MediaWiki for a Museum (Installation)

This page is part of the article

and describes the Installation.

After copying into another Wiki the new name of the page can be found commented out in the sorce code:

Delete the lines above and below containing the following characters:

<nowiki><!-- --></nowiki>

Finally in the source code the line should be look like this:

[[{{ns:project}}:Installation]]

Using this link the new page can be created and the whole source code should be copied and pasted there.

Customizing the chapter Installation[edit | edit source]

Some of the specifications have to be customized for the installation:

[local path]
[Name of the intranet directory]
[Domain]

Formatting and square brackets (''[]'') have to be removed after the import of the source code into another Wiki to make the links work.

Installation[edit | edit source]

The following data were documented during the installation of the Page|Museums]] and afterwards pasted in the page Museums:Installation.

Packet unpacked, Version 1.10.1
Directory (wiki) copied to /[local path]/http_files/[Name of the intranet directory]/docs/
Missing packets installed: php5-mysql, mysql-devel, php5-gd

Installation skript[edit | edit source]

Start of the installation script (Websetup)
Output: MediaWiki 1.10.1 Installation
- Checking environment...
- Please include all of the lines below when reporting installation problems.
  - PHP 5.1.2 installed
  - Found database drivers for: MySQL
  - PHP server API is apache2handler; ok, using pretty URLs (index.php/Page_Title)
  - Have XML / Latin1-UTF-8 conversion support.
  - Session save path (/var/lib/php5) appears to be valid.
  - PHP's memory_limit is 8M. Attempting to raise limit to 20M... ok.
  - Couldn't find Turck MMCache, eAccelerator, or APC. Object caching functions cannot be used.
  - Found GNU diff3: /usr/bin/diff3.
  - Couldn't find GD library or ImageMagick; image thumbnailing disabled.
  - Installation directory: /[local path]/http_files/[Name of the intranet directory]/docs/wiki
  - Script URI path: /wiki
  - Environment checked. You can install MediaWiki.

Site config[edit | edit source]

Part	Parameter	Value
Site config	Installation directory	/[local path]/http_files/[Name of the intranet directory]/docs/wiki
Site config	Script URI path	/wiki
Site config	Wiki name	Museums
Site config	Contact e-mail	wiki-admin@[Domain]
Site config	Language	de - Deutsch
Site config	Copyright/license	GNU Free Documentation License
Site config	Admin username	WikiSysop
Site config	Password	[*******]
Site config	Shared memory caching	No caching
E-mail, e-mail notification and authentication setup	E-mail features (global)	Enabled
E-mail, e-mail notification and authentication setup	User-to-user e-mail	Enabled
E-mail, e-mail notification and authentication setup	E-mail notification about changes	Enabled for changes to user discussion pages, and to pages on watchlists (not recommended for large wikis)
E-mail, e-mail notification and authentication setup	E-mail address authentication	Enabled
Database config	Database type	MySQL
Database config	Database host	localhost
Database config	Database name	wikidb
Database config	DB username	wikiuser
Database config	DB password	[***********]
Database config	Superuser account	yes
Database config	Superuser name	root
Database config	Superuser password	[***********]
Database config	Database table prefix	mw_
Database config	Database charset	Backwards-compatible UTF-8

Finish[edit | edit source]

File Localsettings.php copied from ~/wiki/config to ~/wiki, ~/wiki/config deleted
Test URL: http://testwiki.[Domain].de/wiki
Aliases added to file wiki.conf

Additional installations[edit | edit source]

Ploticus[edit | edit source]

see also Museums:Configuration/Setup No. 8

Download http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?groupname=ploticus&filename=pl233src.tar.gz&use_mirror=belnet
gunzip and tar xf
make | make install
- Problems with make
  - Solution: Makeinstall changed:
    - XLIBS = -L/usr/X11R6/lib64 -lX11
To build libploticus do: make clean; make -f Makefile_api
- The result will be libploticus.a
libploticus.a copied to /usr/X11R6/lib64/
export PLOTICUS_PREFABS=/opt/pl233src/prefabs/

ImageMagick[edit | edit source]

see also Museums:Configuration/Setup No. 9

Vers. 6.3.5-8
Download ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/pub/graphics/ImageMagick/
gunzip ImageMagick.tar.gz | tar xvf –
cd ImageMagic* | ./configure | make | make install
Test (/usr/local/bin/convert logo: logo.gif) failed
- (error while loading shared li-braries: libMagick.so.10: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)
- Fix:

The following should solve the problem:
Edit your /etc/ld.so.conf and add the line:
Code:
/usr/local/lib
Save the file, then run the command:
Code:
/sbin/ldconfig

phpMyAdmin[edit | edit source]

see also Museums:Configuration/Setup No. 10

Download Vers. 2.11.0
gunzip | tar xvf
Directory copied to /[local path]/http_files/admin/phpMyAdmin
Rights changed, *.conf edited for apache2
config.sample.inc.php copied to config.inc.php
Configuration via Web http://testwiki.[Domain].de/wiki/pma/scripts/setup.php
Php-Modules php5-mcrypt and php5-mbstring installed additionally