Add a wiki database

Add a wiki database Organic Design procedure

New wiki databases are added by copying from a template database for the version of MediaWiki the wiki will run on. A template exist for every code-base in the wikia because they get created during the install a MediaWiki code-base procedure.

If you intend on creating the new wiki in a new database, you'll first need to create the new database manually, for example by logging in to MySQL:

create database foo;

You can then make a copy of the template database and define a table prefix for the new wiki tables using our add-db script as follows. The best practice is that a table prefix should always be used even if there is only one wiki, and the prefix should always end with an underscore character.

/var/www/add-db empty-1.13,sql foo.bar_ foo.baz_

In this example, two wiki databases have been added at one, both in the new "foo" database we created, one wiki has tables prefixed by "bar_" and the other by "baz_".

Next

After installing a wiki database, you can then install a new wiki.

See also

• Install a MediaWiki code-base
• Install a new wiki
• add-db.pl