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"*": "<tr><td colspan=\"2\" class=\"diff-lineno\" id=\"mw-diff-left-l1\" >Line 1:</td>\n<td colspan=\"2\" class=\"diff-lineno\">Line 1:</td></tr>\n<tr><td class='diff-marker'>\u2212</td><td class='diff-deletedline'><div>'''<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">MediaWiki has been successfully installed</del>.'''</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\"><html> If you</ins>'<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">ve ever installed a LAMP server on RedHat Enterprise Linux or CentOS Linux this process will look pretty familiar to you.  Fedora 16, RHEL, and CentOS all use yum to manage packages so setting up a LAMP server is a breeze. </ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td class='diff-marker'>\u2212</td><td class='diff-deletedline'><div> </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\"> One thing you may notice that differs in this guide from RHEL and CentOS is the lack of </ins>'<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">service</ins>' <ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">and 'chkconfig' commands</ins>. <ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\"> The Linux commands </ins>'<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">service</ins>' <ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">and </ins>'<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">chkconfig' are part of the init daemon SysVinit.  Fedora is moving away from SysVinit and is instead using systemd.  Although most commands from SysVinit are supported in systemd, this guide will use systemd-style commands exclusively. </ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td class='diff-marker'>\u2212</td><td class='diff-deletedline'><div><del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">Consult </del>the <del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">[</del>//<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">meta</del>.<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">wikimedia</del>.<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">org</del>/<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">wiki</del>/<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">Help</del>:<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">Contents User</del>'s <del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">Guide] </del>for <del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">information on </del>using the <del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">wiki software</del>.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\"> In this example, our server's hostname is vps.example.com and resolves to the IP address 169.254.1.2. </ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td class='diff-marker'>\u2212</td><td class='diff-deletedline'><div> </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\"><div class="acenet_article_legend"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Contents</span></strong><br /><a href="#fedora16-update-your-system">Update your system</a><br /> <a href="#fedora16-install-apache-web-server-and-php-53">Install </ins>the <ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">Apache Web Server and PHP 5.3<</ins>/<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">a><br </ins>/<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">> <a href="#fedora16-install-mysql">Install MySQL</a></div></ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td class='diff-marker'>\u2212</td><td class='diff-deletedline'><div>== <del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">Getting started </del>==</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\"><br /></ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td class='diff-marker'>\u2212</td><td class='diff-deletedline'><div><del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">* </del>[//<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">www</del>.<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">mediawiki</del>.<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">org</del>/<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">wiki</del>/<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">Manual:Configuration_settings Configuration settings list</del>]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\"><h1 class="acenet_article_title"><a name="fedora16-update-your-system" href="#fedora16-update-your-system">Update your System</a></h1></ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td class='diff-marker'>\u2212</td><td class='diff-deletedline'><div><del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">* </del>[//<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">www</del>.<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">mediawiki</del>.<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">org</del>/<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">wiki</del>/<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">Manual:FAQ MediaWiki FAQ</del>]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\"> Connect to your server via SSH as the root user</ins>. <ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">Ensure your system is up to date using yum</ins>.  </div></td></tr>\n<tr><td class='diff-marker'>\u2212</td><td class='diff-deletedline'><div><del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">* </del>[<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">https:</del>//<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">lists</del>.<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">wikimedia</del>.<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">org</del>/<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">mailman</del>/<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">listinfo</del>/<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">mediawiki-announce MediaWiki release mailing list</del>]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\"><div class="code_style">yum update<</ins>/<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">div></ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\"><h1 class="acenet_article_title"><a name="fedora16-install-apache-web-server-and-php-53" href="#fedora16-install-apache-web-server-and-php-53">Install the Apache Web Server and PHP 5.3<</ins>/<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">a></h1></ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">  Install the "Web Server" package using yum groupinstall. </ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\"><div class="code_style">yum groupinstall "Web Server"</div></ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\"> Like CentOS, this will install PHP as well.  The "Web Server" group also installs PHP 5.3.14. </ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\"> Configure the Apache Web Server (httpd) to start automatically on reboot </ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\"><div class="code_style">systemctl enable httpd.service</div></ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">  Start the Apache Web Server (httpd) </ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\"><div class="code_style">systemctl start httpd.service</div></ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\"> The web server is now installed, but requires some configuration.  Open the Apache configuration file with your favorite text editor.  We'll use nano in this example. </ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\"><div class="code_style">nano /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf</div></ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\"> Let's first change the ServerName directive.  If your hostname has a properly resolving DNS entry, you can use your server's hostname.  Otherwise, you can use the IP address for your server. </ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\"><div class="code_style">ServerName 169.254.1.2</ins>:<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">80</div></ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\"> The DocumentRoot directive defines where Apache will serve documents.  By default, this path is set to /var/www/html.  If you prefer to have your documents served from a different directory, you can adjust this as desired. </ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\"> The Listen directive defines which IP addresses and ports Apache will bind to.  The default value *:80 will cause Apache to bind to all IP addresses which is often unnecessary.  Unless you know you need a certain IP to be bound to port 80 for Apache, it will usually suffice to list only your server</ins>'s <ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">main IP. </ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\"><div class="code_style">Listen 169.254.1.2:80</div></ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\"> Anytime the Apache configuration file is modified, the Apache service needs to be restarted </ins>for <ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">the changes to take effect.  Let's restart Apache: </ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\"><div class="code_style">systemctl restart httpd.service</div></ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\"> For additional safety, let's set the user and group ownership of /var/www/html/ to the apache user.  This will prevent PHP scripts from being executed as root and performing potentially harmful actions. </ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\"><div class="code_style">chown apache.apache /var/www/html</div></ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\"> Apache can be customized far beyond the few directives we've covered here.  However, these few changes are all that's required to get a working installation.  We can now upload our HTML and PHP files to /var/www/html/ and visit our site in a web browser.  </ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\"><h1 class="acenet_article_title"><a name="fedora16-install-mysql" href="#fedora16-install-mysql">Install MySQL</a></h1></ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\"> Install the MySQL database server </ins>using <ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">yum groupinstall </ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\"><div class="code_style">yum groupinstall "MySQL Database"</div></ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\"> Configure </ins>the <ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">MySQL service to start on boot </ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\"><div class="code_style">systemctl enable mysqld</ins>.<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">service</div></ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\"> Start the MySQL service </ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\"><div class</ins>=<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">"code_style">systemctl start mysqld.service</div></ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\"> Secure your new MySQL service with mysql_secure_installation </ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\"><div class</ins>=<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">"code_style">mysql_secure_installation</div></ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\"> This will prompt you to answer several questions about your MySQL service. </ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\"><div class</ins>=<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">"code_style">NOTE: RUNNING ALL PARTS OF THIS SCRIPT IS RECOMMENDED FOR ALL MySQL<br />      SERVERS IN PRODUCTION USE!  PLEASE READ EACH STEP CAREFULLY!<br /><br />In order to log into MySQL to secure it, we'll need the current<br />password for the root user.  If you've just installed MySQL, and<br />you haven't set the root password yet, the password will be blank,<br />so you should just press enter here.</div></ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\"> Since we just installed the MySQL service, there is no MySQL root password.  As the message indicates, simply press ENTER at the following prompt. </ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\"><div class</ins>=<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">"code_style">Enter current password for root (enter for none):<br /> OK, successfully used password, moving on...</div></ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\"> You'll next be prompted to configure a new MySQL root password.  At the prompt, enter "Y" and then provide a secure password for the root MySQL user.  Remember that secure passwords should contain a mix of letters and numbers and should not be words contained within a dictionary. </ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\"><div class="code_style">Setting the root password ensures that nobody can log into the MySQL<br />root user without the proper authorisation.<br /> Set root password? </ins>[<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">Y</ins>/<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">n] Y<br </ins>/<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">>New password:<br />Re-enter new password:<br /> Password updated successfully!<br />Reloading privilege tables</ins>..<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\"><br </ins>/<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">> ... Success!<</ins>/<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">div></ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\"> Remove the anonymous MySQL user which is intended for testing only </ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\"><div class="code_style">By default, a MySQL installation has an anonymous user, allowing anyone<br />to log into MySQL without having to have a user account created for<br />them.  This is intended only for testing, and to make the installation<br />go a bit smoother.  You should remove them before moving into aproduction environment.<br /> <br />Remove anonymous users? [Y/n</ins>] <ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">Y<br /> ... Success!</div></ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\"> We'll now disable remote logins for the root user.  This will prevent brute force attacks against the root MySQL user's password.  If you don't plan to have outside servers connect to your database, you could take this one step further and block MySQL's port 3306 in your firewall.  This is beyond the scope of this guide. </ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\"><div class="code_style">Normally, root should only be allowed to connect from 'localhost'.  This<br />ensures that someone cannot guess at the root password from the network.<br /><br />Disallow root login remotely? </ins>[<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">Y</ins>/<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">n] Y<br </ins>/<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">> </ins>..<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">. Success!<</ins>/<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">div></ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\"> Remove the the 'test' databaes from MYSQL </ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\"><div class="code_style">By default, MySQL comes with a database named 'test' that anyone can<br </ins>/<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">>access.  This is also intended only for testing, and should be removed<br />before moving into a production environment.<br /><br />Remove test database and access to it? [Y/n</ins>] <ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">Y<br /> - Dropping test database...<br /> ... Success!<br /> - Removing privileges on test database...<br /> ... Success!</div></ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\"> Now reload the privilege tables to have our changes take effect. </ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\"><div class="code_style">Reloading the privilege tables will ensure that all changes made so far<br /> will take effect immediately.<br /> <br /> Reload privilege tables now? </ins>[<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">Y</ins>/<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">n] Y<br </ins>/<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">> </ins>..<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">. Success!<br </ins>/<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">> <br </ins>/<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">> Cleaning up...<</ins>/<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">div></ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\"> We're finished securing MySQL </ins></div></td></tr>\n<tr><td colspan=\"2\"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\"><div class="code_style">All done!  If you've completed all of the above steps, your MySQL<br /> installation should now be secure.<br /> <br /> Thanks for using MySQL!</div></html> [[Category:LAMP Guides]</ins>]</div></td></tr>\n"
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