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3.1	Configuration / First Steps
3.2	Post Installation Files

Requirements / Prerequisites

• Apache
• PHP
• MySQL
• eAccelerator (if running in Cache mode)
• GD library or ImageMagick (if image thumbnailing enabled)
  

  yum install ImageMagick

Reto's very quick installation guide

1. Download MediaWiki: www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download↑

2. gzip -cd mediawiki-1.5.2.tar.gz|tar -x

3. Move the extracted directory (e.g. mediawiki-1.5.2) to your webserver's document root.
4. Make your webserver user to the owner of the extracted files.

   chown -R nobody wiki-foo

5. Create a database user.

   mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'wikiuser'@'localhost';
   mysql> CONNECT mysql; -- connect to system table
   mysql> UPDATE user SET Password=PASSWORD('foo') WHERE User='wikiuser' AND Host='localhost';
   mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

6. Open URL (e.g.) localhost/wiki-foo/config/↑
7. cd to your Wiki path

   mv config/LocalSettings.php .

Post Installation stuff:

• Enable uploading: Uploading
• Block anonymous users
• 
  

  Security Issue: cd wiki_path; mv maintenance maintenance_smth

  
  

I have tested MediaWiki 1.5.2 with PHP 5.0.4 (apache2handler) and MySQL 4.1.14.

Check Version(s) of MediaWiki installation:
localhost/wiki/index.php/Special:Version↑

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See also:
Post installation files

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