Manivel: MediaWiki on CentOS 7

Mediawiki is a free and opensource software for writing the wiki page. More details

For mediawiki installation we have to install the Web server (Apache) , PHP and Database server (MariaDB / Mysql ).

For version compatibility please see this page

Webserver Installation

If you already have the webserver, it is fine. If not you have to install

To install Webserver and PHP

[root@manivel]# yum install httpd php

To start the webserver

[root@manivel]# systemctl start httpd.service

Database Server Installtion

If you already have the webserver, it is fine. If not you have to install

To install mariadb

[root@manivel]# yum install mariadb

To start the mariadb

[root@manivel]# systemctl start mysqld.services

Create mediawiki database

[root@manivel]# mysql -u root -p

MariaDB [(none)]> create database wiki-sysads;

MariaDB [(none)]> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

MediaWiki Download

Download the mediaWiki from official website using "wget" command

[root@manivel]# wget https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.27/mediawiki-1.27.4.tar.gz

Extract the tar file and move to different name i.e mediawiki

[root@manivel]# tar -xvf mediawiki-1.27.4.tar.gz

[root@manivel]# mv mediawiki-1.27.4 mediawiki

MediaWiki web based installation

Open the web browser and type http://systemipaddress/mediawiki

Click on set_up_wiki

Click on continue button

Click on continue button

Give the databases details and Click on continue button

Click on continue button

Give the administrator account details and Click on continue button

Click on continue button

Click on continue button. Here you will get the LocalSettings.php file. Download this file and move to mediawiki root folder. i.e /webserver/mediawiki