frwhate / openshift-mediawiki

Example install of MediaWiki for OpenShift

OpenShift - MediaWiki

This repository is designed to be used with https://www.openshift.com applications. To use, just follow the quickstart below.

Quickstart

1. Create an account at https://www.openshift.com

2. Create a php application with mysql:

   $ rhc app create mediawiki php-5.4 mysql-5.5

3. Add this upstream mediawiki repo

   $ cd mediawiki
   $ git remote add upstream -m master git://github.com/openshift-quickstart/mediawiki-example.git
   $ git pull -s recursive -X theirs upstream master

4. Then push the repo upstream

   $ git push

5. That's it, you can now checkout your application at: http://mediawiki-$yourlogin.rhcloud.com

6. Default Admin Username: Admin Default Password: OpenShiftAdmin

Updates

In order to update or upgrade to the latest mediawiki, you'll need to re-pull and re-push.

1. Pull from upstream:

   $ cd mediawiki/
   $ git pull -s recursive -X theirs upstream master

2. Push the new changes upstream

   $ git push

Repo layout

php/ - Externally exposed php code goes here

libs/ - Additional libraries

misc/ - For not-externally exposed php code

../data - For persistent data

.openshift/pear.txt - list of pears to install

.openshift/action_hooks/build - Script that gets run every push, just prior to starting your app

Notes about layout

Please leave php, libs and data directories but feel free to create additional directories if needed.

Note: Every time you push, everything in your remote repo dir gets recreated please store long term items (like an sqlite database) in ../data which will persist between pushes of your repo.

pear.txt

A list of pears to install, line by line on the server. This will happen when the user git pushes.