Manual:Running MediaWiki on Gentoo Linux

= 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.

emerge imagemagick (This is not required but you may wish to have it. ImageMagick can also make thumbnails if you do not want to include gd [a library] support in php. I think LaTeX support also needs this.)

emerge dev-lang/ocaml (will be required if you want LaTeX support)

required packages... remember to -p them first! if you already have them, you probably don't need them again!. For exampe type 'emerge -p mysql' to see what would happen emerge mysql -uD emerge apache -uD 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 'emerge php ' instead of '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) emerge mod_php -uD

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 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 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

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= 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 baby! (maybe not the f... I don't know what it does, but this is black magic unix crap!) (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

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

= References = http://www.doctaur.com/dtdocs/databases/mysql-manual/table-of-contents.html

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/index.html