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Thursday, December 15, 2016

How-To install MediaWiki on Ubuntu 12.04 server


About MediaWiki

MediaWiki is a free open source wiki program that allows users to create their own personal wiki sites. Originally built for Wikpedia, MediaWiki is written in PHP and uses a backend database, like MySQL, to store its data.

Install pre-requisites


malaa@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install tasksel
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
tasksel is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 111 not upgraded.
malaa@ubuntu:~$ 

malaa@ubuntu:~$ sudo tasksel install lamp-server

Package configuration




        ┌─────────────────────────────────────────┤ Co│ While not mandatory, it is highly recommended that you set a password for the MySQL administrative "root" user.  │────│──────┐                                                                                             │
        │ If this field is left blank, the password will not be changed.                                                   │
        │                                                                                                                  │
        │ New password for the MySQL "root" user:                                                                          │
        │                                                                                                                  │
        â”********__________________________________________________________________________________________________________ │
        │                                                                                                                  │
        │                                                    <Ok>k>                                                        │
        │                                                                                                                  │
        └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘



                                                                                                                                   
Package configuration



                                          ┌──────┤ Configuring mysql-server-5.5 ├───────┐
                                          │                                             │
                                          │                                             │
                                          │ Repeat password for the MySQL "root" user:  │
                                          │                                             │
                                          â”********_____________________________________ │
                                          │                                             │
                                          │                 <Ok>k>                      │
                                          │                                             │
                                          └─────────────────────────────────────────────┘


Install MediaWiki

malaa@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install mediawiki
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  php5
Suggested packages:
  imagemagick php5-gd mediawiki-math memcached clamav
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  mediawiki php5
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 137 not upgraded.
Need to get 11.6 MB of archives.
After this operation, 42.3 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates/main php5 all 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.25 [1,080 B]
Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ pre


malaa@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install imagemagick mediawiki-math php5-gd
[sudo] password for malaa: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  cmap-adobe-japan1 doc-base fontconfig fontconfig-config
  gettext ghostscript gs-cjk-resource gsfonts
  imagemagick-common intltool-debian ko.tex-extra-hlfont


Web interface

MediaWiki 1.15.5-7 Installation

Don't forget security updates! Keep an eye on the low-traffic release announcements mailing list.
Checking environment...

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PHP 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.25 installed
Found database drivers for: MySQL
PHP server API is apache2handler; ok, using pretty URLs (index.php/Page_Title)
Have XML / Latin1-UTF-8 conversion support.
Session save path (/var/lib/php5) appears to be valid.
PHP's memory_limit is 128M.
Couldn't find Turck MMCache, eAccelerator, APC or XCache; cannot use these for object caching.
Found GNU diff3: /usr/bin/diff3.
Found ImageMagick: /usr/bin/convert; image thumbnailing will be enabled if you enable uploads.
Found GD graphics library built-in.
Installation directory: /var/lib/mediawiki
Script URI path: /mediawiki
Installing MediaWiki with php file extensions
Environment checked. You can install MediaWiki.


Generating configuration file...
Database type: MySQL
Loading class: DatabaseMysql
Attempting to connect to database server as root...success.
Connected to mysql 5.5.53-0ubuntu0.12.04.1; enabling MySQL 4.1/5.0 charset mode
Attempting to create database...
Created database wikidb
Creating tables... done.
Initializing statistics...
Granting user permissions to wikiuser on wikidb...success.
Created sysop account malaa.
Creating LocalSettings.php...
Installation successful! Move /var/lib/mediawiki/config/LocalSettings.php to /etc/mediawiki, then follow this link to your wiki.
You should change file permissions for LocalSettings.php as required to prevent other users on the server reading passwords and altering configuration data.

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