#MEDIAWIKI INSTALLATION HOW TO#
#MEDIAWIKI INSTALLATION UPDATE#

If the test file works then check the PHP error log, if it doesn't then chances are PHP won't have any errors and you will need to have IT services check the configuration and confirm that PHP is supported on your specific account. MediaWiki is a free software open source wiki package written in PHP, originally for use on Wikipedia.The software is optimized to correctly and efficiently handle projects of all sizes, including the largest wikis, which can have terabytes of content and hundreds of thousands of hits per second.Because Wikipedia is one of the world's largest websites, achieving scalability through multiple. MediaWiki Utilities is an open source (MIT Licensed) library developed by Aaron Halfaker for extracting and processing data from MediaWiki installations, slave. Create a new server, choosing Ubuntu 20.04 as the operating system with at least 2GB RAM. As a test try uploading a file and add to it something simple like īy doing this test you will be able to confirm if the issue is a configuration error preventing PHP from working at all, or if there is some permission error which is preventing certain required includes from being accessed. First, log in to your Atlantic.Net Cloud Server. The fact that you are seeing the message showing up would tend to indicate to me that it could even be an issue with running PHP from your account with the shared hosting.

#MEDIAWIKI INSTALLATION HOW TO#

Permission Error - There have been instances I have been aware of where the index.php file has been owned for some reason by user ID '0' which is the root user and the other files have been owned by another user (normally yourself) which can cause issues, ensure that all files in your installation are owned by yourself.Ĭheck the PHP and Apache error files. How to install MediaWiki create a database for the application download the installation package from the official site upload the installation pack on your.

#MEDIAWIKI INSTALLATION UPDATE#

Use these instructions to update an existing Semantic MediaWiki installation.

PHP Safe Mode - Safe mode was depreciated in PHP v5.3 and has been known to cause issues with MediaWiki, speak to IT services about disabling it as it has been depreciated and as of PHP v 5.4 has been removed and is no longer supported. Test your installation as described on the help page about testing Semantic MediaWiki.

Mediawiki installation