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This tutorial describes the installation process of MediaWiki on Ubuntu server. We assume you have already MySQL and Apache installed.

First we start installing the mediawiki software:

$ sudo apt-get install mediawiki

Add the following to your /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default file.

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin info@yourdomain.com
    ServerName wiki.yourdomain.com
    DocumentRoot /var/lib/mediawiki

    <Directory /var/lib/mediawiki/>
        Options +FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
        order allow,deny
        allow from all

        #authentication scheme
        AuthType Basic
        AuthName "CompanyWiki"
        AuthUserFile /yourhtaccesspath/.htpasswd
        Require valid-user

    </Directory>

    # some directories must be protected
    <Directory /var/lib/mediawiki/config>
        Options -FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
    </Directory>
    <Directory /var/lib/mediawiki/upload>
        Options -FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
    </Directory>

</VirtualHost>

Since our wiki is for employees only, we protected the wiki with a .htaccess file. Therefore I have added these lines:

        #authentication scheme
        AuthType Basic
        AuthName "CompanyWiki"
        AuthUserFile /yourhtaccesspath/.htpasswd
        Require valid-user

If you want to create a public wiki, you should remove these lines.

Restart Apache in order to load the new configuration:

$ sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Now it is time to setup our MySQL database. Login to MySQL:

$ mysql -uroot -p

Create the mediawiki database

create database mediawiki;

Create a wiki user (if needed).

create user 'wikiuser'@'localhost' identified by 'yourpassword';

Grant privileges to the wikiuser

grant select, insert, update, delete, create,
     index on mediawiki.* to 'wikiuser'@'localhost';

You can now visit your wiki and follow the instruction at: http://wiki.yourdomain.com

If everything worked out well you should see a message like the screenshow below. Congratulations you have successfully installed your MediaWiki!

MediaWiki installed successfully

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