MediaWiki Vagrant

A portable MediaWiki development environment.

Prerequisites

You'll need to install Vagrant and VirtualBox (>= 4.1).

You must enable hardware virtualization (VT-x or AMD-V). This is often a BIOS setting.

Installation

git clone https://github.com/wikimedia/wmf-vagrant.git
cd ./wmf-vagrant
git submodule update --init
vagrant up

It'll take some time, because it'll need to fetch the base precise64 box if you don't already have it. Once it's done, you should be able to browse to http://127.0.0.1:8080/w/ and see a vanilla MediaWiki install, served by the guest VM, which is running Ubuntu Precise 64-bit.

The mediawiki/ sub-folder in the repository is mounted as /srv/mediawiki, and port 8080 on the host is forwarded to port 80 on the guest.

The MySQL root credentials are:

• Username: root
• Password: vagrant

The MediaWiki credentials are:

• Username: admin
• Password: vagrant

To SSH into your VM, simply type vagrant ssh.