The Wikimedia foundation Wiki.

CREATE DATABASE mediawiki CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci;
CREATE USER 'mediawiki'@'X.X.X.X' IDENTIFIED BY 'mediawiki';
GRANT ALL ON mediawiki.* TO 'mediawiki'@'X.X.X.X' WITH GRANT OPTION;
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

NB It's important to correctly quote the username and address as shown above.

Adapt this site configuration for your needs and update LocalSetttings.php later in this guide for URL rewriting.

$wgScriptPath = "/w";
$wgArticlePath = "/wiki/$1";
$wgUsePathInfo = true;

apt install composer
composer -V
Composer version 2.5.5 2023-03-21 11:50:05

apt install php-pear php-dev
pecl install APCu
echo "extension=apcu.so" >> /etc/php/8.2/mods-available/local.ini
ln -sf /etc/php/8.2/mods-available/local.ini /etc/php/8.2/fpm/conf.d/10-local.ini

mkdir -p /var/www/htdocs/www.example.com
cd /var/www/htdocs/www.example.com
wget "https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.43/mediawiki-1.43.0.zip"
unzip mediawiki-1.43.0.zip
mv mediawiki-1.43.0 w
chown -R www-data:www-data w

Visit the wiki site and follow the installation procedure which will conclude with a download of the LocalSettings.php file.

It's recommended to choose “en - English” as the installation language.

NB If the site crashes then it may be due to this bug.

cd ./mediawiki-1.45.1/vendor/wikimedia/parsoid/
wget https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/changes/mediawiki%2Fservices%2Fparsoid~1220366/revisions/4/patch?zip
unzip 2db95b1.diff.zip
patch -p1 < 2db95b1.diff
cd ../../../
composer update -a

Edit the settings file and upload to the server and installation is complete.

#$wgGroupPermissions['*']['read'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false;
wfLoadExtension('Nuke');

If you didn't choose “en - English” as the installation language you can change it after installation.

For example, during installation the site language may have been set to “en-gb” (or something else) and it's preferable to use the Mediawiki default language of “en”.

Add the following to LocalSettings.php

$wgLanguageCode = "en";

Now reset the language to “en”.

echo 'MediaWiki\MediaWikiServices::getInstance()->getMessageCache()->clear()' | php maintenance/run.php eval
php maintenance/run.php userOptions.php language --old en-gb --new en

To disable language selection (from “en”) in user preferences, add the following to LocalSettings.php

$wgHiddenPrefs[] = 'language';

cd extensions
git clone https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-UniversalLanguageSelector UniversalLanguageSelector
chown -R www-data:www-data UniversalLanguageSelector

wfLoadExtension('UniversalLanguageSelector');

Special pages → Account management → Bot passwords.

wgLanguageCode

DeleteBatch

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