Installation

• Synology NAS
• MariaDB10 installed
• MediaWiki
  • Download latest version and extract to get .tar file, upload and extract to web folder
  • Configure reverse proxy or Web station to use subdomain and Apache server with latest PHP
  • test connection to subdomain (configure DNS if necessary)
  • acquire/register subdomain to HTTPS certificate
• Download GoogleLogin Extension
  • Extract to Extensions folder
  • Modify LocalSettings.php to include extension along with configurations from MediaWiki's site setup for the extension
  • go to google dev console for APIs and credentials https://console.developers.google.com/apis/credentials
  • create OAuth 2.0 Client ID
  • authorized redirect URI is https://wiki.jjjp.ca/index.php?title=Special:GoogleLoginReturn
  • copy the secret and app ID into LocalSettings.php
  • make sure $wgGroupPermissions is set properly

To set so that only 'approved' users can edit and create pages, but all other users can use the Discussion feature, add this to LocalSettings.php

$wgGroupPermissions['approved']['editmain'] = true;
$wgNamespaceProtection[NS_MAIN] = array( 'editmain' );

• remember to use Special:UserRights to add 'approved' users