Zero to Mux (with wiki)

surreality

@bobotron I did, but there's stuff with it that's a bit on the fussy side with mediawiki, depending on how you want to do it. The redwerks short url file linked from mediawiki's info on it is pretty good.

I did manage to get this to behave at one point on a multi-wiki-one-droplet install, but it was especially fussy from what I recall.

Despite what some people may be eager to claim all over the place, I am not and never have claimed to be an expert (let alone 'genius') on mediawiki, particularly the server side of it. I have always been super clear I am a server novice at best, so the short url thing is not something I feel at all comfortable walking someone through.

skew

@thenomain So Thenomain doesn't forget...

The LAMP droplet needs to be selected from the "one click install" page, when you go to set up a new droplet.

Once you're in, the mysql_secure_installation requires you to enter the password of mysql. This should be created by default and stored in a directory. Look at the motd that displays when you first log in, it'll say to check "/root/.digitalocean_password" which you do with more /root/.digitalocean_password.

In 1. [Step 1] under "Get Us Some MediaWiki", you need to add... sudo apt-get install php-xml and make sure to do a sudo service apache2 restart after that's done!

skew

And more...

After installing TinyMUX and setting the port and all, I attempted to connect and I failed. Per Thenomain, he asked me to check if the Mux was running via... telnet localhost <port>

Success, could reach connect screen. Then light bulb. Almost all ports are blocked by default (is this new to THIS distro of Ubuntu? idk). Need to allow through the firewall via... sudo ufw allow <port>/tcp.

surreality

@skew Digitalocean has the ufw firewall installed by default on the LAMP droplet one-click-apps; it's newish but I've seen it going back to around the start of the year from what I recall, at least.

Info on it is here: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-a-firewall-with-ufw-on-ubuntu-16-04

That's the 'how to set it up', but the LAMP Ubuntu droplet has it installed and active by default, so if there are other adjustments you want to make, that covers other refinements/etc.

skew

@surreality Refinements such as how to block specific IPs! For when a ban on the MU just isn't enough!

sudo ufw deny from 15.15.15.51

skew

@skew And more...

I don't see it listed anywhere on any of the instructions (which isn't to say it isn't, just that I don't see it!), but after installing the basic stuff was root, I installed my game as mygameuser. Figured that was smart, right? Anyways, I couldn't get SQL to work (mind, I'm using Chime's branch). When doing Chime's configure, I was seeing... checking for mysql/mysql.h... no and I figured that's why SQL wasn't working. Right? Right. Sure.

So, I did some digging here and found Ark recommending apt-get install -y libmysqlclient-dev and that did it.

surreality

Another heads-up: apparently Mediawiki dropped a new version with a lot of changes today. If you're just starting an install, keep the usual caveats in mind. It specifically notes:

1.31 has several database changes since 1.30, and will not work without schema updates.

Someone with a high level of clue re: how Mediawiki interacts with MySQL should probably take a peek to see if this changes how games will be interacting with it to avoid any surprises that might be lurking in wait. (That person is not me.)

surreality

Another quick update:

If you're doing the multiple linked wikis/wiki family with shared resources on one droplet as described here, do not symlink the 'includes' folder. This one needs to remain independent in each of your separate wiki install folders. If it's not, an update to one crosses over to all of them. (Don't ask me why, because I don't know. It says you can do this, and, well, you can't without it glitching up, at least with 1.31, and before anyone else tears their hair out, well... there you go. I left serialized and vendor alone as well, and it's keeping the installs properly distinct.)

Rogue.Spirit

Okay, I get to the SSH step using both kiTTY or puTTY and I can't get passed that. As it was a suggested step I tried to skip it and just log in(on the droplet console) with root and the password given in my email and it keeps telling me the password is wrong. Given... I can't even see myself typing the password in so I'm not certain I'm even typing.

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Update: I had droplet send me a new password and I was able to create a new password with that. Now I'm trying to do the mysql_secure_installation to run and I'm not sure I'm doing that right. You enter this at the root@play:~# or what do I do there? Because I enter it in and then type my password and I get "Error: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES) This occurs even when I use the password mysql as suggested by @skew.

Likewise, changing the password helped me get into puTTY.

Arkandel

@rogue-spirit said in Zero to Mux (with wiki):

Okay, I get to the SSH step using both kiTTY or puTTY and I can't get passed that. As it was a suggested step I tried to skip it and just log in(on the droplet console) with root and the password given in my email and it keeps telling me the password is wrong. Given... I can't even see myself typing the password in so I'm not certain I'm even typing.

If your password is incorrect then your hosting company's admins should definitely change that for you, since without it you can't do much else.

But even if you could log on through a console I very strongly recommend figuring out what you need to do to log on using a proper SSH client, since otherwise you'll run into display issues, pasting might be problematic, back scrolling could be difficult, etc. The console is there to recover from situations that otherwise lock you out your server (say, if your ssh daemon is unresponsive, you block its port by mistake, the machine won't boot up fully, etc).

Update: I had droplet send me a new password and I was able to create a new password with that. Now I'm trying to do the mysql_secure_installation to run and I'm not sure I'm doing that right. You enter this at the root@play:~# or what do I do there? Because I enter it in and then type my password and I get "Error: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES) This occurs even when I use the password mysql as suggested by @skew.

Try to log on mysql with

mysql -u root -p

then hit <enter>. If your password is blank (as it should be) then you should be logged on mysql, and you can do

UPDATE mysql.user SET Password=PASSWORD('NewPassHere') WHERE User='root'; FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

at which point you should be set. If not we can go into password recovery which shouldn't be too hard since you've got system root access now.

surreality

@arkandel The mysql password isn't blank on digitalocean.

In the intro message, it has the location of the default password they set up.

You are encouraged to run 'mysql_secure_installation' to ready your server for
production. The passwords for MySQL have been saved to:
/root/.digitalocean_password

^That.

So you can type:
nano /root/.digitalocean_password
...from your root login to the server itself (which is different) to find it.

Ziggurat

@glitch said in Zero to Mux (with wiki):

Once you have an account created, the following tutorial will walk you through setting up your new server and mediawiki: Digital Ocean Mediawiki Tutorial

So, this is a super old thread, but I am starting my journey as a MU-runner and have hit a snag already. The Mediawiki tutorial is no longer available, it looks like, as of September. So I have my Digitalocean account, but I've got no idea what I'm doing or what tools I should or should not be selecting here for this project. Anyone have pointers for setting up a server and Mediawiki using Digitalocean?

fatefan

@ziggurat I believe there is a droplet that comes with Mediawiki, but you can always fall back to the LAMP droplet for Ubuntu.

For the latter:

Create a MySQL account and DB for Mediawiki to use.
sudo apt install mediawiki (I think that's the right package name?) OR
wget <mediawiki .gz address>, tar -xvf mediawiki*gz, and then sudo mv mediawiki/* /var/html/www/*
Go to your IP address in a web browser and complete the step-by-step Mediawiki install.
This will end with downloading LocalSettings.php and then placing it in your /var/html/www folder.

faraday

@fatefan DO got rid of a lot of their pre-configured droplets and I believe MediaWiki was one of them.

skew

@ziggurat @Thenomain updated instructions, and my notes above (maybe back a page?) built on that.

Check it out here: https://musoapbox.net/topic/138/zero-to-mux-with-wiki/41