About this wiki

Config

Default install plus:

• Anonymou edit disabled.
• ConfirmAccount added.
• Extension:GraphViz added
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Google_Analytics_Integration

More:

$wgFileExtensions = array( 'png', 'gif', 'jpg', 'jpeg', 'pdf', 'txt', 'vsd', 'ico' );
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false;
$wgNamespacesWithSubpages = array_fill(0, 200, true);

$wgAutoSitemap["freq"] = "daily";

require_once "$IP/extensions/googleAnalytics/googleAnalytics.php";
// Replace xxxxxxx-x with YOUR GoogleAnalytics UA number
// $wgGoogleAnalyticsAccount = 'UA-xxxxxxx-x';
// Add HTML code for any additional web analytics (can be used alone or with $wgGoogleAnalyticsAccount)
$wgGoogleAnalyticsOtherCode = '<script type="text/javascript" src="https://analytics.example.com/tracking.js"></script>';

$wgFavicon = "/images/8/83/Favico.ico";

Upload config

image dir security:

        <Directory /var/www/html/images>
                Options -Indexes
        </Directory>

as per https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Configuring_file_uploads

/etc/apache2/php.ini

from ( thedefault ):

post_max_size = 8M
upload_max_filesize = 2M
max_file_uploads = 20

to:

post_max_size = 20M
upload_max_filesize = 20M
max_file_uploads = 10

Todo

• read up on http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:FAQ#How_can_I_create_Interwiki_Links_in_my_Wiki.3F (want to play nice with other wikis, no familiar wheels here.
• install semantic wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki and do some inline queries.

• Clean up old extentsions.
• Install https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RottenLinks

Log

June 2018

• extention updates
• add words install
• AMP extentions setup
• structured data ( as per G webmster tools recommend)

October 2019 update

certbot cert expired on amazon2 instance.

I could not for the life of me get the new cerbot client to work on amazon 2 . A bit of googling showed me that I was not alone and that others are having similar problems. so in a classic IAC style , I _just_ swapped my OS to ubuntu 18 and it worked.

note that there are some thing s that still needs work , for example i just learn that google PageSpeed service is no longer, the software ( apache module ) still exists.

and I need to install it https://www.modpagespeed.com/doc/download

April 2020

certbot autorenewal

12 23 *   *   *     /usr/bin/certbot renew

October 2022

Ubuntu 18 -> 22

media wiki 1.35 -> 1.38

Extension intall

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Google_Analytics_Integration
• version 3.0.1 (2017-10-29)
• https://extdist.wmflabs.org/dist/extensions/googleAnalytics-REL1_38-253c5cb.tar.gz

steps:

How to Backup

Two parts: files and DB

/root/backupwiki.sh

#!/bin/sh
cd /var/www/www.quadratic.net/secure
NOW=`date +%a.%d.%b.%Y`
tar zcf /data/backup/athena/athena.wiki.file.backup.$NOW.tgz wiki && echo wiki file backup done || echo wiki file backup failed

mysqldump --host=localhost --user=wikiuser --password=XXX wikidb2 >  /data/backup/athena/athena.wiki.sql.backup.$NOW.sql  && echo wiki db backup done || echo wiki db backup failed
gzip -f /data/backup/athena/athena.wiki.sql.backup.$NOW.sql

crontab -l

12  23 * * * /root/backupwiki.sh

further reading

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_architecture_document/How_and_why
• http://highscalability.com/wikimedia-architecture
• quadratic.net history