Talk:Install a new wiki

from windows

Prerequisite

• FTP
• Geany
• Database

Exercise

• download latest version of mediawiki
• set up database (must have access to client's server)
• upload the wiki via FTP
• run the config (example: http://localhost/wiki/config)

• 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
  • Note there should be no DB user or password in any LocalSettings.php files, 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