TechInc wiki

NOTE: THIS IS AN INITIAL VERSION, DO NOT USE FOR PRODUCTION YET!

Git repository to manage the codebase for the TechInc wiki

This repo uses git flow. If you don't know how it works, you can look here and here

some rules:

1. the development branch is your working branch.
2. A release/$number branch is for staging
3. master branch with a tag is to be used on production

TODO: add more rules

Requirements

In order to run this setup, you need at least the following:

• Centos 7, or Debian Stretch (virtual) machine
• MariaDB 10.3 database server
• PHP 7.1 (production) or 7.2
• A webserver (preferably Nginx)
• Redis for backend caching
• Varnish for frontend-caching
• A frontend webserver for ssl termination

Setting this up is beyond the scope of this repository, but take a look (soon) at our Ansible deployment scripts for the TechInc webserver.

For production deployment

Clone the git repository:

git clone https://github.com/techinc/wiki.techinc.nl

Enter the directory and checkout the latest tagged version:

git checkout $revision

Initialize the submodules:

git submodule update --init --recursive

TODO:

• permissions
• nginx configurations
• files/ directory
• maintenance scripts (sequence etc...)
• some more?.....

SELinux

To run Mediawiki in a RHEL / Centos environment with SELinux enforcing, you need to add the following rules (change /var/www/wiki.techinc.nl/webroot to the location on your system):

semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_content_t '/var/www/wiki.techinc.nl/webroot(/.*)?'
semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_script_exec_t '/var/www/wiki.techinc.nl/webroot/.*\.php?'
semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_script_exec_t '/var/www/wiki.techinc.nl/webroot/includes/.*\.php?'
semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_rw_content_t '/var/www/wiki.techinc.nl/webroot/images(/.*)?'
semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_rw_content_t '/var/www/wiki.techinc.nl/webroot/cache(/.*)?'
semanage restorecon -Rv /var/www
setsebool -P httpd_can_network_connect=1
setsebool -P httpd_setrlimit=1
setsebool -P httpd_can_sendmail=1 #if you want your Mediawiki instance to send mail

TODO:

Add stuff that's still missing

For staging

This is still "Work in Progess"

For development

Note: You will need to install composer on your development environment

To start with a fresh installation, first switch to the development branch:

git checkout develop

Erase the contents of webroot/

rm -rf webroot/*

Next, download the Mediawiki code:

curl https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.30/mediawiki-1.30.0.tar.gz | tar -xz -C webroot --strip-components=1

copy files/composer.local.json to webroot/

run: composer update --no-dev

From the base directory, add the needed submodules:

git submodule add -b REL1_30 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/p/mediawiki/extensions/AdminLinks webroot/extensions/AdminLinks
git submodule add -b REL1_30 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/p/mediawiki/extensions/Arrays webroot/extensions/Arrays
git submodule add -b REL1_30 https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-MsUpload webroot/extensions/MsUpload
git submodule add -b REL1_30 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/p/mediawiki/extensions/MyVariables webroot/extensions/MyVariables
git submodule add -b REL1_30 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/p/mediawiki/extensions/PageImages webroot/extensions/PageImages
git submodule add -b REL1_30 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/p/mediawiki/extensions/Popups webroot/extensions/Popups
git submodule add -b REL1_30 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/p/mediawiki/extensions/SemanticDrilldown.git webroot/extensions/SemanticDrilldown
git submodule add -b REL1_30 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/p/mediawiki/extensions/SemanticInternalObjects webroot/extensions/SemanticInternalObjects
git submodule add -b REL1_30 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/p/mediawiki/extensions/TextExtracts webroot/extensions/TextExtracts
git submodule add -b REL1_30 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/p/mediawiki/extensions/UserMerge webroot/extensions/UserMerge
git submodule add -b REL1_30 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/p/mediawiki/extensions/Widgets webroot/extensions/Widgets
git submodule add https://github.com/mediawiki4intranet/RegexParserFunctions webroot/extensions/RegexParserFunctions
git submodule add https://github.com/jornane/mwSimpleSamlAuth.git webroot/extensions/SimpleSamlAuth

# Initialize recursive submodules
git submodule update --init --recursive

prevent leaking of version numbers in Special:Version:

In webroot/includes/spcecials/SpecialVersion.php, comment out line #139 (in REL1_30)

  //$this->softwareInformation();