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* Obtaining nice URLs | * Obtaining nice URLs: A [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Eliminating_index.php_from_the_url guide to remove "index.php" from the URL ] is available online. However I don't find it very clear. The important steps are: | ||
** Unpack the MediaWiki in a directory NOT name "wiki", for example "wikistuff" will do. | |||
** In LocalSettings.php, set $wgScriptPath = "/wikistuff"; and $wgArticlePath = "/wiki/$1"; | |||
** Write an Alias rule for Apache: add the line | |||
Alias /wiki /filesystem/path/to/wikistuff/index.php | |||
in the Apache configuration file. Note: don't add the second line as mentionned in the guide! | |||
== Usage == | == Usage == | ||
* [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Advanced_editing Editing Guide, very helpful ] | * [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Advanced_editing Editing Guide, very helpful ] | ||
Revision as of 15:25, 16 October 2006
MediaWiki, the Wiki engine powering this site, is fully open-source and free. It seems to be robust, and reasonably fast. Configuring and installing it, however, is not so easy. This guide is a tutorial for MediaWiki administrators.
Prerequisites
- Apache
- PHP
- MySQL
Optional Software
- APC. This is a PHP accelerator.
- memcached. This a daemon caching SQL requests in memory. If you run two Wikis on the same machine, beware that it can cause serious problems. If there is a single memcached daemon running, and both Wikis use it, they will interfere and one Wiki will end up serving the contents of the other. A solution can be to run memcached on several machines, or maybe on the same machine but with different ports. However, this last option on Mac OS X this seems to be tricky.
Installation
Installation is easy, just download MediaWiki from Sourceforge and uncompress the tarball in a directory that Apache can serve. Then follow the instructions on the README to perform the initial configuration. It involves running a PHP script that will configure the Wiki for you.
Configuration
- Using memcached
- Obtaining nice URLs: A guide to remove "index.php" from the URL is available online. However I don't find it very clear. The important steps are:
- Unpack the MediaWiki in a directory NOT name "wiki", for example "wikistuff" will do.
- In LocalSettings.php, set $wgScriptPath = "/wikistuff"; and $wgArticlePath = "/wiki/$1";
- Write an Alias rule for Apache: add the line
Alias /wiki /filesystem/path/to/wikistuff/index.php
in the Apache configuration file. Note: don't add the second line as mentionned in the guide!