Manual:Running MediaWiki on ALT Linux

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Introduction

This article gives instructions for people who want to run MediaWiki on a ALT Linux system.

Prerequisites: Apache, MySQL and PHP

Versions of packages in ALT Linux branch/4.0 are ok for MediaWiki.

Just do a

 apt-get install MySQL-server MySQL-client
 apt-get install httpd
 apt-get install apache-mod_php5 php5-dom

ImageMagic and librsvg are also available:

 apt-get install ImageMagick librsvg

You can use GraphicsMagick instead of ImageMagick - former has less dependencies (in particular, X11 is not required):

 apt-get install GraphicsMagick-ImageMagick-compat

PHP security configuration

PHP in ALT Linux has quite secure defaults, so change the following settings in /etc/php/<version>/apache-mod_php/php.ini:

• safe_mode - turn it off
• memory_limit - raise to 20M
• suhosin.executor.func.blacklist, suhosin.executor.eval.blacklist, disable_functions - remove 'system', 'chdir', 'popen' and 'passthru' from those blacklists.
• remove 'exec', 'shell_exec', 'chdir' from blacklists

Page editing will break on very long pages unless you change the limit in /etc/php/<version>/apache-mod_php/php.d/suhosin.ini:

• suhosin.post.max_value_length - increase it to 650000

Installation

After relaxing PHP security settings just use generic installation instructions.