MediaWiki
MWahl | December 5, 2009 | 1:22 pmI decided to look into creating a simple Wiki page as a sort of Intranet page. I downloaded and install MediaWiki from http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki. The install is pretty simple provided that you have PHP and MYSQL installed on either a Windows Web Server IIS 6 or 7 or an Apache Web server.
For my purposes I chose to install this on both a Windows Server 2003 IIS 6 and 2008 IIS 7.
1. You will need to create a new mysql database for mediawiki.
2. Next extact the downloaded mediawiki content to either a new website directory or an existing site directory you can point your browser to http://domainname/wiki and run through the setup.
3. There are a couple entries I would add or modify to the localsettings.php
4. Also make sure you have the proper entensions turned on in your php.ini file and that the extension directory is correct.
; Directory in which the loadable extensions (modules) reside.
extension_dir = “C:\PHP\ext”
extension=php_ldap.dll
extension=php_mysql.dll
To verify your php.ini file and extensions are being read correctly create a file under http://domainname/wiki called phpinfo.php, open the file in notepad or your favorite text editor and copy this into the file
<?php
// Show all information, defaults to INFO_ALL
phpinfo();
// Show just the module information.
// phpinfo(8) yields identical results.
phpinfo(INFO_MODULES);
?>
Then visit http://domainname/wiki/phpinfo.php
####Copy Below####
<?php
# This file was automatically generated by the MediaWiki installer.
# If you make manual changes, please keep track in case you need to
# recreate them later.
#
# See includes/DefaultSettings.php for all configurable settings
# and their default values, but don't forget to make changes in _this_
# file, not there.
#
# Further documentation for configuration settings may be found at:
# http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Configuration_settings
# If you customize your file layout, set $IP to the directory that contains
# the other MediaWiki files. It will be used as a base to locate files.
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if( defined( 'MW_INSTALL_PATH' ) ) {
$IP = MW_INSTALL_PATH;
} else {
$IP = dirname( __FILE__ );
}
$path = array( $IP, "$IP/includes", "$IP/languages" );
set_include_path( implode( PATH_SEPARATOR, $path ) . PATH_SEPARATOR . get_include_path() );
require_once( "$IP/includes/DefaultSettings.php" );
# If PHP's memory limit is very low, some operations may fail.
# ini_set( 'memory_limit', '20M' );
if ( $wgCommandLineMode ) {
if ( isset( $_SERVER ) && array_key_exists( 'REQUEST_METHOD', $_SERVER ) ) {
die( "This script must be run from the command line\n" );
}
}
## Uncomment this to disable output compression
# $wgDisableOutputCompression = true;
#Site name here
$wgSitename = "SiteNamegoeshere";
#This is where you can change the default image at the top left of the screen.
$wgLogo = "skins/common/images/wiki.png";
## The URL base path to the directory containing the wiki;
## defaults for all runtime URL paths are based off of this.
## For more information on customizing the URLs please see:
## http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL
$wgScriptPath = "";
$wgScriptExtension = ".php";
## UPO means: this is also a user preference option
$wgEnableEmail = true;
$wgEnableUserEmail = true; # UPO
$wgEmergencyContact = "root@localhost";
$wgPasswordSender = "root@localhost";
$wgEnotifUserTalk = true; # UPO
$wgEnotifWatchlist = true; # UPO
$wgEmailAuthentication = true;
## Database settings
$wgDBtype = "mysql";
$wgDBserver = "localhost";
$wgDBname = "dbnamegoeshere";
$wgDBuser = "dbusrnamegoeshere";
$wgDBpassword = "passwordgoeshere";
# MySQL specific settings
$wgDBprefix = "";
# MySQL table options to use during installation or update
$wgDBTableOptions = "ENGINE=InnoDB, DEFAULT CHARSET=binary";
# Experimental charset support for MySQL 4.1/5.0.
$wgDBmysql5 = true;
## Shared memory settings
$wgMainCacheType = CACHE_NONE;
$wgMemCachedServers = array();
## To enable image uploads, make sure the 'images' directory
## is writable, then set this to true:
$wgEnableUploads = true;
# $wgUseImageMagick = true;
# $wgImageMagickConvertCommand = "/usr/bin/convert";
## If you use ImageMagick (or any other shell command) on a
## Linux server, this will need to be set to the name of an
## available UTF-8 locale
# $wgShellLocale = "en_US.UTF-8";
## If you want to use image uploads under safe mode,
## create the directories images/archive, images/thumb and
## images/temp, and make them all writable. Then uncomment
## this, if it's not already uncommented:
# $wgHashedUploadDirectory = false;
## If you have the appropriate support software installed
## you can enable inline LaTeX equations:
$wgUseTeX = false;
$wgLocalInterwiki = strtolower( $wgSitename );
$wgLanguageCode = "en";
## Default skin: you can change the default skin. Use the internal symbolic
## names, ie 'standard', 'nostalgia', 'cologneblue', 'monobook':
$wgDefaultSkin = 'monobook';
## For attaching licensing metadata to pages, and displaying an
## appropriate copyright notice / icon. GNU Free Documentation
## License and Creative Commons licenses are supported so far.
# $wgEnableCreativeCommonsRdf = true;
$wgRightsPage = ""; # Set to the title of a wiki page that describes your license/copyright
$wgRightsUrl = "";
$wgRightsText = "";
$wgRightsIcon = "";
# $wgRightsCode = ""; # Not yet used
$wgDiff3 = "";
# When you make changes to this configuration file, this will make
# sure that cached pages are cleared.
$wgCacheEpoch = max( $wgCacheEpoch, gmdate( 'YmdHis', @filemtime( __FILE__ ) ) );
#To use active directory authentication instead or local
# you need to download http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LDAP_Authentication and copy LdapAuthentication.php to the extension directory under http://domainname/wiki
require_once( "$IP/extensions/LdapAuthentication.php" );
$wgAuth = new LdapAuthenticationPlugin();
$wgLDAPDomainNames = array(
"DomainNamegoesherei.e.thenetworkadministrator.net("
);
$wgLDAPServerNames = array(
"DomainNamegoesherei.e.thenetworkadministrator.net"=>"webservernamegoeshere.thenetworkadministrator.net"
);
$wgLDAPUseLocal = true;
$wgLDAPEncryptionType = array(
"DomainNamegoesherei.e.thenetworkadministrator.net"=>"clear"
);
$wgLDAPSearchStrings = array(
"DomainNamegoesherei.e.thenetworkadministrator.net"=>"DomainNamegoesherei.e.thenetworkadministrator.net\\USER-NAME",
);
$wgLDAPSearchAttributes = array(
"DomainNamegoesherei.e.thenetworkadministrator.net"=>"sAMAccountName",
);
$wgLDAPBaseDNs = array(
"DomainNamegoesherei.e.thenetworkadministrator.net"=>"dc=DomainNamegoesherei.e.thenetworkadministrator,dc=depending on .net or .com in my case its net",
);

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