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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