#GIT DOWNLOAD INSTALL#

If the default PHP CLI version does not match the web server's PHP version, specify it with e.g.

#GIT DOWNLOAD INSTALL#

Download and install the composer PHAR, optionally rename the composer.phar file as instructed for your OS, and then run composer update -no-dev from your MediaWiki directory.

To install these needed libraries, you have a choice: MediaWiki uses Composer to manage external PHP libraries, all of which end up in the vendor/ directory in your MediaWiki directory. Then, in a terminal window, enter the following command to clone with your ssh so that you can submit patches for review: The latest development version of MediaWiki is tracked in the 'master' branch.įirst make sure that you have created a developer account, so that you have an ssh username. The first step is to clone the MediaWiki core repository. You can download MediaWiki core using Git, as well as all extensions currently installed on the Wikimedia Foundation server cluster and many other extensions hosted on Gerrit. It is recommended that you have Composer installed to download and install third party libraries, but not required. There are many ways to acquire Git, depending on your operating system.įollow Gerrit/Tutorial#Set up Git, or use your favorite search engine. You must have Git installed before you can use it. Below are some quick directions for a couple common tasks. See Git for more details, particularly for making contributions.

If you do not want to develop but only install MediaWiki and extensions, then download stable tarball releases instead.

You should download from Git if you are a developer and want to submit patches. It allows you to download the very latest version of the source code, with all the branches and tagged releases at your disposal. Git is a distributed version control system.

Git download