MediaWiki 1.6.12 Installation

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  • PHP 4.4.8 installed
  • Warning: PHP's register_globals option is enabled. Disable it if you can.
    MediaWiki will work, but your server is more exposed to PHP-based security vulnerabilities.
  • PHP server API is cgi-fcgi; using ugly URLs (index.php?title=Page_Title)
  • Have XML / Latin1-UTF-8 conversion support.
  • PHP is configured with no memory_limit.
  • Have zlib support; enabling output compression.
  • Neither Turck MMCache nor eAccelerator are installed, can't use object caching functions
  • Found GNU diff3: /usr/bin/diff3.
  • Found ImageMagick: /usr/bin/convert; image thumbnailing will be enabled if you enable uploads.
  • Found GD graphics library built-in.
  • Installation directory: /home/www/vicandbob.madpage.com
  • Script URI path:
  • Environment checked. You can install MediaWiki.

Site config

Must not be blank or "MediaWiki"

Preferably a short word without punctuation, i.e. "Wikipedia".
Will appear as the namespace name for "meta" pages, and throughout the interface.

Displayed to users in some error messages, used as the return address for password reminders, and used as the default sender address of e-mail notifications.

Select the language for your wiki's interface. Some localizations aren't fully complete. Unicode (UTF-8) used for all localizations.

  • choose

A notice, icon, and machine-readable copyright metadata will be displayed for the license you pick.

Must not be blank

An admin can lock/delete pages, block users from editing, and other maintenance tasks.
A new account will be added only when creating a new wiki database.

Using a shared memory system such as Turck MMCache, eAccelerator, or Memcached will speed up MediaWiki significantly. Memcached is the best solution but needs to be installed. Specify the server addresses and ports in a comma-separted list. Only use Turck shared memory if the wiki will be running on a single Apache server.

E-mail, e-mail notification and authentication setup

Use this to disable all e-mail functions (send a password reminder, user-to-user e-mail and e-mail notification), if sending e-mails on your server doesn't work.

Use this to disable only the user-to-user e-mail function (EmailUser).

E-mail notification sends a notification e-mail to a user, when the user_talk page is changed and/or when watch-listed pages are changed, depending on the above settings. When testing this feature, be reminded, that obviously an e-mail address must be present in your preferences and that your own changes never trigger notifications to be sent to yourself.

Users get corresponding options to select or deselect in their users' preferences. The user options are not shown on the preference page, if e-mail notification is disabled.

There are additional options for fine tuning in /includes/DefaultSettings.php .

E-mail address authentication uses a scheme to authenticate e-mail addresses of the users. The user who initially enters or changes his/her stored e-mail address gets a link with a token mailed to that address. The stored e-mail address is authenticated at the moment the user comes back to the wiki via the link.

The e-mail address stays authenticated as long as the user does not change it; the time of authentication is indicated on the user preference page.

If the option is enabled, only authenticated e-mail addresses can receive EmailUser mails and/or e-mail notification mails.

Database config

If your database server isn't on your web server, enter the name or IP address here. MySQL only.

If using Oracle, set this to your connection identifier.
Must not be blank

If you only have a single user account and database available, enter those here. If you have database root access (see below) you can specify new accounts/databases to be created.

This account will not be created if it pre-exists. If this is the case, ensure that it has SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE permissions on the MediaWiki database.

If you need to share one database between multiple wikis, or MediaWiki and another web application, you may choose to add a prefix to all the table names to avoid conflicts.

Avoid exotic characters; something like mw_ is good.

Select one:

EXPERIMENTAL: You can enable explicit Unicode charset support for MySQL 4.1 and 5.0 servers. This is not well tested and may cause things to break. If upgrading an older installation, leave in backwards-compatible mode.

If the database user specified above does not exist, or does not have access to create the database (if needed) or tables within it, please provide details of a superuser account, such as root, which does. Leave the password set to - if this is not needed.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. or read it online

MediaWiki is Copyright © 2001-2006 by Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, Gabriel Wicke and others.