User:Revansx/meza/Installing MEZA 35.x on a local Rock Linux 8 VM from scratch

This procedure is meant to show users how to they can test Mediawiki via Meza without actually needing a dedicated physical computer.

= Establish a RL8 VM using VirtualBox =

1.4 - Start the new VM and install RL8

 * 1) Start the RL8 VM by clicking the "RL8" VM in the left menu and then clicking the "Start" button in the top menu (big green arrow)
 * 2) Short start-up diagnostics
 * 3) Rocky Linux 8 install screens
 * 4) Using your keyboard arrows, select "Install Rocky Linux 8" and press "Enter"
 * 5) watch more loading messages
 * 6) Configure ROCKLINUX8 INSTALLATION SCREEN
 * 7) Choose "English" -> "English (United States)" and click "Continue"
 * 8) In the "INSTALLATION SUMMARY" window:
 * 9) Click "SOFTWARE SELECTION"
 * 10) select "Workstation" (no other options)
 * 11) Click "DONE"
 * 12) Click "INSTALLTION DESTINATION"
 * 13) Click "DONE" (this selects the default option of automatic partitioning of the only available disk)
 * 14) Click "Root Password"
 * 15) set root password to " "
 * 16) click twice to confirm such a simple password (don't worry this is just a VM)
 * 17) Click "NETWORK & HOST NAME"
 * 18) Click the right side toggle button to enable ethernet adapter
 * 19) make sure the network adapter says "Connected"
 * 20) click "DONE"
 * 21) Click "Begin Installation"
 * 22) Screen switches to "Installation Progress"
 * 23) wait while RL8 is installed on the VM from the RL8 DVD iso file
 * 24) when it completes:
 * 25) * (virtually) eject the Rocky Linux 8 DVD.iso disk from the virtual optical drive
 * 26) **Oracle VM Virtual Box top level menu
 * 27) ***Devices
 * 28) ****Optical Drives
 * 29) *****Remove disk from virtual drive
 * 30) ******click "Force Unmount"
 * 31) Click "REBOOT"

STOP - CONGRATULATIONS
''' Congratulations!! - Your Rocky Linux 8 VM is finally set-up '''

Be sure to CLONE this system using VBox before proceeding to install MEZA

'''Why? - All of the the preceding steps are rather time consuming and if you ever want to set-up a fresh new VM to test something, you'll appreciate the ability to just start with a clone of this system.'''

=2.0 - Establish a Clone of your new VM for testing Meza=

2.1 - Clone the new RH8 system
= 3.0 - Test Meza =

3.2 - Install Meza on the RL8 Clone VM
At this point.. you should have a fully installed and fully updated Rocky Linux 8 Linux Workstation with all the VBox Guest Additions installed.

Now its time to install Meza 😎 ..

'''Important!!! -''' Using a fresh new clone of a completely clean new Rocky Linux 8 VM VM (such as the RL8 Clone VM you just created in the previous step, right????!) .. perform the following steps:

If Meza crashes or if any of these steps produces a warning or error, please let us know in the talk page so we can address it.

3.3 - Visit and test your new Meza Site and Demo Wiki
Do these steps after Meza deploys successfully Start making and editing pages and storing data and uploading files.

'''Gratz! .. You are done.'''

If anything in the Mediawiki application does not work produces warning or errors, please let us know in the talk page so we can address it.

If you wish to help us develop MEZA, Click HERE

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