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How to Install MediaWiki on Dedicated Server ?
MediaWiki is an open source project released beneath the GNU/GPL terms. Basically, it is a PHP based free software package, same as wikipedia. After the launch of this mediawiki software package, most of the other non-profit projects of wikimedia foundation are using by this software. As this software is used by most of the large sites, which needs an dedicated server hosting plan to host it.
This software isn’t associated with the Fantastico installation tool, however are often installed through Softaculous one-click installer. This is often the main reason, most of the people gets confused when installing this software on the dedicated server manually. One has to pass with more configuration steps. The detailed MediaWiki installation steps are as follow:
Steps before installing MediaWiki Software:
Step 1: Setting up the Database
In order to learn how to create a MySQL database and user, please go through our tutorial.
Tutorial: How to Create MySQL Database and User ?
Step 2: Upload the Files
Visit the MediaWiki official website and download the latest release of the software and upload it to your hosting account using the File Manager Tool or your favorite FTP client.
MediaWiki Installation Steps:
Check where you have extracted the files. If you have extracted the files in the public_html folder, then you should navigate to the following URL in the browser in order to start the installation of mediawiki.
www.yourdomain.com/wiki
The following page will appear on your computer screen with a message “Please set up the wiki first”.
Click on the “Set up the wiki” link and you will be redirected to the “Site config” page.
Step 1: Site config
On the Site config page, you will require to fill the required information to continue the installation. Information such as Wikiname, Contact e-mail, Language, Copyright/license, Admin username, Password, Password confirm, Shared memory caching and Memcached servers as shown in the image below:
Step 2: E-mail, e-mail notification and authentication setup
Here you will have to configure the email features for your Wiki as shown in the image below:
Step 3: Database config
On this database config page, you will require to setup a database for your wiki as shown in the image below:
Database type: select the MySQL
Database host: type localhost
Database name, DB username, DB password: enter the database details you created before starting with the mediawiki installation steps.
Leave the “Superuser account” option as it is.
Step 4: MySQL specific options
On this page, you need to configure the MySQL specific options as shown in the image below:
Database table prefix: Leave it blank or type a table prefix, (ex: mw_ or wiki_).
Storage Engine: Select MyISAM, as it is a default engine of MySQL.
Database character set: Select the “Backwards-compatible UTF-8” option.
Step 5: When you are done with the above configurations, click on the “Install MediaWiki!” button.
“Installation Successful” message will come on your screen, if the configuration has been done according to the setting shown above.
Once the above installation successful message appears on your screen, move the config/LocalSettings.php file to the parent directory.