MediaWiki is a free software open source Wiki package written in PHP. This is a article about, how to install MediaWiki on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
Minimum requirements for installing MediaWiki:
- Any 64 bit processor
- 256 MB RAM
- 85 MB disk space
Preparing for installation
Update the OS with the latest packages
apt-get update apt-get -y dist-upgrade
Reboot the machine if the kernel is upgraded
reboot
LAMP server Installation
Install LAMP server by using the following command
apt-get install apache2 mysql-server php5 php5-mysql libapache2-mod-php5
Download the packages
Download the MediaWiki LTS package
wget https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.23/mediawiki-1.23.11.tar.gz
Extract the package file to a directory
tar -xvzf mediawiki-1.23.11.tar.gz
Create a directory named mediawiki in /var/lib/
mkdir /var/lib/mediawiki
Move the contents of the extracted directory to the newly created directory
mv mediawiki-1.23.11/* /var/lib/mediawiki/
Secure the MySQL installation
mysql_secure_installation
Change directory to /var/www/html
cd /var/www/html
Create a soft link to /var/lib/mediawiki in this folder named mediawiki
ln -s /var/lib/mediawiki mediawiki
Once this is done load the webpage by using the following URL
http://<ip-address>/mediawiki
Complete the installation through the web pages. Once the installation is complete, download the file LocalSettings.php. Then upload the downloaded file to the server using the following command
scp Downloads/LocalSettings.php root@:/var/lib/mediawiki/
Reload the webpage and here you go, your MediaWiki server is ready.
