Tuesday, 16 October 2012

Installation Of MEDIAWIKI from Source


 MediaWiki is a popular free web-based wiki software application. Developed by the Wikimedia Foundation, it is used to run all of its projects, including Wikipedia, Wiktionary and Wikinews. Numerous other wikis around the world also use it to power their websites. It is written in the PHP programming language and uses a backend database.

Installation

1) Downloaded mediawiki application from website.
2) Extracted the file and copied it to the location /home/www/www/
3) Created database named "wiki"
>create database wiki;
Granted permission to the database for the user wikiuser
> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wiki.* TO "wikiuser"@"localhost" IDENTIFIED BY "redhat";
Flushed privilege
>flush privileges;
4) Changed permission of the wordpress file on that location
chown -R www:www /home/www/www/*
Restart Apache and enter the open browser and enter the following address
http://test007.server.com/mediawiki
Follow the instructions during installation and mediawiki will be installed.  

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