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Asked: 2026-05-11T14:29:04+00:00

For a school project, I have installed MediaWiki on my local machine, and am

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For a school project, I have installed MediaWiki on my local machine, and am required to have any database connection to the local MySQL database use SSL. I am unsure of how to connect all the dots. Here’s what I have done so far:

  1. I have installed OpenSSL, and created a self-signed certificate, and associated keys.
  2. phpinfo() shows OpenSSL as being enabled.
  3. I have included this in the [mysqld] section of my.ini:

ssl-key=’C:/newcerts/server-key.pem’ ssl-cert=’C:/newcerts/server-cert.pem’ ssl-ca=’C:/newcerts/ca-cert.pem’

  1. Running MySQL Command Line prompts me for the root password, and upon entering it, I get Error 1045:Access denied, etc.

  2. Running mysql -u root -p ssl-ca=’C:/newcerts/ca-cert.pem’ from the bin directory and entering the password succeeds, and gives me a mysql prompt. Running status shows SSL: Cipher in use is DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA.

Here’s where I’m confused. What else needs to be done (like through Apache or a PHP config file, or a MediaWiki file) to require database connections to use SSL?

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  1. You’re going to want to use the mysqli extension because the native php/mysql extension does not support SSL. See the mysqli SSL related function:

    http://us.php.net/manual/en/mysqli.ssl-set.php

    That being said, the DB class in MediaWiki is abstracted out, but to the best of my knowledge the existing implemenation uses the regular php/mysql, NOT mysqli so I think you’re going to have write your own mysqli adapter, or maybe somebody already has.

    Either way you will need to get MediaWiki to use a mysqli adapter.

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