MediaWiki

Here's the basic configuration used for the Nginx wiki.

server { server_name wiki.nginx.org; root /var/www/mediawiki;

client_max_body_size 5m; client_body_timeout 60;

location / { try_files $uri $uri/ @rewrite; }

location @rewrite { rewrite ^/(.*)$ /index.php?title=$1&$args; }

location ^~ /maintenance/ { return 403; }

location ~ \.php$ { include fastcgi_params; fastcgi_pass unix:/tmp/phpfpm.sock; }

location ~* \.(js|css|png|jpg|jpeg|gif|ico)$ { try_files $uri /index.php; expires max; log_not_found off; }

location = /_.gif { expires max; empty_gif; }

location ^~ /cache/ { deny all; }

location /dumps { root /var/www/mediawiki/local; autoindex on; } }

NOTE! In order for this configuration to work, you will need to set "$wgUsePathInfo = TRUE;" in your LocalSettings.php file.

Troubleshooting math markup
After installing the Math extension and enabling TeX you may find that the texvc binary doesn't produce any PNG file, and instead produces the infamous Failed to parse (PNG conversion failed; check for correct installation of latex, dvips, gs, and convert) error.

If nothing obvious can be found such as permissions issues in showing up in the error log, then try running the texvc as root using sudo by changing shell_exec line (around line 123) of extensions/Math/MathTexvc.php to the following: $contents = wfShellExec( "sudo $cmd" );

To allow the web-server to have sudo access without compromising security the following line can be added to /etc/sudoers: www-data ALL=NOPASSWD: /path/to/wiki/extensions/Math/math/texvc