MediaWiki 1.7.1 Installation

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  • PHP 5.2.0-8 installed
  • Found database drivers for: MySQL
  • PHP server API is apache2handler; ok, using pretty URLs (index.php/Page_Title)
  • Have XML / Latin1-UTF-8 conversion support.
  • PHP's memory_limit is 16M. If this is too low, installation may fail! Attempting to raise limit to 20M... ok.
  • Have zlib support; enabling output compression.
  • Neither Turck MMCache nor eAccelerator nor APC are installed, can't use object caching functions
  • Found GNU diff3: /usr/bin/diff3.
  • Found ImageMagick: /usr/bin/convert; image thumbnailing will be enabled if you enable uploads.
  • Installation directory: /var/lib/mediawiki1.7
  • Script URI path: /mediawiki
  • Environment checked. You can install MediaWiki.

Site config

Must not be blank or "MediaWiki"

Preferably a short word without punctuation, i.e. "Wikipedia".
Will appear as the namespace name for "meta" pages, and throughout the interface.

Displayed to users in some error messages, used as the return address for password reminders, and used as the default sender address of e-mail notifications.

Select the language for your wiki's interface. Some localizations aren't fully complete. Unicode (UTF-8) used for all localizations.

  • choose

A notice, icon, and machine-readable copyright metadata will be displayed for the license you pick.

Must not be blank

An admin can lock/delete pages, block users from editing, and other maintenance tasks.
A new account will be added only when creating a new wiki database.

Using a shared memory system such as Turck MMCache, APC, eAccelerator, or Memcached will speed up MediaWiki significantly. Memcached is the best solution but needs to be installed. Specify the server addresses and ports in a comma-separted list. Only use Turck shared memory if the wiki will be running on a single Apache server.

E-mail, e-mail notification and authentication setup

Use this to disable all e-mail functions (password reminders, user-to-user e-mail and e-mail notifications) if sending mail doesn't work on your server.

The user-to-user e-mail feature (Special:Emailuser) lets the wiki act as a relay to allow users to exchange e-mail without publicly advertising their e-mail address.

For this feature to work, an e-mail address must be present for the user account, and the notification options in the user's preferences must be enabled. Also note the authentication option below. When testing the feature, keep in mind that your own changes will never trigger notifications to be sent to yourself.

There are additional options for fine tuning in /includes/DefaultSettings.php; copy these to your LocalSettings.php and edit them there to change them.

If this option is enabled, users have to confirm their e-mail address using a magic link sent to them whenever they set or change it, and only authenticated e-mail addresses can receive mails from other users and/or change notification mails. Setting this option is recommended for public wikis because of potential abuse of the e-mail features above.

Database config

If your database server isn't on your web server, enter the name or IP address here.

Must not be blank

If you only have a single user account and database available, enter those here. If you have database root access (see below) you can specify new accounts/databases to be created.

This account will not be created if it pre-exists. If this is the case, ensure that it has SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE permissions on the MediaWiki database.

If the database user specified above does not exist, or does not have access to create the database (if needed) or tables within it, please provide details of a superuser account, such as root, which does. Leave the password set to - if this is not needed.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. or read it online

MediaWiki is Copyright © 2001-2006 by Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, Gabriel Wicke and others.