Ubuntu

Missing file for Mediawiki/Apache2 configuration

Asked by Tommy Pollák

According to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Running_MediaWiki_on_Ubuntu the file /etc/mediawiki/apache.conf should be edited (line Alias /mediawiki /var/lib/mediawiki to be uncommented) and edit /etc/apache2/apache2.conf to include the previously edited file.

However, I can not find a file apache.conf anywhere in my downloads or installation. Where can I find it or what is the content?

Question information

Language:
English Edit question
Status:
Solved
For:
Ubuntu Edit question
Assignee:
No assignee Edit question
Solved by:
Manfred Hampl
Solved:
Last query:
Last reply:
Revision history for this message
Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#1

Which Ubuntu release are you running?
How did you install mediawiki?
Have you seen the remark
"This section only applies if you installed MediaWiki using apt-get or aptitude, which is not recommended"
in the instructions?

Revision history for this message
Tommy Pollák (tpollak) said : 		#2

Ubuntu 16.04
mediawiki 1.26.3
apt-get as far as I can remember.
Yes.
My problem is that Apache2 is running OK, /var/www/index.html is rendered OK, but /var/wiki (logical link to /var/www/mediawiki.1.26.3/ is not rendered, that is does not show anything. However http://localhost/wiki/phpcs.xml renders /var/www/mediawiki.1.26.3/phpcs.xml.

Therefore I have concluded that the problem is that Apache2 does not recognize *.php in /var/www/mediawiki.1.26.3, hence the question.

Revision history for this message
Best Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#3

I propose that you uninstall your current mediawiki installation and re-start following the instructions to install the current version from mediawiki.org
Carefully read the warnings!

Revision history for this message
Tommy Pollák (tpollak) said : 		#4

Thanks for the tip. I removed the last Mediawiki version and that showed a different picture. Eventually the link from wikimedia to the actual mediawiki-1.26.2 was wrong. After I corrected it everything works OK.

By the way, I had installed 1.26.3 through a download from the mediawiki site (and not through apt-get).