How to Install MediaWiki in Ubuntu

To Install MediaWiki in Ubuntu

MediaWiki is a PHP wiki package designed for use on Wikipedia. It allows you to create your own personal wiki site. It is an extremely powerful and a featured wiki implementation, which also shows the data stored in a database. Installation of the MediaWiki in Ubuntu is explained in this article.

Installation of Mediawiki

Before installing mediawiki, you need to install LAMP server with following link,

https://www.linuxhelp.com/how-to-install-lamp-by-using-tasksel-tool-in-ubuntu/

Utilize the following command to install the PHP modules and dependency packages.

root@linuxhelp:/home/user1# apt-get install php5-intl
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
..
..
Creating config file /etc/php5/mods-available/intl.ini with new version
php5_invoke: Enable module intl for cli SAPI
php5_invoke: Enable module intl for apache2 SAPI
Processing triggers for libapache2-mod-php5 (5.6.11+dfsg-1ubuntu3.4) ...
root@linuxhelp:/home/user1# apt-get install php5-gd
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
&hellip 
&hellip 
php5_invoke: Enable module gd for cli SAPI
php5_invoke: Enable module gd for apache2 SAPI
Processing triggers for libapache2-mod-php5 (5.6.11+dfsg-1ubuntu3.4) ...

If you want to install texlive and php5-xcache packages then run the following command.

root@linuxhelp:/home/user1# apt-get install texlive php5-xcache

Restart the Apache web server to take effect.

root@linuxhelp:/home/user1# service apache2 restart

Now its time to download the mediawiki package.

root@linuxhelp:/home/user1# wget http://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.24/mediawiki-1.24.1.tar.gz
--2016-11-23 13:46:11--  http://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.24/mediawiki-1.24.1.tar.gz
Resolving releases.wikimedia.org (releases.wikimedia.org)... 91.198.174.217, 2620:0:862:ed1a::3:d
Connecting to releases.wikimedia.org (releases.wikimedia.org)|91.198.174.217|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
Location: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.24/mediawiki-1.24.1.tar.gz [following]
--2016-11-23 13:46:12--  https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.24/mediawiki-1.24.1.tar.gz
Connecting to releases.wikimedia.org (releases.wikimedia.org)|91.198.174.217|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 20725572 (20M) [application/x-gzip]
Saving to: ‘ mediawiki-1.24.1.tar.gz’ 
mediawiki-1.24.1.tar.gz   100%[======================================> ]  19.76M   150KB/s   in 2m 22s 
2016-11-23 13:48:35 (143 KB/s) - ‘ mediawiki-1.24.1.tar.gz’  saved [20725572/20725572]

Immediately extract the downloaded package.

root@linuxhelp:/home/user1# tar -xvf mediawiki-1.24.1.tar.gz
mediawiki-1.24.1/
mediawiki-1.24.1/HISTORY
mediawiki-1.24.1/CREDITS
mediawiki-1.24.1/api.php
mediawiki-1.24.1/profileinfo.php5
&hellip 
&hellip 
mediawiki-1.24.1/skins/Modern/resources/images/footer-grad.png
mediawiki-1.24.1/skins/Modern/resources/images/bullet.gif
mediawiki-1.24.1/skins/Modern/resources/images/video.png
mediawiki-1.24.1/skins/Modern/resources/images/discussionitem_icon.gif
mediawiki-1.24.1/skins/Modern/resources/images/document.png

Move the extracted files to HTML directory.

root@linuxhelp:/home/user1# mv mediawiki-1.24.1/* /var/www/html

Once the files are moved, then create a database for mediawiki.

root@linuxhelp:/home/user1# mysql -u root -p
Enter password: 
Welcome to the MariaDB monitor.  Commands end with   or g.
Your MariaDB connection id is 53
Server version: 10.0.25-MariaDB-0ubuntu0.15.10.1 (Ubuntu)
Copyright (c) 2000, 2016, Oracle, MariaDB Corporation Ab and others.
Type ' help '  or ' h'  for help. Type ' c'  to clear the current input statement.
MariaDB [(none)]>  create database my_wiki 
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.06 sec)
MariaDB [(none)]>  GRANT INDEX, CREATE, SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, ALTER, LOCK TABLES ON my_wiki.* TO ' wiki' @' localhost'  IDENTIFIED BY ' password'  
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.14 sec)
MariaDB [(none)]>  FLUSH PRIVILEGES 
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.02 sec)
MariaDB [(none)]>  exit
Bye

Open the web browser and navigate to http://IP address/index.php. Mediawiki installer page will appears as shown below,

Select your language.

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/html# apt-get install php5-mysql
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  php5-mysql
&hellip 
&hellip 
Creating config file /etc/php5/mods-available/pdo_mysql.ini with new version
php5_invoke: Enable module pdo_mysql for cli SAPI
php5_invoke: Enable module pdo_mysql for apache2 SAPI
Processing triggers for libapache2-mod-php5 (5.6.11+dfsg-1ubuntu3.4) ...

root@linuxhelp:/home/user1# service apache2 restart

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/html# nano LocalSettings.php