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Install Parsoid/PHP instead

Hello all, I have been trying to set up VisualEditor for two days now because of how much a nightmare this is and I have finally gotten to this point where I need to download parsoid. So I am on a shared server which means that I can't use sudo or apt-get so I need to use the development section of this article. However when I try to put in the command "yum install git npm" it responds with the folling error message:

CRITICAL:yum.cli:Config Error: Error accessing file for config file:///etc/yum.conf

The thing is I have absolutely no clue how to solve this and I am getting pretty sick and tired of dealing with this stuff so please any advice would help. I am using an SSH through my terminal, Bluehost as my hosting service, and cPanel as the management system.

Tip: join us on MediaWiki_on_Discord for help.

I don't know your hosting provider, so this might not be helpful, but anyway: yum is also a package manager just like apt-get, so that might be the reason why you can't use it.

As you're running that command I assume git and npm are not installed... you can skip git by uploading through ssh/scp. npm: I assume you can install it by hand in your user folder, or you might not even need it if you are running the latest parsoid: it's been ported to php recently. However, I haven't used that yet, so I suggest you asking this on discord. Hope that helps.

I am sorry I did not mention this earlier but the hosting service I use is Bluehost. the hosting plan that I got is Shared hosting and I use cPanel for file management. from what I have done so far git works, but npm and yum do not (because they are not installed).

As Aron said, yum is another package manager and if not installed may not be appropriate for your system.

You can download nodejs binaries directly from https://nodejs.org/en/download/ that comes with npm

But, support for Parsoid/JS on shared hosting has been lacking

You might have better luck setting up Parsoid/PHP, https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid/PHP

Using Parsoid/PHP is a good idea. It's part of MediaWiki since 1.35 (October 2019), but it's not enabled by default (that's expected to change around or after June 2020). You find it in `vendor/wikimedia/parsoid` folder installed as a package by composer.

The mediawiki page describes the configuration, but there are some confusing bits. I've just recently set it up for myself so if you need help, I can be to your service (preferably on discord, but here too) @TheSplatGuy.

Feel free to update the page to clarify the confusing bits :)