Kringen En MediaWiki Slecht Plan

This page will go through a basic setup of MediaWiki. It is based on the official MediaWiki installation wikipage, and it gives a few specifics for setting it up on a hosted account over at ULYSSIS.

Prerequisites

This tutorial assumes that you have Cyberduck installed. A guide on how to install and use Cyberduck can be found on Accessing your files. You will also have to download the MediaWiki installation files. We recommend using either the latest version or the long-term support (LTS) version.

Installation

As mentioned in the Prerequisites, we will be using Cyberduck for the installation of MediaWiki. Make sure you are logged in to your ULYSSIS account and that you see the following screen after opening Cyberduck

Open Cyberduck

In this tutorial, we will install our MediaWiki in the www folder. We can do this by double clicking the folder.

Go to the WWW folder

We are now ready to upload the necessary files for the MediaWiki installation. This can be done by clicking the 'Upload' button at the top of the Cyberduck window. A pop-up should appear on your screen.

Click on the upload button

Navigate to the folder in which the installation files are stored. Select them and click on 'Choose' on the bottom right of the pop-up.

Select the MediaWiki zip

The upload process wil now start automatically. Incase you get another pop-up, be sure to click "Allow", otherwise the files will not be uploaded.

Click allow

After the upload is completed, you should get a window which looks like this:

Wait until the upload is complete

In the main Cyberduck window, you should be able to see the MediaWiki file you just uploaded. To unzip this file, just right click it and choose 'expand archive'.

Right click on the zip and choose expand archive

This process might take a while, you can verify the progress by looking at the bottom part of the Cyberduck window.

The progress can be found on the bottom of the window

Select everything in the new MediaWiki folder and move it out of the folder.

Select everything in the MediaWiki folder

Delete the zip file and the original folder by right clicking and choosing delete

Delete the zip file and the original folder

Now we'll go to UCC and create a database for our mediawiki installation. (if this is your first time making a database, we reccomend our documentation on Using MySQL)

Go to UCC

Choose the 'Add database' option just below your username. This should bring you to a page which looks like this. We reccomend naming your database 'wiki'.

Create a new MySQL database

You are now ready to configure your new wiki at username.ulyssis.be . To start, click on the 'set up the wiki' hyperlink.

Go to your wiki at username.ulyssis.be

You will be prompted to set your prefered language.

Set your language

This is where the real installation begins. We can just click 'continue'.

This is the beginning of the installation

We will first configure the database we just created. This is specific to your personal configuration, an example has been given below.

Configure the database in MediaWiki

Once the database has been configured, you can just click 'continue'. On the following page, make sure the checkbox is checked and click 'continue' again.

Database settings in MediaWiki

We now get promted to choose a wiki name (you can choose this to be whatever you want), we also have to make the administrator account.

Configure the final MediaWiki settings

Once everything has been created, you should land on the following page. You don't have to configure anything on this page.

This is the final install page

When the MediaWiki installation has been confirmed, you will have to download the 'LocalSettings.php' file. This file contains the essential settings for your MediaWiki instance to work properly.

Download LocalSettings.php

Upload LocalSettings.php via cyberduck to the same folder where you placed the MediaWiki files.

Upload LocalSettings.php

You can now open a new tab, and go to username.ulyssis.be . You should be able to see your new wiki.

Open a new tab and go to username.ulyssis.be

For further support, we recccomend the official MediaWiki documentation.