Mediawiki and Ubuntu

Installation

Dependencies

ai nginx mariadb-server \ php-fpm php-intl php-mbstring php-xml php-mysql php-apcu php-gd

Get Mediawiki

wget https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.40/mediawiki-1.40.0.tar.gz tar xf mediawiki-*.tar.gz sudo mv -T mediawiki-* /var/www/mediawiki

Configuring MariaDB

create database mediawiki; -- create a new user and grant him access rights grant index, create, select, insert, update, delete, alter, lock tables on mediawiki.* TO 'mediawiki'@'localhost' identified by 'password'; commit;

Folder rights

Folders cache and images must be writable by the nginx user www-data.

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data images/ sudo chown -R www-data:www-data cache/