#Install mediawiki install
#Install mediawiki update
#Install mediawiki code
#Install mediawiki password
#Install mediawiki download

#Install mediawiki password

* Name and password for the SysOp (main administrator for the wiki) After that it will need to setup some settings about your system, such as : During the configuration it will do some preliminary checks to see that it can run MediaWiki and the required applications are installed.

#Install mediawiki update

Remove the sources.list line you added, then update your APT index again.Ĭonfiguration is done at (substitute localhost with your hostname). Remember: if you are not familiar with APT and temporarily added Etch sources above, now is the time to remove them. The MediaWiki installation should now be done. To do so, add an appropriate line to sources.list, then update your APT index. One way could be to temporarily add Etch sources. If the way to do this is not obvious, beware. Make sure the following lines are uncommented:Īs mediawiki is not in sarge, you need to get it from etch or unstable.

Set the memory limit to 20M (at least, default is 8M): Mysqladmin -u root password 'default admin password'Ĭonfigure PHP # editor /etc/php4/apache2/php.ini Most of all you need to apply mysql root password.

#Install mediawiki install

# apt-get install apache2 libapache2-mod-php4 For example, to install Apache 2 and the PHP module for it using apt-get: Install the Apache version you prefer and the PHP module for that Apache version. Optionally, install php4-gd and php4-imagick. Install PHP and the MySQL module for PHP by installing the packages php4 and php4-mysql. For example, to install MySQL 4.0 using apt-get: You can copy the LocalSettings.php file from your computer to the server with SCP (Secure Copy): scp /path/to/LocalSettings.Install the MySQL version you prefer. Once the LocalSettings.php file finishes downloading, upload it to /etc/mediawiki or whichever directory contains MediaWiki’s “index.php” file on your VPS. Press continue until you reach the page that says, “Complete!” When you reach the “MySQL settings” section of the setup page, leave the Database Host as localhost enter in the MySQL database name, username, and password which you setup in the previous steps. MediaWiki will now be configured through your browser’s on-screen instructions. Grant index, create, select, insert, update, delete, alter, lock tables on my_wiki.* to identified by ‘password’ Replace “wikiuser” and “password” with your own specifications. Next you will provide a user for the new database with the permissions that MediaWiki requires. You can name your DB whatever you’d like- here it will be example_wiki. The default directory for the downloaded contents includes the specified version of the platform- it may be best to move the contents to a more convenient location:Ĭreate a symbolic link between the MediaWiki directory and Apache’s document root:Ĭreating a MySQL database is simple and increases security, as it eliminates the need for sharing the MySQL root information.

#Install mediawiki download

Go to MediaWiki’s official website and download the latest version of the platform:Īfter the download completes untar the package:

#Install mediawiki code

To check for the latest version of the platform, visit their website and simply alter the code to match the most updated version (if desirable). Install MediaWiki on your VPSĪt the time of writing, the latest version of MediaWiki is MediaWiki 1.21.2. If you don’t have the Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP stack on your server, you can find the tutorial for setting it up here: CentOS LAMP Installation Tutorial.

Originally built for Wikpedia, it is now used by thousands of other projects due to its scalability and high customization.īefore working with MediaWiki, you need to have LAMP installed on your server. MediaWiki is a free open source wiki program that allows users to create their own personal wiki sites. The following DigitalOcean tutorial may be of immediate interest, as it outlines installing MediaWiki on a CentOS 7 server: If available, we strongly recommend using a guide written for the version of CentOS you are using. This guide might still be useful as a reference, but may not work on other CentOS releases. For this reason, this guide is no longer maintained. If you are currently operating a server running CentOS 6, we highly recommend upgrading or migrating to a supported version of CentOS.ĬentOS 6 reached end of life (EOL) on November 30th, 2020 and no longer receives security patches or updates.

This article covers a version of CentOS that is no longer supported.