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I would NEVER EVER recommend regular humans go anywhere near running raw server software on their desktop. It’s a horror – I mean truly a horror unlike any you’ve ever imagined – to get that shit to work, to lock it down and to keep it running. If for some reason you did want to run a server, use a proper server distribution. A branch will eventually crop up for Unity Linux I’m sure, but there are Linux and BSD distributions which excel at this task.

So for us regular humans, a LAMP (software bundle) is the best thing to use. This is a collection of all the necessary tools which have been pre-configured to cooperate and bundled together in one .. much easier to use package. This concept has become wildly improved over the years, and I’ve used a bunch of different packages.

• my old bitnami scripts
• Very zombie: I have an ancient LAMPP I use for an archived MediaWiki reference.

• Now owned by VMWare

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• https://github.com/bitnami/vms/issues

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• I used this multiple times on newer Linux distributions, as of 2024-01-03 it would most recently be Lubuntu or Devuan.
• 2010-11-13 – MediaWiki 1.15.1-0 on Lubuntu 10.10
• 2010-01-05 on Unity Linux 64bit-beta2
• 2010-01-01 on Unity Linux 64bit-beta1
• TODO – I switched to this when XAMPP wouldn’t work on 64-bit.

• I used to use XAMPP Lite, but it was abandoned.

2010-11-13 – MediaWiki 1.15.1-0 ∞

A note on the version numbering – They don’t seem to have a BitNami package version.

I can’t make changes to pages and see the changes. I can re-edit the page and see my editing in there. However, when I alt-c I see the earlier changes. When I javascript:window.location+=%22?action=purge%22; or just append &action=purge then after pressing OK I see the updates.

What a pain in the ass.

I noticed that this was giving me errors about missing stuff:

(httpd.conf)

/opt/bitnami/apache2/bin/httpd -f /opt/bitnami/apache2/conf/httpd.conf

So I did this:

wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/libiconv/libiconv-1.13.tar.gz
tar -xvvzf libiconv-1.13.tar.gz
cd libiconv-1.13
./configure
make
make install
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so.2 /usr/lib/libiconv.so.2
# Ouch, dangerous.
ln -s /usr/lib/libldap_r-2.4.so.2.5.6 /usr/lib/libldap-2.3.so.0
# And again.
ln -s /usr/lib/liblber-2.4.so.2.5.6 /usr/lib/liblber-2.3.so.0
apt-get install libcurl3 libmysqlclient16

Now this command works properly:

/opt/bitnami/apache2/bin/httpd -f /opt/bitnami/apache2/conf/httpd.conf

But I still cannot launch all of bitnami with:

sudo -u user /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh start

I get:

101113 23:45:49 mysqld_safe Logging to '/opt/bitnami/mysql/data/mysqld.log'.
101113 23:45:49 mysqld_safe Starting mysqld.bin daemon with databases from /opt/bitnami/mysql/data
/opt/bitnami/mysql/scripts/ctl.sh : mysql  started at port 3306
Syntax OK
(13)Permission denied: make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:80
(13)Permission denied: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80
no listening sockets available, shutting down
Unable to open logs
/opt/bitnami/apache2/scripts/ctl.sh : httpd could not be started

I have to do:

sudo /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh start apache
sudo -u user /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh start mysql

fuck.

To remove the annoyance of being asked to purge, I added this to LocalSettings.php:

$wgGroupPermissions['*']['purge']         = true; // can use ?action=purge without clicking "ok"

I also have a bookmarklet that’ll let me purge a page easily:

javascript:window.location+=%22?action=purge%22;

However, it can’t handle anchors. The bookmarklet won’t work when visiting this URL, for example:

http://localhost/wiki/Sandbox#Introduction

Even though these URLs are both good:

http://localhost/wiki/Sandbox?action=purge
http://localhost/wiki/Sandbox#Introduction?action=purge

Strange. One page won’t allow my edits, but a sandbox page works the normal way without all this hackery. What the fuck.

2010-01-05 ∞

I didn’t notice this before, but I needed to add a ‘mysql’ user. I can do this and not bother setting a password, apparently..

useradd mysql

No complaints from this fresh beta2 install in running the existing Bitnami installation.

2010-01-01 ∞

• I can’t figure out how to access PhpMyAdmin. Even using their instructions it won’t work. I wasn’t able to reset the password. I don’t even know how to remove it! I just renamed apps/phpmyadmin so it wouldn’t work.

At the bottom of apache2/conf/httpd.conf I put:

Alias /wiki /opt/bitnami/apps/mediawiki/htdocs/index.php

At the bottom of apps/mediawiki/htdocs/LocalHost.php I put:

$wgScriptPath  = "/mediawiki";
$wgArticlePath = "/wiki/$1";
$wgUsePathInfo = true;

I (re)started BitNami with:

./ctlscript.sh restart

Memory Leak! ∞

A fresh run takes 20MB of memory, but an old instance which was left untouched overnight was still taking 100MB. Wha.