Manual:Huggle/Deploying

Installing huggle on custom MediaWiki installation
Huggle3 can be used with any mediawiki installation, however keep in mind that it was originally created for WMF wikis, which can be considered a large wiki farm.

For this reason huggle is designed mostly for large wiki farms and in order to run it on single small wiki, you may need to slightly tweak it.

This guide is covering installation to any wiki.

Huggle home
There is a special folder in huggle which is called huggle home.

This folder is displayed by huggle in logs when it starts, for example:

Wed Feb 11 10:01:47 2015  Home: /home/petanb/.local/share/data/Wikimedia/Huggle/

This folder contains all configuration files of huggle and we will refer to it as huggle home or $huggle_home in this manual.

It is possible to have multiple homes in order to create a number of separate huggle installations that are running isolated from each other by passing argument --chroot.

If you want to use huggle with WMF wikis and your own wiki farm, it is recommended to create 2 homes for it.

If you only want to use huggle for 1 wiki farm, you can ignore this.

Global wiki
Since huggle is designed to run on wiki farms, it requires 1 wiki that is called "global wiki" this wiki contains global configuration file that has the information about individual wikis.

In case you have only 1 wiki, you will need to make it a global wiki as well, so that you will have both global and local configuration file there.

Configuration files
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Huggle is using 4 configuration files in following order:


 * $huggle_home/Configuration/huggle3.xml Local configuration on pc where it is installed - this file contains URL of global wiki
 * Huggle/Config Global configuration on global wiki which contains information about local wikis
 * Project:Huggle/Config Local configuration on wiki to which you login
 * User:$NAME/huggle3.css User configuration on local wiki

Step by step deployment on 3rd wiki farm
In this scenario we have a wiki farm with 4 wikis on domains:


 * meta.testfarm.wmflabs.org
 * wiki1.testfarm.wmflabs.org
 * wiki2.testfarm.wmflabs.org
 * wiki3.testfarm.wmflabs.org

On meta.testfarm.wmflabs.org/wiki/Huggle/Configuration we need to have following content:

enable-all:true

version:3.1.0 min-version:3.1.0

config:Project:Huggle/Config documentation:https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Huggle feedback:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Huggle/Feedback // Only if you have irc recent change stream for your wikis - this is optional // irc-server:irc.wikimedia.org // irc-server-name:irc.wikimedia.org

user-agent:Huggle/$1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Huggle user-config:Special:Mypage/huggle.css user-config-hg3:Special:Mypage/huggle3.css

// URL of your whitelist server, if you don't have any, keep this commented out // whitelist-server:http://huggle.wmflabs.org/data/

In Project:Huggle/List put

Important xmlrcs_name is name of your wiki as seen by XmlRcs provider, if you don't have this provider, you can remove it from XML entry. Same applies for wl (whitelist id).

Now on each of these 3 wikis, you put this in Project:Huggle/Config

Now all you need is update the huggle local configuration, open $huggle_home/Configuration/huggle3.xml and change



to



Now you can start huggle and hit reload button. It should load a list of local wikis. Since now you should be able to use huggle on your wikis.

Note: If your wiki doesn't support HTTPS you must not check it on login form