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=== Setting up the Wiki === | === Setting up the Wiki === | ||
| + | #Download the [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Installation Mediawiki] installation. Current stable release is 1.17. | ||
| + | #Browse to http://serveraddress/wiki/installation/folder/ | ||
| + | #Click the setup link to start installation. | ||
| + | #Choose your language. | ||
| + | #The next page lists what Mediawiki has found out about your server. The following warnings were found on ours, followed by why we could ignore them. | ||
| + | ##<b>Warning:</b> SQLite is compiled without the FTS3 module, search features will be unavailable on this backend. | ||
| + | ##*We ignored this because we are not using SQLite for our backend. We simply use MySQL. | ||
| + | ##<b>Warning:</b> Could not find eAccelerator, APC, XCache or WinCache. Object caching is not enabled. | ||
| + | ##*This would speed up our installation, but is something we do not care to bother with at the moment. | ||
| + | ##<b>Warning:</b> The intl PECL extension is not available to handle Unicode normalization, falling back to slow pure-PHP implementation. | ||
| + | ##* Right now, we do not run a high enough traffic site to warrant my bothering with this for too long. At some point in the future, I may look into this, but for now, I'm ignoring it. | ||
| + | #Read the terms, accept them, and move on to database setup. | ||
| + | #On this page, we set it up as: | ||
| + | ##Database host: <tt>localhost</tt> | ||
| + | ##Database name: <tt>wiki</tt> | ||
| + | ##Database table prefix: left blank | ||
| + | ##Database username and password: We set these to something that made sense to us. | ||
| + | #On the next page for web access, we left it the same as the account created last page. | ||
| + | #We set the Storage Engine to <tt>InnoDB</tt> and the encoding to Binary. | ||
| + | #Name your wiki (ours is Physiki), leave the project namespace the same, and set up your initial Administrator account. Don't forget to set the e-mail. | ||
| + | #We then chose to keep going with configuration. On the next page, we chose to do "Account Creation Required," and "GNU Free Documentation License 1.3 or Later," although this comes down to personal preference or the needs of your site. | ||
| + | #We set the return e-mail address to webmaster@ticc.mines.edu, since we're going to set up e-mail services on our server, soon. | ||
| + | #File uploads is disabled for us for a moment until we change it through settings files. We did not enable the instant commons option since we do not use it. | ||
== Extra Notes == | == Extra Notes == | ||
== External Links == | == External Links == | ||
Revision as of 00:53, 23 June 2011
This page documents setting up the servers running TICC's wiki, forum, and InkSurvey.
Contents |
Preliminaries (Definitions/Notes/etc.)
Hardware
Software
Packages
Installed Packages
| Name | Package Name | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| Apache Web Server | httpd | |
| Open SSL | openssl mod_ssl | Provide SSL support on Apache |
| Postfix Mail Server | postfix | |
| PHP | php53 php53-mysql php53-common php53-cli php53-pdo php53-gd | |
| SSH Server | openssh | Remote administration |
| Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) | net-snmp | |
| MySQL | mysql | |
| Perl | perl | Needed by Clonezilla |
| Perl Modules | perl-Digest-SHA1 | Needed by Clonezilla |
| Patch | patch | Merge diff changes with this program |
Other programs
yum install sudo wget make mlocate nano zip unzip man
Configuration File Changes
Setup
Making Bootable Media with a Kickstart file
mkisofs -o /home/fedora-kickstart.iso -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -J -R -V “Fedora” .
Boot the right kernel
wget http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/centos/5/os/x86_64/isolinux/vmlinuz wget http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/centos/5/os/x86_64/isolinux/initrd.img
title Install CentOS
root (hd0,0)
kernel /install/vmlinuz ks=http://ticc.mines.edu/ks.cfg
initrd /install/initrd.img
Setting up the Wiki
- Download the Mediawiki installation. Current stable release is 1.17.
- Browse to http://serveraddress/wiki/installation/folder/
- Click the setup link to start installation.
- Choose your language.
- The next page lists what Mediawiki has found out about your server. The following warnings were found on ours, followed by why we could ignore them.
- Warning: SQLite is compiled without the FTS3 module, search features will be unavailable on this backend.
- We ignored this because we are not using SQLite for our backend. We simply use MySQL.
- Warning: Could not find eAccelerator, APC, XCache or WinCache. Object caching is not enabled.
- This would speed up our installation, but is something we do not care to bother with at the moment.
- Warning: The intl PECL extension is not available to handle Unicode normalization, falling back to slow pure-PHP implementation.
- Right now, we do not run a high enough traffic site to warrant my bothering with this for too long. At some point in the future, I may look into this, but for now, I'm ignoring it.
- Warning: SQLite is compiled without the FTS3 module, search features will be unavailable on this backend.
- Read the terms, accept them, and move on to database setup.
- On this page, we set it up as:
- Database host: localhost
- Database name: wiki
- Database table prefix: left blank
- Database username and password: We set these to something that made sense to us.
- On the next page for web access, we left it the same as the account created last page.
- We set the Storage Engine to InnoDB and the encoding to Binary.
- Name your wiki (ours is Physiki), leave the project namespace the same, and set up your initial Administrator account. Don't forget to set the e-mail.
- We then chose to keep going with configuration. On the next page, we chose to do "Account Creation Required," and "GNU Free Documentation License 1.3 or Later," although this comes down to personal preference or the needs of your site.
- We set the return e-mail address to webmaster@ticc.mines.edu, since we're going to set up e-mail services on our server, soon.
- File uploads is disabled for us for a moment until we change it through settings files. We did not enable the instant commons option since we do not use it.
