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Setting up an Ubuntu VM for MW development

I had to do this so many times (setting up an Ubuntu VM using VirtualBox, then installing and configuring MediaWiki on it to resemble the WMF environment, just to start working on a patch on MW or an extension) that I felt like I might as well just document the commands somewhere so I can copy-paste them the next time!

Install Oh-my-zsh!
sudo apt-get install zsh

wget https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/raw/master/tools/install.sh -O - | zsh

chsh -s `which zsh`

Log out and log back in
Install LAMP, and git stuff
sudo apt-get install apache2 mysql-server php-mysql php-mbstring php-xml curl git libapache2-mod-php php-mcrypt python-pip ssh composer

sudo service apache2 restart
Configure git
git config --global user.email "you@example.com"

git config --global user.name "Your Name"
Install git-review
sudo pip install git-review
Create SSH private and public keys
cd; ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "you@example.com"

Store the public key on https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/settings/ssh-keys
Clone mediawiki into /var/www/html
sudo chmod 777 /var/www/html

cd /var/www/html

git clone ssh://huji@gerrit.wikimedia.org:29418/mediawiki/core.git .

composer update
Clone the Vector skin:
cd skins

git clone ssh://huji@gerrit.wikimedia.org:29418/mediawiki/skins/Vector.git .
Add wfLoadSkin( 'Vector' ); to the end of LocalSettings.php file
Create the CentralAuth database
cd extensions

git clone ssh://huji@gerrit.wikimedia.org:29418/mediawiki/extensions/CentralAuth.git

cd CentralAuth

mysql -u root -p then ...

CREATE DATABASE centralauth; USE centralauth; SOURCE central-auth.sql; quit
Install MediaWiki; follow this: https://gist.github.com/Huji/a41e3d59ac4c43f245083024dbf36203