Walkthrough Installation of WackoWiki v5.5.12
Installing WackoWiki on a new Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
Evaggelos Balaskas
Walkthrough Installation of WackoWiki v5.5.12
1. Ansible Role
Example ansible role for the wackowiki for the Requirements section: WackoWiki Ansible Role
2. Requirements
Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS
apt -y install php php-common php-bcmath php-ctype php-gd php-iconv php-json php-mbstring php-mysql apache2 libapache2-mod-php mariadb-server unzip
3. Apache2
We need to enable mod_reqwrite in apache2 but also to add the appropiate configuration in the default conf in VirtualHost
# a2enmod rewrite
# vim /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf
<VirtualHost *:80> ... # enable.htaccess <Directory /var/www/html/> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride All Require all granted </Directory> ... </VirtualHost>
4. MySQL
wacko.sql
CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS wacko; CREATE USER 'wacko'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'YOURNEWPASSWORD'; GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wacko.* TO 'wacko'@'localhost'; FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
# mysql < wacko.sql
5. WackoWiki
curl -sLO https://downloads.sourceforge.net/wackowiki/wacko.r6.0.4.zip unzip wacko.r6.0.4.zip mv wacko.r6.0.4/wacko /var/www/html/wacko/ chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/wacko/
6. Web Installation
7. Post Install
Last, we need to remove write permission for the WackoWiki configuration file and remove setup folder
root@ubuntu:~# chmod -w /var/www/html/wacko/config/config.php root@ubuntu:~# mv /var/www/html/wacko/setup/ /var/www/html/._setup