Help:Running MediaWiki on Mandrake
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Quick Installation on Mandrake 10 Official
This is a short description and protocol of my installation.
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Installed Packages
- apache2-2.0.48-6.2.100
- apache2-mod_php-2.0.48_4.3.4-1
- php-mysql-4.3.4-1
- php-iconv-4.3.4-1
- php-apc-4.3.4_2.0
- php-xml-4.3.4-1
- MySQL 4.0.18-1.1.100
- ImageMagick 5.5.7.15-6plf
- zlib should be already installed
Download mediawiki-1.x.x.tar.gz and extract to /var/www/html and rename the base directory :
>mv mediawiki-1.x.x wiki
MySQL
If you haven't yet configured the mysql database, you should at least set the passwords.
New installation
Setting password for default accounts.
>mysql -u root
SET PASSWORD FOR ''@'localhost' = PASSWORD('xxx');
SET PASSWORD FOR ''@'hostname' = PASSWORD('xxx');
SET PASSWORD FOR 'root'@'localhost' = PASSWORD('xxx');
SET PASSWORD FOR 'root'@'hostname' = PASSWORD('xxx');
Replace hostname with your REAL name and xxx with your password.
For information on accounts, type:
SELECT host, user from mysql.user;
Create Database
CREATE DATABASE wikidb; USE mysql; GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wikidb.* to 'wikiuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'your_password' WITH GRANT OPTION;
Replace your_password with your own password. Maybe less privileges can be granted, but I didn't find any documentation concerning this.
For a list of databases
SHOW DATABASES;
LocalSettings.php will be created in this directory and therefore write rights are necessary.
chmod ugo+w /var/www/html/wiki/config
Browse to http://localhost/wiki/config/index.php and fill in all necessary information. Copy the result.
cp /var/www/html/wiki/config/LocalSettings.php /var/www/html/wiki
Remove all right from config directory.
chmod 000 /var/www/html/wiki/config
Browse to your wiki http://localhost/wiki/index.php. Create your own user. Afterwards grant admin rights to your user with Replace "own_user" with your username created on the wiki site:
UPDATE user set user_rights='sysop' where user_name='own_user'
Enable Upload
Add write right to the images directory:
chmod ugo+w /var/www/html/wiki/images
In /var/www/html/wiki/LocalSettings.php uncomment
$wgDisableUploads= false;
I updated recently to version 1.3.1. No problems.
Steps:
- make backup of database and files
- remove all files, except the images directory
- extract the new version
- go to web-installer (use the same encoding, otherwise your umlaute are lost)
- copy LocalSettings.php and change settings like above.
READY! Mikegr 22:25, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Update and fix for "No XML" message
I'm using Mandrake 10 community and all the versions listed above match what I have. I followed these instructions but hit a stumbling block when loading the initial config page (http://localhost/wiki/config/index.php) the page loaded but said I had no XML installed. I fired up urpmi and got php-xml but got the same message, even after restarting Apache and going as far as rebooting. I tracked things down and finally had to:
- rm the /etc/php dir (which was empty), and
- make a symlink to the /etc/php.d dir (which had the extension modules in it)
I then restarted Apache and everything worked fine from there.
