ISFDB:Full Linux Website

Setting up an ISFDB webserver

1. Follow the instructions at ISFDB:Personal_Linux_Website. This will handle everything except the Wiki setup.

2. Install MediaWiki.

• Make sure php 5 is installed on your system.
• Download the latest version of MediaWiki, and place it in the apache directory. In a typical install this would be /var/www.
• Extract the files by executing: tar -xvf mediawiki-version.tar
• Rename the directory: mv mediawiki-version wiki

3. Modify wiki/LocalSettings.php. Make the following changes/additions:

  $IP = "/var/www/wiki";
  $wgSitename        = "ISFDB";
  $wgScriptPath      = "/wiki";
  $wgLogo            = "$wgStylePath/common/images/isfdb.gif";
  $wgEmergencyContact = "somebody@email_account.com";
  $wgPasswordSender   = "postmaster@your_host_name";
  $wgDBserver         = "localhost";
  $wgDBname           = "isfdb";
  $wgDBuser           = "root";
  $wgDBpassword       = "";
  $wgDBprefix         = "mw_";
  $wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false;
  $wgSpamRegex = "/\<.*style.*?(display|position|overflow|visibility|height)\s*:.*?>/i";
  $wgEnableCreativeCommonsRdf = true;
  $wgRightsPage = ""; # Set to the title of a wiki page that describes your license/copyright
  $wgRightsUrl = "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/";
  $wgRightsText = "Attribution";
  $wgRightsIcon = "http://creativecommons.org/images/public/somerights20.gif";
  $wgAllowExternalImages = true;
  $wgServer = "http://www.isfdb2.org";
  $wgExtraNamespaces[100] = "Author";
  $wgExtraNamespaces[101] = "Author_talk";
  $wgExtraNamespaces[102] = "Bio";
  $wgExtraNamespaces[103] = "Bio_talk";
  $wgExtraNamespaces[104] = "Fanzine";
  $wgExtraNamespaces[105] = "Fanzine_talk";
  $wgExtraNamespaces[106] = "Magazine";
  $wgExtraNamespaces[107] = "Magazine_talk";
  $wgExtraNamespaces[108] = "Publication";
  $wgExtraNamespaces[109] = "Publication_talk";
  $wgExtraNamespaces[110] = "Publisher";
  $wgExtraNamespaces[111] = "Publisher_talk";
  $wgExtraNamespaces[112] = "Series";
  $wgExtraNamespaces[113] = "Series_talk";
  require_once( "$IP/extensions/ConfirmEdit/ConfirmEdit.php" );

4. Upgrade the Wiki if necessary.

• Modify AdminSettings.php with the mysql username and password
• In wiki/extensions install the ConfirmEdit extension
• cd wiki/maintenance execute: php update.php