Installing Mediawiki

Finally, my first proper post on this blog! Well, I was installing MediaWiki 1.7.1 the other day and was reminded just what a breeze it is!

The steps are:

1. Ensure PHP, MySQL, and other pre-requisites are installed.
2. Then decompress the source into a directory, which is either in webroot or is symbolically linked there (my personal favourite).
3. If you're finicky, you'd like to create the MySQL user and database before installing, otherwise just leave it to MediaWiki.
4. Open the form for configuration and installation, fill in the required details, and you're up and running! Oh, you can accomplish step 3 here by just specifying the username and database name you want to create along with the MySQL root account's password.

You can find the complete installation manual here. This document provides some useful tips for configuring the Wiki.