User:Huji

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Useful links for me:

• User:Huji/Protection
• User:Huji/Block
• User:Huji/Wikimedia clone
• Developers/Maintainers

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Setting up an Ubuntu VM for MW development

I had to do this so many times (setting up an Ubuntu VM using VirtualBox, then installing and configuring MediaWiki on it to resemble the WMF environment, just to start working on a patch on MW or an extension) that I felt like I might as well just document the commands somewhere so I can copy-paste them the next time!

1. Install Oh-my-zsh!

   sudo apt-get install zsh

   wget https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/raw/master/tools/install.sh -O - | zsh

   chsh -s `which zsh`

   Log out and log back in

2. Install LAMP, and git stuff

   sudo apt-get install apache2 mysql-server php-mysql php-mbstring php-xml curl git libapache2-mod-php php-mcrypt python-pip ssh composer

   sudo service apache2 restart

3. Configure git

   git config --global user.email "[email protected]"

   git config --global user.name "Your Name"

4. Install git-review

   sudo pip install git-review

5. Create SSH private and public keys

   cd; ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "[email protected]"

   Store the public key on https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/settings/ssh-keys

6. Clone mediawiki into /var/www/html

   sudo chmod 777 /var/www/html

   cd /var/www/html

   git clone ssh://[email protected]:29418/mediawiki/core.git .

   composer update

7. Clone the Vector skin:

   cd skins

   git clone ssh://[email protected]:29418/mediawiki/skins/Vector.git .

8. Add wfLoadSkin( 'Vector' ); to the end of LocalSettings.php file
9. Create the CentralAuth database

   cd extensions

   git clone ssh://[email protected]:29418/mediawiki/extensions/CentralAuth.git

   cd CentralAuth

   mysql -u root -p then ...

   CREATE DATABASE centralauth;
USE centralauth;
SOURCE central-auth.sql;
quit

10. Install MediaWiki; follow this: https://gist.github.com/Huji/a41e3d59ac4c43f245083024dbf36203