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Mediawiki on AIX, PHP-component missing

My OS-Version is AIX 7.2.5.3 (oslevel -s shows "7200-05-03-2148") and i try to install a Mediawiki (1.39.1). I used the RPM-packages from the "AIX Toolbox for Open Source Software" and have installed the versions from there: PHP 7.4.33 MariaDB…
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How to download latest MediaWiki from command line?

One can download MediaWiki via a web browser GUI here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download The download link there isn't version agnostic (it changes any time a new version comes out), that makes it impossible to download by the same link…
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Install php 7.X (for new wiki) alongside php 5.3 (for old wiki) on CentOS 6

I would like to replace the ancient Mediawiki (version 1.21.2,l PHP version 5.3.3, MySQL 5.1.73) used by my company with a brand new Mediawiki site running the latest version (requires php 7.0.13 or newer) and with brand new content. Naturally, I'd…
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Download-extract all content of a directory in tarball into an existing directory to override everything besides one or more exceptions

I have a MediaWiki 1.32.0 website which I want to upgrade, hosted on a CentOS "Shared Server" environment. It is an all-core website with no added extensions, skins and images (besides logo) To upgrade I need to change generally all files in the…
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Recursive wget, append something to each found URL

My main goal is to easily backup the page source for a bunch of MediaWiki pages of mine. I have every page I want downloaded, listed on my username page (https://wiki.example.com/index.php?title=User:username) and currently I can: wget -r --level=1…
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How to download all images with the full resolution (i.e. svg) from a single wikipedia article

I was asking myself how to download all (.svg) images from a single wikipedia article without doing it manually for each single image. Wikipedia is offering images in different resolutions and several formats using a more complex looking…
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How to remove php7 completely from centos 6?

I was trying to build a wiki on centos server and I downloaded PHP7 from its official website. When I wanted to remove it, I found that even if I deleted all the PHP7 files(I install it using a tar.gz), I can still get this: [root@xxx ~]# php -v PHP…
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My mediawiki page displayed index of/ after updating to apache 2.4.23

I had this problem with MediaWiki after updating apache At first, i installed using yum and i had apache 2.4.6, php 5.4 on my Centos7 Then i want to update them to latest version which is apache 2.4.23 and PHP 7.0 Until now, the only way to update…
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Parent of symbolic path

I am having trouble understanding this manual about the MediaWiki CMS. Please note that under POSIX systems (Linux...), parent of a symbolic path refers to the link source, NOT to the target! You should check the env variable MW_INSTALL_PATH in…
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CentOS OpenLdap Apache PHP and MediaWiki

So I have been trying to setup a "Free" wiki that integrates with my "Free" version of Active Directory (aka. OpenLdap), so I can get a super simple setup together for a dev group, that needs to work and trade spars about their tribal knowledge.…
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Error with MediaWiki database update script

I would like to update our stone-old MediaWiki installation (v1.24) to the latest version, running on Debian 10 (not installed as Debian package, just using the archive from the homepage) but I just can't get the database update to work. Neither the…
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PHP-FPM: 'No such file or directory' error from nginx/error.log. Path or permissions issue?

I am getting a "FastCGI sent in stderr: "Unable to open primary script: /var/www/mediawiki/index.php (No such file or directory)"" error when I enter my wiki address in a browser bar. Here is my PHP-FPM www.conf file: [www] user = nginx group =…
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How to print the version of a specific MediaWiki installation to terminal

I have a LAMP environment with /var/www/html/x which is a MediaWiki website. I have a few more MediaWiki websites but I'd like to print the version of the x one to terminal. I need to do so I could know what the last version was before I manually…
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Can't login to MediaWiki right after installation

When Installing latest stable MediaWiki on A CentOS machine I created a user and a password with my email as part of the LocalSettings.php file that the installer creates. After the installation wizard finished I downloaded the LocalSettings.php…
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MediaWiki automatic upgrades

I use latest MediaWiki (either on Arch Linux or Debian stable) in a personal project - I'm the only one who works on it, and I use MediaWiki in a core-only way (I don't install any extensions whatsoever). I'd like the core version to always be…
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