Installation

Dependencies

ai nginx php-fpm php-intl php-mbstring php-xml mariadb-server

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;

Configuring PHP

/etc/php/8.2/fpm/php.ini

extension=mysqli

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/