Install a new wiki

Install a new wiki Organic Design procedure

• Add a wiki database
• cp -pR template
• create a LocalSettings.php and set ownership to www-data so they can be filesync'd if you like
  • Make sure benders password is removed from LocalSettings.php, it should only be in Wikia.php
  • extensions and sets (GeneralExtensions.php and WikiWebExtensions.php)
  • include order (specialpages first)
  • packages
  • examples and templates of settings files
• create symlinks to the new wiki from the necessary domains

ln -s /var/www/wikis/foo /var/www/domains.foo.com

File structure

<bash> /var/www/domains/tmp.peerix.org -> /var/www/wikis/template /var/www/wikis/template/ /var/www/wikis/template/LocalSettings.php # Individual configuration /var/www/wikis/template/wiki -> /var/www/mediawiki-1.10.0/ # Symbolic link to common MediaWiki instance /var/www/wikis/template/files/ # Images filesystem hash table /var/www/wikis/template/template.sql # MySQL dump of template database </bash>

Creating wikia structure

Wiki.sh