Mediawiki installation/Version 1.23.8

MediaWiki version 1.23.8 is a long term support version.

Architecture

• see http://biowikifarm.net/meta/Mediawiki_installation#Cloning_a_new_wiki
• have a Long Term Support (LTS) Version of MediaWiki
• install extensions for a wiki version

 MW_WMF_CLONE                                        /usr/share/mw-wmf-clone
 ├ core (Git) ─────────git-archive-export───┐        /usr/share/mw-wmf-clone/core
 └ extensions (Git) ───git-archive-export─→ ) ─┐     /usr/share/mw-wmf-clone/extensions
                                            │  │
   WIKI_SOURCE_LTS (e.g. REL1_23)           │  │
   ┌ core-files (local git archive-export) ←┘  │     /usr/share/mediawiki23
   ├ extensions (mixed:                        │     /usr/share/mediawiki23/extensions
   │   svn biowikifarm, (repo: as svn-post-commit)
   │   git-archive-export)  ←──────────────────┘
   │   some svn extensions from MediaWiki            Extension:StringFunctions
   ↓   
   │ WEB_WIKI (as LTS web Wiki)
   ├─→ core-files (linked)                           /var/www/v-infoflora/d/
   └─→ extensions (linked)                           /var/www/v-infoflora/d/extensions
         composer-extensions must be dealt with      /var/www/v-infoflora/d/composer.json
         on level WEB_WIKI individually

Git short help

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 git checkout <branch>
 git checkout <tag-name>
 git checkout -b <create-new-branch>
 git branch -r|--remotes       # list all branches
 git tag -l|--list             # list all tags
 git tag -l|--list <pattern>   # list tags matching the pattern
 git archive <tag-or-branch-or-tree-ish>   # extract an archive
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Script(ed) installation

Try to install it from scratch and using no template (for the first time)

“Global Variables”

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# set global variables
do_not_install_but_show_dry_run="" # "" or "anything-but-non-empty"
if [ "$do_not_install_but_show_dry_run" != "" ]; then 
  install_notice="DRY RUN (nothing is done)";
else
  install_notice="INSTALL";
fi

git_mw_basedir="/usr/share/mw-wmf-clone"
git_mw_core_source_dir="${git_mw_basedir}/core"
git_mw_extension_source_dir="${git_mw_basedir}/extensions"
git_branch="origin/REL1_23"
git_tag="1.23.8"

v_wiki_folder="./v-infoflora"
v_wiki_sub_folder="" # default ""
web_wiki_script_folder="./d" # default ./w for wiki or web or what ever
web_wiki_config_folder="./mw-config" # default ./mw-config
web_base_dir="/var/www"
# mdo_web_installation="" # "" is false
if [ "${v_wiki_sub_folder}" == "" ];then
  web_wiki_base_dir="${web_base_dir}/${v_wiki_folder}/${web_wiki_script_folder}"
else
  web_wiki_base_dir="${web_base_dir}/${v_wiki_folder}/${v_wiki_sub_folder}/${web_wiki_script_folder}"
fi

mw_LTS_version_source_path="/usr/share/mediawiki23"
mw_LTS_version_source_extension_path="${mw_LTS_version_source_path}/extensions"
# echo "$mw_LTS_version_source_extension_path"

if [ "`command -v realpath`" ]; then web_wiki_base_dir=`realpath "$web_wiki_base_dir"`; fi
printf "\e[47mBase directory of the Wiki will be: \e[42m'%s'\e[0m\n" "${web_wiki_base_dir}"
echo -e "\e[31m$install_notice\e[0m"
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Create Web-Wiki

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# STEP create web wiki directory
if ! [ -d "${web_wiki_base_dir}" ]; then 
  echo -e "\e[47mCreate wiki web base directory (sudo): \e[42m'${web_wiki_base_dir}'\e[0m"
  if [ "$do_not_install_but_show_dry_run" == "" ]; then
    sudo -u root -g mwadmin mkdir --parent "${web_wiki_base_dir}"
    # sudo chown root:mwadmin "${web_wiki_base_dir}" -R
  else
    echo "sudo -u root -g mwadmin mkdir --parent \"${web_wiki_base_dir}\""
  fi
else
  echo -e "\e[47mWiki web base dirsectory exits already: \e[42m'${web_wiki_base_dir}'\e[0m"
fi
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OpenMedia Symlink

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# STEP create symlink to openmedia
if ! [ -d "${web_base_dir}/${v_wiki_folder}/o" ]; then 
  echo -e "\e[47mCreate Openmedia-symlink \e[42m'${web_base_dir}/${v_wiki_folder}/o'\e[47m → \e[42m'../v-species/o'\e[0m"
  if [ "$do_not_install_but_show_dry_run" == "" ]; then
    sudo ln -s "../v-species/o" "${web_base_dir}/${v_wiki_folder}/o"
    sudo mkdir "${web_base_dir}/${v_wiki_folder}/o = Openmedia-symlink"
    # sudo chown root:mwadmin "${web_wiki_base_dir}" -R
  else
    echo "sudo ln -s \"../v-species/o\" \"${web_base_dir}/${v_wiki_folder}/o\";"
  fi
else
  echo -e "\e[47mOpenmedia-symlink exits already \e[42m'${web_base_dir}/${v_wiki_folder}/o'\e[0m"
fi
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