IT/Software/Mediawiki/How to Install MediaWiki

Prerequisites

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• Ubuntu Server 18.04.3 LTS
• In my install I have all additions enabled.
• Apache2 Installed
• Installing and setting up MariaDB for MediaWiki is also covered on this page.

Install MariaDB

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1. sudo apt-get install mariadb-server mariadb-client
2. sudo mysql_secure_installation
3. Restart MariaDB
   • sudo systemctl restart mariadb.service

Create MediaWiki Database

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1. sudo mysql -u root -p
2. Then create a database called mediawiki
   • CREATE DATABASE mediawiki;
3. Create a database user called mediawikiuser with new password
   • CREATE USER 'mediawikiuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'new_password_here';
4. Then grant the user full access to the database.
   • GRANT ALL ON mediawiki.* TO 'mediawikiuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'user_password_here' WITH GRANT OPTION;
5. Save and Exit
   • FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
   • EXIT;

Install PHP Modules

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• sudo apt install php7.2 php7.2-mbstring php7.2-xml

Download and Install MediaWiki

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1. Download and extract Mediawiki tarball latest stable version 1.34.0 at time of writing
   • cd /var/www/html
   • Remove default index.html
     • rm index.html
   • wget https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.34/mediawiki-1.34.0.tar.gz
   • tar -xvf mediawiki-1.34.0.tar.gz
   • mv mediawiki-1.34.0 mediawiki
   • Remove tarball
     • rm mediawiki-1.34.0.tar.gz

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