Dev/Replicating whonix.org
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Installation[edit]
(Firefox-ESR is required, because Tor Browser no longer supports visiting 127.0.0.1. Any other browser would work as well.)
(Due to no instructions available on how to get mediawiki's maintenance/install.php to work, we must do a normal install of mediawiki first. Then we upgrade it to replicate whonix.org.)
Open a terminal. As normal, not root user!
Get into your home folder.
cd ~
Install web software:
sudo apt-get install git apache2 libapache2-mod-removeip php5-mysql php5 libapache2-mod-php5 php-apc mysql-client mysql-server firefox-esr php5-dev liblua5.1-dev lua5.1 curl
You will be asked for a mysql root password. Remember it.
Get our wiki images and content database backup:
git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/WhonixBOT/WhonixWikiBackups.git
Get and install the mediawiki web app:
curl --tlsv1.2 --proto =https https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.26/mediawiki-1.26.2.tar.gz > mediawiki-1.26.2.tar.gz
tar -xvzf mediawiki-*.tar.gz
rm mediawiki-*.tar.gz
sudo mv mediawiki-* /var/www/wiki
Start Firefox-ESR.
Setup mediawiki. Go to http://127.0.0.1/wiki/mw-config/index.php [archive].
Use the following settings:
Database name: wiki Datebase password: what you remembered above No more questions. Otherwise use the defaults. Name of wiki: Whonix
Download LocalSettings.php, save as in your home folder as ~/LocalSettings.php.
sudo mv ~/LocalSettings.php /var/www/wiki/
Go to http://127.0.0.1/wiki [archive], see if you see a fresh wiki, log in, see if that works as well.
Move the dummy wiki out of the way:
## Maybe rm when this instructions are finished. sudo mv /var/www /var/www_dummy
Replicate Whonix ™ /var/www folder from git:
sudo git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/Whonix/www.git /var/www
Create a file /etc/apache2/wikiSecrets.php.
lxsudo mousepad /etc/apache2/wikiSecrets.php
With the following content. Make sure you replace xxxxxx with your actual you remembered password. (You need to replace xxxxxx with your actual password 3 times, for wgDBpassword, wgSecretKey and wgUpgradeKey.)
<?php
## Database settings
$wgDBtype = "mysql";
$wgDBserver = "localhost";
$wgDBname = "wiki";
$wgDBuser = "root";
$wgDBpassword = "xxxxxx";
# MySQL specific settings
$wgDBprefix = "";
# MySQL table options to use during installation or update
$wgDBTableOptions = "ENGINE=InnoDB, DEFAULT CHARSET=binary";
# Experimental charset support for MySQL 5.0.
$wgDBmysql5 = false;
$wgSecretKey = "xxxxxx";
# Site upgrade key. Must be set to a string (default provided) to turn on the
# web installer while LocalSettings.php is in place
$wgUpgradeKey = "xxxxxx";
#CAPTCHA here
require_once( "$IP/extensions/ConfirmEdit/ConfirmEdit.php" );
require_once( "$IP/extensions/ConfirmEdit/QuestyCaptcha.php");
$wgCaptchaClass = 'QuestyCaptcha';
$arr = array (
"type answerhere" => "answerhere",
);
foreach ( $arr as $key => $value ) {
$wgCaptchaQuestions[] = array( 'question' => $key, 'answer' => $value );
}
Edit /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default:
lxsudo mousepad /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default
Insert the following at the end of the file, but before </VirtualHost>:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/?wiki(/.*)?$ /w/index.php [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^/?$ /w/index.php [QSA,L]
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_URI} !-f
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_URI} !-d
RewriteRule ^/?w/images/thumb/[0-9a-f]/[0-9a-f][0-9a-f]/([^/]+)/([0-9]+)px-.*$ %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/w/thumb.php?f=$1&width=$2 [L,QSA,B]
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_URI} !-f
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_URI} !-d
RewriteRule ^/?w/images/thumb/archive/[0-9a-f]/[0-9a-f][0-9a-f]/([^/]+)/([0-9]+)px-.*$ %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/w/thumb.php?f=$1&width=$2&archived=1 [L,QSA,B]
Run:
sudo mkdir /var/www/w/cache
Your webserver must have read/write access to your /var/www folder. Run:
sudo chown --recursive www-data:www-data /var/www
Run:
sudo -u www-data php /var/www/wiki/maintenance/update.php --quick sudo -u www-data php /var/www/wiki/maintenance/importImages.php ~/WhonixWikiBackups/mediafiles/ sudo -u www-data php /var/www/wiki/maintenance/importDump.php ~/WhonixWikiBackups/dumpContentCurrent.xml sudo -u www-data php /var/www/wiki/maintenance/rebuildrecentchanges.php
Run:
sudo a2enmod rewrite sudo a2enmod removeip
Run:
sudo service apache2 restart
You should now be able to visit http://127.0.0.1 [archive] and/or http://127.0.0.1/wiki/Main_Page [archive].
Debugging[edit]
Rewrites[edit]
Perhaps working:
- http://127.0.0.1/wiki/index.php/Documentation [archive]
- http://127.0.0.1/w/index.php/Documentation [archive]
Perhaps not working:
In that case, something is wrong with shorturl / rewrite.
Apache Error Log[edit]
tail -f /var/log/apache2/error.log
Mediawiki Debug Log[edit]
Run.
## Replace "user" with your actual operating system user name. touch /home/user/wgdebuglog chmod o+w /home/user/wgdebuglog chmod g+w /home/user/wgdebuglog
Edit /var/www/wiki/LocalSettings.php.
lxsudo mousepad /var/www/wiki/LocalSettings.php
And add.
## Replace "user" with your actual operating system user name. $wgDebugLogFile = "/home/user/wgdebuglog";
Watch the log while trying to access the wiki in Firefox-ESR.
## Replace "user" with your actual operating system user name. tail -f /home/user/wgdebuglog
Alternative Backup[edit]
Maybe it would be simpler if we shared a mysql backup without passwords.
mediawiki irc channel:
mysqldump --ignore-table=wiki.user
although it would result in a broken database if you restore it
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