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	Add an IP/hostname mapping to your hosts ~~files~~ (e.g., /etc/hosts). For example:		Add an IP/hostname mapping to your hosts file (e.g., /etc/hosts). For example:

	127.0.0.1 obwiki.local		127.0.0.1 obwiki.local

	Add a virtualhost to your web server. For example		Add a virtualhost to your web server. For example:

	<VirtualHost localhost:80>		<VirtualHost localhost:80>

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= Creating a MediaWiki development environment =

== Obtaining the Source ==

<pre>
mkdir wiki.occupyboston.org
cd wiki.occupyboston.org
git init
git remote add origin ssh://obwiki@boggs.mayfirst.org/home/members/occupyboston/sites/wiki.occupyboston.org/include/site_hub
git fetch origin
git checkout master
</pre>

Here's what the result should look like.

<pre>
$ ls
total 8
4 mediawiki/ 4 robots.txt
</pre>

The "mediawiki" directory will be your document root.

== Setup a Virtual Host ==

Add an IP/hostname mapping to your hosts files (e.g., /etc/hosts). For example:

127.0.0.1 obwiki.local

Add a virtualhost to your web server. For example

<VirtualHost localhost:80>
ServerName obwiki.local
DocumentRoot /PATH/TO/wiki.occupyboston.org/mediawiki
</VirtualHost>

== Initial Wiki Install ==

Go to <nowiki>http://obwiki.local</nowiki>; click "set up the wiki".

Go through the wiki installation process. I'll assume that you're
using MySQL, a username of "obwiki", and a database name of "obwiki".

Don't worry too much about the initial configuration parameters.
We'll set up the confgiuration in a subsequent step.

At the end of the installation, MediaWiki will ask you to save a
LocalSettings.php file. Save this file as '''LocalSettings-install.php.'''

== Configuration Setup ==

cd mediawiki # this is the document root
cp LocalSettings-example.php LocalSettings.php

Now, edit LocalSettings.php. Fill in the values from LocalSettings-install.php.

=== Noteworthy Configuration Directives ===

If you'd like to use mod_rewrite, add the following to your
webserver's virtualhost definition:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/*$ http://obwiki.local/wiki/Main_Page [L]
RewriteRule ^/?wiki/(.*)$ /index.php?title=$1 [PT,L,QSA]

If you don't want to use mod_rewrite, add this line to LocalSettings.php

$wgArticlePath = false;

You may also want to add

$wgUseSquid = false;

== Additional Setup for Plugins ==

We enable several MediaWiki plugins, and some of these plugins require
additional database tables. To install the additional database
tables:

cd mediawiki
php maintenance/update.php

At this point, you should be able to create and edit pages in your development environment.

== Miscellaneous Notes ==

If you'd like to look at boggs server configuration for
wiki.occupyboston.org, you'll find it in
<tt>~obwiki/wiki.occupyboston.org/.red/apache2</tt>.

The live document root is
<tt>~obwiki/wiki.occupyboston.org/web/mediawiki/</tt>. Note that this
is a checked out copy of git repository.

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