MediaWiki is a powerful wiki engine that was originally developed to serve the needs of Wikipedia - the free encyclopedia. Today, MediaWiki is used publicly by many of the largest and most popular wikis online, while privately it is being increasingly deployed inside company Intranets as a knowledge and content management system.
This appliance includes all the standard features in TurnKey Core, and on top of that:
MediaWiki configurations:
- Installed from upstream source code to /var/www/mediawiki
- Ensure clean and compliant HTML ($wgUseTidy)
Out of the box file uploading and image resizing (GD library)
- Maximum filesize: 2MB
- Supported file types: png, gif, jpg, jpeg
Security note: Updates to MediaWiki may require supervision so they ARE NOT configured to install automatically. See MediaWiki documentation for upgrading.
- SSL support out of the box.
- Adminer administration frontend for MySQL (listening on port 12322 - uses SSL).
- Postfix MTA (bound to localhost) to allow sending of email (e.g., password recovery, user registration)
- Webmin modules for configuring Apache2, PHP and MySQL.
Customization details:
- Site logo is located at /var/www/mediawiki/images/logo.png (recommended size: 135x135px).
Site name and administrative emails (set in /var/www/mediawiki/LocalSettings.php):
$wgSitename = ""; $wgEmergencyContact = webmaster@localhost; $wgPasswordSender = webmaster@localhost;
- Webmin, SSH, MySQL: username root
- Adminer: username adminer
- MediaWiki: username admin