User:Skizzerz/VE on 1.23

This page details my odyssey of getting Extension:VisualEditor up-and-running on the 1.23 tarball version (rc0 at the time of this writing).

Environment

 * 1) To ensure a clean slate, I installed a fresh Ubuntu 14.04 Server VM. I then set up the LAMP environment by installing the following packages: apache2, mysql-server, php5, php5-gd, php5-mysql, php5-intl, php5-apcu.
 * 2) Since VirtualBox had the network type set to NAT, I also needed to setup a port forwarding rule so that I could access the webserver from the host machine to better simulate an external user hitting the website.
 * 3) I then downloaded the MediaWiki 1.23 tarball (release candidate 0 as of the time of this writing), extracted, and installed it using default settings.