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

Script for automation later

Creating wikia structure automatically

<bash> url=foo.com documentroot=/var/www/ mapdir=fodda templatedir=template version=1.11.0

1. 1) Check directories exist

if [ ! -d $documentroot/domains ] then

mkdir $documentroot/domains

fi

if [ ! -d $documentroot/wikis ] then

mkdir $documentroot/wikis

fi

mkdir $documentroot/wikis/$mapdir

1. 2) Mapping

ln -s $documentroot/wikis/$mapdir $documentroot/domains/$url ln -s $documentroot/mediawiki-$version $documentroot/wikis/$mapdir/wiki cp -p $documentroot/wikis/$templatedir/LocalSettings.php $documentroot/wikis/$mapdir cp -pR $documentroot/wikis/$templatedir/files $documentroot/wikis/$mapdir </bash>

Add-db

• Takes one of the empty-x.xx.sql files and creates a new wiki from it with the given db name and prefix
• Or it can take an existing wiki db/prefix as the source instead of a empty-x.xx
• The --sysop param is to set the sysop name and pwd for the new wiki