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Revision as of 14:31, 26 November 2004
Prerequisites
It is possible to have connection problems when you emerge something.
Try to add one line for mirror list into your /etc/make.conf like following: GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/gentoo/ http://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/"
You can get possible mirros and test them by accessing http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/mirrors.xml
- Optional, suggested
emerge sync emerge ufed -uD
Note: ufed is the Gentoo Linux USE flags editor ufed (check useflags, you'll need mod_php, gd if you want thumbnails) the option -uD means update and check the dependence tree thoroughly.
- Needed for support of mathematical formulas
emerge imagemagick
(ImageMagick can also make thumbnails if you do not want to include gd [a library] support in php). If you have done this it is a good ideea to add suport for imagemagick in the USE flags.
To add LaTeX support do:
emerge tetex
After that you should see the programs latex and dvips available on the command line.
Finally do:
emerge dev-lang/ocaml
You can find additional info here about installing support for mathematical formulas in mediwiki.
- Required packages...
Remember to -p them first! if you already have them, you probably don't need them again!. For example type 'emerge -p mysql' to see what would happen
emerge mysql -uD emerge apache -uD USE="session" emerge php -uD
Note: I encountered a problem when merge php, ERROR: media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.5336-r4 failed. I checked it out from http://forums.gentoo.org/ and found it is not a simple problem. I suggest to use 'USE="session" emerge php ' instead of 'USE="session" emerge php -uD'
(check useflags with ufed. php has many use flags options.. use emerge -pv php to see them all.) NOTE!! by default, some (if not all) php ebuilds disable sessions, which will break logins. add sessions by appending 'session' to the mod_php USE line in /etc/portage/package.use) (probably required) (so try the following)
USE="session" emerge mod_php -uD
Another NOTE: you can also add 'session' in the USE flags permenently with ufed. I have not encountered yet problems with this setting. Also make sure that mysql suport in added in USE when emerging php (stating the obvious but it doesn't hurt :))
Configure Apache
start web server by
apache2
Stop it by
apache2ctl stop
(get services going by default)
rc-update add apache2 default
(turn on services)
/etc/init.d/apache2 start
Add PHP Support
apache2 uses modules to dynamically load and unload extra functionalities. php support is one of them. There is no mod_php module in apache server after the default installation. We need to add mod_php into apache. Edit the configuration file of apache2
easy way to add php support
vi /etc/conf.d/apache2
#APACHE2_OPTS="-D SSL" APACHE2_OPTS="-D SSL -D PHP4"
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart
complex way to do things
vi /etc/apache2/conf/apache2.conf
You will see module list in apache2.conf
LoadModule access_module modules/mod_access.so LoadModule auth_module modules/mod_auth.so LoadModule auth_anon_module modules/mod_auth_anon.so LoadModule auth_dbm_module modules/mod_auth_dbm.so
Add mod_php into it by one more line:
LoadModule php4_module extramodules/libphp4.so
Consequently add .php file name handling capability by adding
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php AddType application/x-httpd-php .phtml AddType application/x-httpd-php .php3 AddType application/x-httpd-php .php4 AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps
save apache2.conf and restart apache server
apache2ctl restart
or
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart
We now have an apache server with php support.
Configure MySQL
Refer to http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MySQL_config for details
Intialize the mysql database
mysql_install_db
Start the server
mysqld_safe
Test it
mysqlshow
Let it run automatically each time your machine is powered up
cd /etc/init.d cp /usr/sbin/mysqld . rc-update add mysqld default
Possibility of an ebuild for mediawiki!
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37894
Talk:Running_MediaWiki_on_Gentoo_Linux#Possibility of an ebuild for mediawiki
Get Mediawiki
(from the SourceForge page, it took me forever to find!) http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=34373
Unpack
using tar -xvvzf filename
(don't put it into your webroot, alias the directory, conditional to php being operational)
cp it into /var/www/localhost if you like, where the default www root(htdocs) is located.
Set Permissions
user should be apache, group should be apache. You should not give anybody access to this directory.. or at least LocalSettings.conf as it contains passwords! Just let user apache do it.
Mediawiki 1.3.2 needs to write confi directory during initialization.
cd /var/www/localhost/mediawiki chmod a+w config
Alias Directory
edit your /etc/apache2/conf ... commonapache2.conf? file apache configuration
You do NOT want mediawiki in a world readable directory, when php isn't running, so this is usefull: (this is using apache2, so the php4 module is called sapi_apache2.c )
<IfModule sapi_apache2.c> Alias /mediawiki/ /var/www/localhost/mediawiki-1.3.3/ Alias /mediawiki /var/www/localhost/mediawiki-1.3.3 Alias /wiki_persistant/ /var/www/localhost/wiki_persistant/ Alias /wiki_persistant /var/www/localhost/wiki_persistant <Directory /var/www/localhost/wiki_persistant/> Order deny,allow Allow from all </Directory> <Directory /var/www/localhost/mediawiki-1.3.3/> Options +includes Order deny,allow Allow from all # AllowOverride All </Directory>
Setup Rewrite Rules
I have no idea how to do these, see Rewrite Rules
Restart apache
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart
Run the Configuration Web Page
yes, you have to config that directory manually...
MediaWikis running on Gentoo
- http://gentoo-wiki.com A little surprise for me when I found it. :-)
- http://escargot.icehouse.net/mediawiki (the page upgrade from 1.2 to 1.3 was origionally written with a gentoo box) and this user is silly enough to be willing to provide _limited_ tech support if you bother to User:AaronPeterson (he prefers telephone, because he types too much!)
- http://lnx101.parl.clemson.edu
- http://www.securityforest.com SecurityForest.com is a collaboratively edited Forest consisting of Trees which anyone can contribute to. SecurityForest's trees are specific security repositories that any security professional should be interested in. SecurityForest.com is a collection of repositories for the community - by the community. In other words - the updating, modifying and improving can be done by anyone in the community.
References
http://www.doctaur.com/dtdocs/databases/mysql-manual/table-of-contents.html