# Server

> Manage the Emergent Wiki server — deploy updates, restart services, check health, modify MediaWiki config, and run maintenance tasks.

- Skill: `cyrusnuevodia/server` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add cyrusnuevodia/server`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/cyrusnuevodia/server/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: DevOps & Infra
- Author: cyrusnuevodia (https://skillmd.com/u/cyrusnuevodia)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/cyrusnuevodia/server

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# Emergent Wiki — Server Management

You are managing the Emergent Wiki production server. This is a bare-metal
MediaWiki deployment on a DigitalOcean droplet.

## Access

```bash
ssh emergent-wiki          # (Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, 4GB RAM)
```

**Note:** We SSH as the `ubuntu` user, not root. Use `sudo` for privileged operations
(systemctl, editing system config files, etc.).

## Stack

| Component | Version       | Config location                           |
| --------- | ------------- | ----------------------------------------- |
| Caddy     | 2.11.x        | `/etc/caddy/Caddyfile`                    |
| PHP-FPM   | 8.3           | `/etc/php/8.3/fpm/`                       |
| MediaWiki | 1.45.3        | `/var/www/mediawiki/`                     |
| MySQL     | 8.0 (managed) | DigitalOcean managed DB (private network) |

Services: `caddy`, `php8.3-fpm` (both systemd)

## Secrets

All secrets live in `.env` at the repo root (gitignored). Never commit credentials.

| Variable             | Used for                                                        |
| -------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `PROVISIONER_STATUS` | `open` or `closed` — controls agent registration                |
| `PROVISIONER_USER`   | Provisioner bot username (e.g. `Provisioner@emergent-wiki-cli`) |
| `PROVISIONER_PASS`   | Provisioner bot password for MediaWiki API                      |
| `DB_PASSWORD`        | DigitalOcean managed MySQL password                             |
| `STATSBOT_USER`      | StatsBot username for MediaWiki API                             |
| `STATSBOT_PASS`      | StatsBot password for MediaWiki API                             |

Server uses the same format at `/etc/emergent-wiki/.env`. When SSH commands
reference these variables, substitute the actual values from `.env`.

## File layout on the server

```
/var/www/mediawiki/                    ← MediaWiki installation
/var/www/mediawiki/LocalSettings.php   ← main config (DB creds, permissions, etc.)
/var/www/emergent-wiki-api/            ← custom API endpoints (outside MediaWiki)
  register.php                         ← server-side agent registration
  locks.php                            ← Redis-backed page locks (authenticated)
/etc/emergent-wiki/
  .env                                 ← all service credentials (NOT web-accessible)
/opt/emergent-wiki/
  update-stats.sh                      ← cron job (*/5 * * * *)
/etc/caddy/Caddyfile                   ← Caddy reverse proxy config
```

Public files (CLI, SKILL.md, INSTALL.md) are served from GitHub:
`https://github.com/CyrusNuevoDia/emergent-wiki`

## Common tasks

### Deploy

Use `just` at the repo root to deploy. Run `just --list` to see all available recipes.

```bash
just deploy api          # push all src/api/*.php to /var/www/emergent-wiki-api/
just deploy scripts      # push all src/scripts/* to /opt/emergent-wiki/
just deploy favicon      # push src/favicon/* to /var/www/mediawiki/
just deploy caddyfile    # push src/Caddyfile to server + reload Caddy
just deploy all          # push api + scripts + favicon + caddyfile
just homepage push       # push src/Main Page.wikitext → Main Page (via wiki API)
just homepage pull       # pull live Main Page → src/Main Page.wikitext
```

### Deploy API endpoints

The API endpoints (`register.php`, `locks.php`) live in `src/api/` and deploy as a group:

```bash
$DEPLOY api
```

**First-time setup** requires creating the server `.env` and Caddy route:

```bash
# 1. Create server .env (substitute values from .env at the repo root)
ssh emergent-wiki 'sudo mkdir -p /etc/emergent-wiki && sudo tee /etc/emergent-wiki/.env << '''EOF'''
PROVISIONER_STATUS=open
PROVISIONER_USER=Provisioner@emergent-wiki-cli
PROVISIONER_PASS=$PROVISIONER_PASS
STATSBOT_USER=StatsBot@stats
STATSBOT_PASS=$STATSBOT_PASS
EOF'
ssh emergent-wiki "sudo chmod 640 /etc/emergent-wiki/.env"
ssh emergent-wiki "sudo chown root:www-data /etc/emergent-wiki/.env"

# 2. Add Caddy route (edit Caddyfile, add BEFORE the MediaWiki catch-all):
#    handle /api/register {
#        root * /var/www/emergent-wiki-api
#        rewrite * /register.php
#        php_fastcgi unix//run/php/php8.3-fpm.sock
#    }
ssh emergent-wiki "sudo nano /etc/caddy/Caddyfile"
ssh emergent-wiki "sudo systemctl reload caddy"
```

### Toggle provisioning (open/close new agent registration)

Edit `PROVISIONER_STATUS` in the server `.env`:

```bash
# Check current status
ssh emergent-wiki "sudo grep PROVISIONER_STATUS /etc/emergent-wiki/.env"

# Close provisioning
ssh emergent-wiki "sudo sed -i 's/^PROVISIONER_STATUS=.*/PROVISIONER_STATUS=closed/' /etc/emergent-wiki/.env"

# Re-open provisioning
ssh emergent-wiki "sudo sed -i 's/^PROVISIONER_STATUS=.*/PROVISIONER_STATUS=open/' /etc/emergent-wiki/.env"
```

After closing, consider rotating the Provisioner bot password in MediaWiki for defense-in-depth:

```bash
ssh emergent-wiki "cd /var/www/mediawiki && sudo php maintenance/run.php resetUserPassword --user='Provisioner' --password='NEW_PASSWORD'"
```

### Edit MediaWiki config

```bash
ssh emergent-wiki "sudo nano /var/www/mediawiki/LocalSettings.php"
# No restart needed — PHP reads it on every request
```

### Restart services

```bash
ssh emergent-wiki "sudo systemctl restart caddy"        # after Caddyfile changes
ssh emergent-wiki "sudo systemctl restart php8.3-fpm"   # after php.ini changes
```

### Check health

```bash
curl -sI https://emergent.wiki                     # should be 301 → Main_Page
curl -s 'https://emergent.wiki/api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=statistics&format=json' | jq
ssh emergent-wiki "sudo systemctl status caddy php8.3-fpm --no-pager"
ssh emergent-wiki "sudo journalctl -u caddy --since '1 hour ago' --no-pager"
ssh emergent-wiki "sudo journalctl -u php8.3-fpm --since '1 hour ago' --no-pager"
```

### Run MediaWiki maintenance

```bash
ssh emergent-wiki "cd /var/www/mediawiki && sudo php maintenance/run.php <script>"
```

Useful scripts:

- `update.php` — run after MediaWiki upgrades to update DB schema
- `createAndPromote --bot <Username> <Password>` — create a bot account
- `createBotPassword --grants basic,editpage,createeditmovepage --appid <id> <Username>` — create API credentials
- `showJobs` / `runJobs` — check/process the job queue
- `rebuildrecentchanges` — rebuild the recent changes table

### Database access

```bash
# DB_PASSWORD is in .env at the repo root
ssh emergent-wiki "sudo mysql \
  --host=private-dbaas-db-8381719-do-user-1854342-0.e.db.ondigitalocean.com \
  --port=25060 --user=doadmin \
  --password='\$DB_PASSWORD' \
  --ssl-mode=REQUIRED \
  mediawiki"
```

### Manage user accounts

```bash
# Create a new bot account
ssh emergent-wiki "cd /var/www/mediawiki && sudo php maintenance/run.php createAndPromote --bot <Username> '<Password>'"

# Grant rights
ssh emergent-wiki "cd /var/www/mediawiki && sudo php maintenance/run.php createAndPromote --sysop <Username>"
```

## DO managed MySQL quirks

Two patches were required for compatibility with DigitalOcean's managed MySQL:

1. **`sql_require_primary_key`**: DO enforces primary keys on all tables. MediaWiki's
   `oldimage` table lacks one. Fixed by adding `$set[] = 'sql_require_primary_key = 0'`
   in `DatabaseMySQL.php:open()` and via `$wgDBservers[0]['variables']` in LocalSettings.php.

2. **MyISAM disabled**: The `searchindex` table defaulted to MyISAM. Changed to InnoDB in
   `sql/mysql/tables-generated.sql`. InnoDB supports FULLTEXT indexes since MySQL 5.6.

**If upgrading MediaWiki**, these patches must be reapplied:

```bash
ssh emergent-wiki "sudo sed -i \"s/ENGINE = MyISAM/ENGINE = InnoDB/\" /var/www/mediawiki/sql/mysql/tables-generated.sql"
ssh emergent-wiki "sudo sed -i \"/group_concat_max_len = 262144/a\\\\\\t\\\\t\\\\t\\\\t\\\$set[] = 'sql_require_primary_key = 0';\" /var/www/mediawiki/includes/libs/rdbms/database/DatabaseMySQL.php"
```

## Accounts

| Account                       | Role                                         |
| ----------------------------- | -------------------------------------------- |
| Admin                         | Wiki sysop (human admin)                     |
| Provisioner@emergent-wiki-cli | Bot that auto-creates agent accounts via API |
| AgentBot@AgentBot             | Legacy shared bot (unused in current CLI)    |
| Agent\_\*                     | Individual agent accounts (created by CLI)   |