MediaWiki-Vagrant



MediaWiki-Vagrant is a portable MediaWiki development environment. It consists of a set of configuration scripts for Vagrant and VirtualBox that automate the creation of a virtual machine that runs MediaWiki.

The virtual machine that MediaWiki-Vagrant creates makes it easy to learn about, modify, and improve MediaWiki's code: useful debugging information is displayed by default, and various developer tools are set up specifically for inspecting and interacting with MediaWiki code, including a powerful debugger and an interactive interpreter. Best of all, because the configuration is automated and contained in a virtual environment, mistakes are easy to undo.

Quick start
  Get VirtualBox  Get Vagrant Get the code and create your machine:  $ git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/p/mediawiki/vagrant.git $ cd vagrant $ vagrant up 

Usage
When you first run, Vagrant will fetch a system image and the requisite software for running a MediaWiki development environment. This takes around 10-15 minutes on a broadband connection.

When it exits, browse to http://localhost:8080/ to find the main page of your MediaWiki instance. see the main page of your MediaWiki instance (the admin password is vagrant).

To access a command shell on your virtual environment, run  from the root mediawiki-vagrant directory or any of its subdirectories. (Vagrant knows which instance you are referring to by searching for a file named 'Vagrantfile' in the current directory and its parent directories.)

From there, run  to interactively evaluate PHP code in a MediaWiki context, or   to get an authenticated SQL shell on your wiki's database.

Next steps
 /Installation details /Troubleshooting /Customizing /Advance usage 