MediaWiki

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I'm using the [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki MediaWiki] software from the WikiMedia Foundation to power my wikis. MediaWiki is ~~written in PHP5, and thus precludes~~ the use ~~of a multi-threaded version of~~ [~~http~~://~~www~~.apache.org ~~Apache~~].

I'm using the [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki MediaWiki] software from the WikiMedia Foundation to power my wikis. '''The following information is largely [[Debian]]-specific.'''

==Use with Apache==

By default (at least on Debian), MediaWiki's PHP is run within Apache's PHP module <tt>mod_php</tt>. This can only be safely run under the multiprocess [https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/prefork.html mpm_prefork] paradigm. To use the (generally superior) [https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/worker.html mpm_worker] or [https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/event.html mpm_event] modules, one ought employ [https://www.php.net/manual/en/install.fpm.php php-fpm], the PHP "fast process manager" (note that FastCGI is also a thing. I don't know much about it).

==Installing MediaWiki==

~~'''The following information is largely [[Debian]]-specific.'''~~

* Have handy the administrator account/password for your MySQL installation.

** I advise you to install MySQL ''before'' MediaWiki, not as a single <tt>apt</tt> step.

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* To allow files larger than the default 2M to be uploaded, edit the value of <tt>upload_max_filesize</tt> in <tt>/etc/php.ini</tt>

** This requires a web server restart to take effect

===System strings===

Most strings in e.g. sidebars can be edited in the Special:AllMessages area. To see what message key a string corresponds to, add "uselang=qqx" to a URI, e.g. https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php?title=User:Dank&uselang=qqx.

==Moving a wiki==

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-I'm using the [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki MediaWiki] software from the WikiMedia Foundation to power my wikis. MediaWiki is written in PHP5, and thus precludes the use of a multi-threaded version of [http://www.apache.org Apache].
+I'm using the [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki MediaWiki] software from the WikiMedia Foundation to power my wikis. '''The following information is largely [[Debian]]-specific.'''
+==Use with Apache==
+By default (at least on Debian), MediaWiki's PHP is run within Apache's PHP module <tt>mod_php</tt>. This can only be safely run under the multiprocess [https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/prefork.html mpm_prefork] paradigm. To use the (generally superior) [https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/worker.html mpm_worker] or [https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/event.html mpm_event] modules, one ought employ [https://www.php.net/manual/en/install.fpm.php php-fpm], the PHP "fast process manager" (note that FastCGI is also a thing. I don't know much about it).
 ==Installing MediaWiki==
-'''The following information is largely [[Debian]]-specific.'''
 * Have handy the administrator account/password for your MySQL installation.
 ** I advise you to install MySQL ''before'' MediaWiki, not as a single <tt>apt</tt> step.
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 * To allow files larger than the default 2M to be uploaded, edit the value of <tt>upload_max_filesize</tt> in <tt>/etc/php.ini</tt>
 ** This requires a web server restart to take effect
+===System strings===
+Most strings in e.g. sidebars can be edited in the Special:AllMessages area. To see what message key a string corresponds to, add "uselang=qqx" to a URI, e.g. https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php?title=User:Dank&uselang=qqx.
 ==Moving a wiki==