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Feasoron
Asked: 2012-05-03 13:27:46 +0800 CST

How do I configure Mediawiki on EC2 if anonymous browsing is disabled?

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So I have new MediaWiki instance install on a brand new Amazon EC2 instances. All is going swimmingly, until I have to log in via the web browser to configure it. Since I'm running on a hosted server, I can't hit http://localhost/mediawiki/config/index.php like the instructions say to.

If I try to hit it via http://<My IP address>/mediawiki/config/index.php, my browser just tries to download the file because anonymous browsing isn't enabled. I seem to be before LocalSettings.php is created, so I don't know how to move forward from here.

software-installation server mediawiki amazon-ec2

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    Actually there is a splendid generic way of accessing remote resources as if they were local.

    ssh -L 8080:localhost:80 username@EC2machine

    this will tunnel the port 80 (the http protocol) , on your EC2 instance to your own computers loopback interface on the port 8080

    Simply typing http://localhost:8080 on your computers web browser will redirect the request to your EC2 instance through the created SSH tunnel

    the reason i choose 8080 instead of 80 for the loopback interface port, is that ports below 1024 are privileged and require sudo to be used.

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  2. Note that there is a juju charm for mediawiki, though it is meant for higher scale installations which would have multiple web-heads and dedicated instances for MySQL, memcached, etc. To use it you can install and setup juju (see https://juju.ubuntu.com/docs/) and then type

     juju bootstrap
 juju deploy mediawiki mywiki
 juju deploy mysql wiki-db
 juju add-relation wiki-db mywiki
 juju expose mywiki

    This will run three EC2 instances (1 juju server, 1 mediawiki, 1 mysql). You can run it on one as well if you add 'placement: local' to your environments.yaml, but that is an undocumented hack that may be removed.

    This should result in a running, working mediawiki at the address of the mediawiki server (visible by typing juju status mywiki). If you also add memcached, it will scale out pretty heavily with juju add-unit mywiki.

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