MediaWiki Extension SyntaxHighlight

External

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SyntaxHighlight

Internal

• MediaWiki Native Installation | Install_Extensions

Installation

Download from https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:ExtensionDistributor/SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi

Expand in /var/www/<mediawiki-dir>/extensions:

tar -xzf SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi-REL1_35-6bd7a93.tar.gz -C /var/www/mediawiki-1.35.0/extensions

Add the following line at the bottom of LocalSettings.php

wfLoadExtension( 'SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi' );

Set execute permissions for the pygmentize binary:

chmod a+x /var/www/<mediawiki-dir>/extensions/SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi/pygments/pygmentize

Install Python 3 (python3 must be available in PATH):

Python Installation

Restart httpd:

systemctl restart httpd

Installation Verification

Navigate to Special pages → Version and ensure the extension was installed.