ARPSE Wiki Notes

Software configuration for commodity x86/86_64 linux art research platform.

Prerequisites

Assume Fedora 27 or 28. See base document for full software stack.

Wiki Setup

Use mediawiki packages.

dnf install -y mediawiki mediawiki-wikicalendar php-pecl-apcu php-pecl-apcu-bc

Notes for the platform are here, and the file /usr/share/doc/mediawiki/README.RPM.

Use /var/www/mediawiki/parse as the installation directory.

mkdir /var/www/mediawiki/parse
mw-createinstance /var/www/mediawiki/parse
chown -R apache:apache /var/www/mediawiki/parse
chcon -R system_u:object_r:httpd_sys_content_t:s0 /var/www/mediawiki/parse

and then edit the /etc/httpd/conf.d/mediawiki.conf file as

DocumentRoot /var/www/mediawiki/parse
Alias /skins /usr/share/mediawiki/skins

Next, configure the wiki database, called parse_wiki_db.

mysqladmin create parse_wiki_db -u root -p

Make a system database user parsewiki, give it access to the wiki’s database.

sudo mysql -D mysql -u root -p;

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON parse_wiki_db.* TO 'parsewiki'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'yer-password-here';

FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

QUIT;

This should be enough setup to start the web-based wiki installation. Go to

http://localhost

And finish the setup. Some of the remaining configuration: wiki administrator user name and password, license terms for the wiki content, open or private wiki access, etc.

Skin and theme the wiki.