MediaWiki, most recognized by its use with Wikipedia, is the most popular open source wiki platform available. With features heavily focused on the ease of editing and sharing content, MediaWiki makes a great system to store information you want to continually edit:
Getting ready
This example assumes you already have a working instance of MediaWiki or are familiar with the installation process. For those unfamiliar with the process, it's available online at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Installation_guide.
How to do it...
The basic NGINX configuration for MediaWiki is very similar to many other PHP platforms. It has a flat directory structure which easily runs with basic system resources.
Here's the configuration:
server {
listen 80;
server_name mediawiki.nginxcookbook.com;
access_log /var/log/nginx/mediawiki.access.log combined;
index index.php;
root /var/www/html/;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php7.0-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME
$document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}
} The default installation doesn't use any rewrite rules, which means you'll get URLs such as index.php?title=Main_Page instead of the neater (and more readable) /wiki/Main_Page. To enable this, we need to edit the LocalSettings.php file and add the following lines:
$wgArticlePath = "/wiki/$1"; $wgUsePathInfo = TRUE;
This allows the URLs to be rewritten in a much neater format.
See also
NGINX recipe: https://www.nginx.com/resources/wiki/start/topics/recipes/mediawiki/
