Introduction
One of the many available One-Click Apps that we have is MediaWiki. MediaWiki is a free software open source wiki package written in PHP, originally for use on Wikipedia.
Prerequisites
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Orbit created with MediaWiki image
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Running Orbit
Creating Your Orbit
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To create your application, you must create a Photon. You can do so by selecting the Photon tab after selecting ‘Create Orbit’
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Once there, you will see a list of available photons that you can create. Select one and it will bring you to a detailed page
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Scroll down to the details and you can start selecting options for your photon as well as setting up credentials.
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Once everything is filled in, just press Create and you can move on to the next step
SSH into Orbit
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First we need to check some details on our orbit by first navigating to the “My Orbits” tab.
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Once there, click on the Orbit you want to connect to and check for three things:
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IP Address
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Running Status
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Source Image(Ubuntu, Debian, Centos, Fedora
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Once you have confirmed that your Orbit is running and you have the other information. Open up your console.
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Now you can SSH into your Orbit by running.
ssh image@address
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IP Address: We got this from the detail page, in this case it is “216.200.116.60”
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Image: We got this from the source image in the details page. It should be one of the following: ubuntu, debian, fedora, centos
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Note: A full command for this example would be: “ssh ubuntu@216.200.116.60”
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Starting MediaWiki
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Once you are SSH’d into the server you will see the following:
All passwords are generated when an orbit is first created and stored in a .secrets file, unless the welcome screen says otherwise. To access it, run the following command:
cat .secrets
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This welcome message displays what IP address you need to open in your browser after you finish setting up the app. First you need to run:
sudo bash mediawiki.sh
When it asks for an address, put the IP Address of the server unless you already know how you are setting it up.
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After the setup is done, you should see an image like below and now you can open your webpage to the IP address that you saw at the welcome screen.
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To make sure everything is working, when you open up your browser and navigate to that specific IP address, you should see a webpage like this. If so, your MediaWiki app is setup and you can begin using it.