MediaWiki at Strato

Manual Installation

1. ssh [email protected] and

   • Create folder /mediawiki
   • Extract MediaWiki 1.28.1 into mediawiki

2. In Strato's admin console:

   • Create a new SQL database and set a password. Store credentials in LastPass.
   • In Domains / Domainverwaltung, map domain wiki.eltern-sgh.de to /mediawiki (Strato lists this as "Umleitung: (Intern) /mediawiki/")
   • In Datenbanken und Webspace / PHP-Version einstellen, switch the PHP version to 7.1

3. Generate and upload LocalSettings.php (see ci).

4. Follow the MediaWiki install wizard:

   • Create a MediaWiki admin account. Store credentials in LastPass.
   • Set User rights profile to Authorized editors only
   • Upload the logo

Restore

Database

Pipe the most recent snapshot into the new DB that we use for restore. This is stored as script at ~/bin/restore-mediawiki-snapshot.sh.

Filesystem

1. Untar the backup file (grab the latest from ~/backup/mediawiki_*.tar.gz) to restored-mediawiki
2. Edit restored-mediawiki/LocalSettings.php:

• Change database settings $wgDBname, $wgDBuser and $wgDBpassword to point to the restored DB

• Change $wgSitename to something like "Restored Copy"

• Change $wgServer to "http://restored-wiki.eltern-sgh.de";`

• Set the wiki to read-only with this message:

  $wgReadOnly = 'Restore-Test; nur Lesen möglich';

If this is a real disaster recovery and not just a fire drill, just restore to the original database credentials and do not modify the LocalSettings.php after untaring it.

Compatibility

Force Cantao to PHP 5.6

The version of Cantao that is currently in use does not work with PHP 7. Work around this by prepending geb3/.htaccess with the following statement:

# Force Strato's PHP to 5.6
AddType application/x-httpd-php56 .php
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