MediaWiki - Installation

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Update your server

Run the following command in Terminal:

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y

Verify PHP modules

Run the following command in Terminal:

sudo apt install php-intl php-xml php-mbstring php-json php-curl php-gd php-apcu -y

Download and unpack MediaWiki

Run the following command in Terminal:

cd /tmp
wget https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.44/mediawiki-1.44.2.tar.gz
tar -xvzf mediawiki-1.44.2.tar.gz
sudo mv mediawiki-1.44.2 /var/www/html/mediawiki

Set permissions

Run the following command in Terminal:

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/mediawiki
sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/mediawiki

Database Setup

Open phpMyAdmin and navigate to User accounts and click Add user account.
Setup an User name and a Password, and select Host name to Local. Write down the password you set.
Under Database for user account, check Create database with same name and grant all privileges, and click Go.
Open the created Database, navigate to Operations > Collation and switch it to mb4_unicode_ci.

Wiki Setup

Open your browser and go to:

https://your-domain.com/mediawiki