PHP Mediawiki Eclipse debugging
Trying to get https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/User:WolfgangFahl/Workdocumentation_2015-12-27 working again
Environment
- LAMP Intranet MediaWiki 1.33 with no security needs in a VMWare environment
lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS
Release: 18.04
Codename: bionic
apachectl -V
Server version: Apache/2.4.29 (Ubuntu)
Server built: 2019-09-16T12:58:48
mysql --version
mysql Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.7.29, for Linux (x86_64) using EditLine wrapper
php --version
PHP 7.2.24-0ubuntu0.18.04.2 (cli) (built: Jan 13 2020 18:39:59) ( NTS )
Copyright (c) 1997-2018 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v3.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2018 Zend Technologies
with Zend OPcache v7.2.24-0ubuntu0.18.04.2, Copyright (c) 1999-2018, by Zend Technologies
Install eclipse php
cd /usr/local/src
# download eclipse-php-2019-12-R-linux-gtk-x86_64.tar.gz from
# https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/
sudo tar xvfz eclipse-php-2019-12-R-linux-gtk-x86_64.tar.gz
Desktop icon
~/Desktop$ cat eclipse.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Name=Eclipse
Exec=/usr/local/src/eclipse/eclipse
Comment=Eclipse 2019 Integrated development environment
Icon=/usr/local/src/eclipse/icon.xpm
StartupWMClass=Eclipse
Install Mediawiki
see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Running_MediaWiki_on_Debian_or_Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install apache2 mysql-server php php-mysql libapache2-mod-php php-xml php-mbstring
/usr/local/src$ sudo wget https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.33/mediawiki-1.33.2.tar.gz
wf@fur:/var/www/html$ sudo tar xvfz /usr/local/src/mediawiki-1.33.2.tar.gz
sudo ln -s mediawiki-1.33.2 wiki
Configure Localsettings.php
set mysql root password
follow steps
and download LocalSettings.php
make phpinfo.php available
<?php
phpinfo();
Install Xdebug
sudo apt-get install php-xdebug php-dev
sudo apt install php-pear
sudo pecl channel-update pecl.php.net
sudo pecl install xdebug
Create first project
New Project "loop" add loop.php in include_path/loop folder
- Try Run / Debug as PHP Cli
- You'll be asked to add PHP env
- Click "add" to add a New PHP Executable
- use /usr/bin/php as Executable path
- Click "finish"
- Click "Apply and Close"
Create Project
make sure your user is part of group www-data
/var/www/html$ sudo chown www-data.www-data mediawiki-1.33.2
/var/www/html$ sudo chmod g+w mediawiki-1.33.2/
/var/www/html$ sudo chown -R www-data.www-data wiki
Create Eclipse project with "open project from existing source" using /var/www/html/wiki as the source folder