MediaWiki

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Warning Warning: These instructions were only tested on Debian. It will probably work for other Linux distributions, but you might need to adapt the provided instructions.

Install Mediawiki

Warning Warning: Debian packages are currently unmaintained and outdated. This guide will install mediawiki fro source. For your security, don't forget to follow upstream releases and update your installation.

Get source

cd /var/www
curl https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.26/mediawiki-1.26.2.tar.gz | tar xz
chown -R www-data: mediawiki*

Configure Dns

This guide assume that you are using a dedicated subdomain for your wiki like https://wiki.example.com. Don't forget to point that domain to your webserver.

Configure Nginx

create certificate

update nginx config

/mw-config

chown root:www-data /etc/mediawiki/LocalSettings.php
chmod 640 /etc/mediawiki/LocalSettings.php