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 reccomend using either the latest version or the long-term support (LTS) version.
Installation
As mentioned in the Prerequisites, we'll use Cyberduck for the installation of MediaWiki. Make sure you are logged in to you ULYSSIS account, and that you see the following screen.
In this tutorial, we will install our MediaWiki in the www folder. We can do this by double clicking the 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 popup should appear on your screen.
Navigate to the folder in which the installation files are stored. Select them and click on 'Choose' on the bottom right of the popup.
The upload process wil now start automatically. It is possible that you get another popup, be sure to click 'Allow'. Otherwise, the files will not be uploaded.
If the upload has completed, you should get a window which looks like this:
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'.
This process might take a while, you can verify the progress by looking at the bottom part of the Cyberduck window.
Select everything in the new MediaWiki folder and move it outside of the folder.
Delete the zip file and the original folder by right clicking and choosing delete
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)
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'.
You are now ready to configure your new wiki at username.ulyssis.be . To start, click on the 'set up the wiki' hyperlink.
You will be prompted to set your prefered language.
This is where the real installation begins. We can just click 'continue'.
We will first configure the database we just created. This is specific to your personal configuration, an example has been given below.
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.
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.
Once everything has been created, you should land on the following page. You don't have to configure anything on this 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.
Upload LocalSettings.php via cyberduck to the same folder where you placed the MediaWiki files.
You can now open a new tab, and go to username.ulyssis.be . You should be able to see your new wiki.
For further support, we recccomend the official MediaWiki documentation.
