Wikijournals Server¶
Description¶
Wikijournals-server is a web application, based on Semantic Mediawiki. This application allow collecting articles, publishers, publications and authors in a semantic database. The following functions are available:
- Saving semantic attributes for articles like persons, companies and locations
- Searching for articles, publications, publishers and authors by using semantic attributes
- Basic social network functions for registered users (f.e. user board for sending internal messages)
Requirements¶
- Linux Server (for example Ubuntu 18)
- Webserver: Apache > 2.0
- Database: MySQL >= 5.7
- Scripting Language: PHP >= 7.0
- Minimum space on server: 100 MB
- Installed Composer (Dependency Manager for PHP)
- Installed Git
- Existing empty Database in MySQL
Pre-Install Tasks¶
Clone wikijournals git repo => git clone https://github.com/swertschak/wikijournals.git
Create empty database in MySQL (if not exists)
Note the following database parameters for the installation
- Database name
- Database user
- Database user password
Installation¶
Installation per Shell Script¶
Open Terminal
Change to the wikijournals code directory (the cloned git repo)
execute command tools/Install_Wikijournals.sh as sudo with the follwing 9 parameters in this order
- html directory
- wikijournals directory
- dbuser
- dbpass
- dbserver
- dbname
- wikiuser
- wikipwd
- wikiname
Sample¶
Danger
Please note: The script Install_Wikijournals.sh must be run under a user, who has write access for the web directory on the server.
Manual Installation¶
Install Mediawiki¶
- Download current Mediawiki version from mediawiki.org
- Uncompress the mediawiki archive
- Upload the uncompressed archive to the web server f.i. /htdocs/wikijournals
- Ensure access to the web directory including sub-directories for the web user (f.i. www-data)
- For example per chown command: sudo chown -cR www-data:www-data wikijournals
- Perform normal mediawiki installation (see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Installation_guide)
Install Foreground Theme¶
- Download Foreground (git clone https://github.com/thingles/foreground.git)
- Install Foreground, see https://github.com/thingles/foreground/
- Set Foreground as Default Skin (see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgDefaultSkin)
Install Semantic Mediawiki¶
Install Semantic Extensions¶
Install Mediawiki Extensions¶
Install Wikijournals Structure¶
- Open terminal
- Change to wikijournals directory on the web server
- Change to maintenance directory
- Copy wikijournalsStructure.xml from the wikijournals_structure directory to the maintenance dir
- execute php importDump.php < wikijournalsStructure.xml
Update¶
Todo: Add update