MediaWiki

MediaWiki is an opensource wiki engine written in PHP by the Wikimedia Foundation. It is used by both Wikipedia and this site.

Visit the project website at:

• https://www.mediawiki.org

Running inside Docker

You can run MediaWiki from a Docker container. A proof of concept can be found at:

• https://git.steamr.com/docker/mediawiki

Data that would need to be imported to support customizations would include:

1. Images / Uploads
2. Extensions
3. Skins
4. The LocalSettings.php configuration file
5. Database (on a remote server / container / microservice), or a SQLite file on a volume

Troubleshooting

Scribunto Lua Failures

If templates cause this error:

Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 127.

This likely means that you do not have Lua installed or it is not in the PATH. You will need to specify the Lua path in LocalSettings.php with this line:

$wgScribuntoEngineConf['luastandalone']['luaPath'] = "/usr/bin/lua5.1";

Database Import Incomplete

Database imports from MySQL 5.7.27 to a MariaDB 10.4.7 seems to fail. Imports only appear to complete if the database dump was made without Enclose export in a transaction enabled in PHPMyAdmin but subsequent edits on the destination wiki will result in this error message:

The revision #0 of the page named "some-article" does not exist.

This is usually caused by following an outdated history link to a page that has been deleted. Details can be found in the deletion log.

Solution

It turns out the destination database server (mariadb:10.4.7, in docker) was not set up properly after being upgraded from MariaDB-10.1. On start up, it showed the following error messages:

2019-09-01 21:14:44 0 [Note] Server socket created on IP: '::'.
2019-09-01 21:14:44 0 [Warning] 'user' entry 'root@localhost.localdomain' ignored in --skip-name-resolve mode.
2019-09-01 21:14:44 0 [Warning] 'proxies_priv' entry '@% root@localhost.localdomain' ignored in --skip-name-resolve mode.
2019-09-01 21:14:44 0 [ERROR] Missing system table mysql.roles_mapping; please run mysql_upgrade to create it
2019-09-01 21:14:44 0 [ERROR] Incorrect definition of table mysql.event: expected column 'sql_mode' at position 14 to have type set('REAL_AS_FLOAT','PIPES_AS_CONCAT','ANSI_QUOTES','IGNORE_SPACE','IGNORE_BAD_TABLE_OPTIONS','ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY','NO_UNSIGNED_SUBTRACTION','NO_DIR_IN_CREATE','POSTGRESQL','ORACLE','MSSQL','DB2','MAXDB','NO_KEY_OPTIONS','NO_TABLE_OPTIONS','NO_FIELD_OPTIONS','MYSQL323','MYSQL40','ANSI','NO_AUTO_VALUE_ON_ZERO','NO_BACKSLASH_ESCAPES','STRICT_TRANS_TABLES','STRICT_ALL_TABLES','NO_ZERO_IN_DATE','NO_ZERO_DATE','INVALID_DATES','ERROR_FOR_DIVISION_BY_ZERO','TRADITIONAL','NO_AUTO_CREATE_USER','HIGH_NOT_PRECEDENCE','NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION','PAD_CHAR_TO_FULL_LENGTH','EMPTY_STRING_IS_NULL','SIMULTANEOUS_ASSIGNMENT'), found type set('REAL_AS_FLOAT','PIPES_AS_CONCAT','ANSI_QUOTES','IGNORE_SPACE','IGNORE_BAD_TABLE_OPTIONS','ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY','NO_UNSIGNED_SUBTRACTION','NO_DIR_IN_CREATE','POSTGRESQL','ORACLE','MSSQL','DB2','MAXDB','NO_KEY_OPTIONS','NO_TABLE_OPTIONS','NO_FIELD_OPTIONS','MYSQL323','MYSQL40','ANSI','NO_AUTO_VALU
2019-09-01 21:14:44 0 [ERROR] mysqld: Event Scheduler: An error occurred when initializing system tables. Disabling the Event Scheduler.
2019-09-01 21:14:44 6 [Warning] Failed to load slave replication state from table mysql.gtid_slave_pos: 1146: Table 'mysql.gtid_slave_pos' doesn't exist
2019-09-01 21:14:44 0 [Note] Reading of all Master_info entries succeeded
2019-09-01 21:14:44 0 [Note] Added new Master_info '' to hash table
2019-09-01 21:14:44 0 [Note] mysqld: ready for connections.
Version: '10.4.7-MariaDB-1:10.4.7+maria~bionic'  socket: '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock'  port: 3306  mariadb.org binary distribution
2019-09-01 21:14:46 0 [Note] InnoDB: Buffer pool(s) load completed at 190901 21:14:46
2019-09-01 21:14:49 8 [ERROR] InnoDB: Table `mysql`.`innodb_table_stats` not found.
2019-09-01 21:14:49 8 [ERROR] Transaction not registered for MariaDB 2PC, but transaction is active
2019-09-01 21:15:13 9 [ERROR] Transaction not registered for MariaDB 2PC, but transaction is active
2019-09-01 21:15:13 9 [ERROR] Transaction not registered for MariaDB 2PC, but transaction is active
2019-09-01 21:15:13 9 [ERROR] Transaction not registered for MariaDB 2PC, but transaction is active

Running mysql_upgrade fixed these errors and a subsequent database import was successful.