Manual talk:Installing MediaWiki on Ubuntu 10.04

I just want to say that this is the worst instruction manual for installing something EVVVAARRRR!!!

Ive wanted to get my Mediawiki website up and running months ago and i just cant do it. The instructions are the biggest load of bull. AN installation should quick simple and easy. Mediawiki have evidently made it their mission to make it as difficult as possible for others to start their own mediawiki website. They are clearly afriad of the competition

The Applications >> Ubuntu Software Centre (search) mediawiki didn't work for me on a new install (10.4, amd64)

I installed the Mediawiki package via System >> Administration >> Synaptic Package Manager >> (search) mediawiki >> Mark for installation >> Apply

During installation of the packages MySQL asks for you to create a password for the 'root' user (you will need this later so don't forget it!)

System >> Administration >> Services doesn't exist on this version of Ubuntu so I used the command line option to restart Apache.

After setting up mediawiki you get a message asking you to Move /var/lib/mediawiki/config/LocalSettings.php to /etc/mediawiki

If you want to do this using the GUI you need to open a terminal and type: gksudo nautlius

or via the command line:

sudo cp /var/lib/mediawiki/config/LocalSettings.php /etc/mediawiki

Everything else worked exactly as described in the manual.

Short URL's
On (K)ubuntu 10.04 short URL's refused to work util the following option was added to /etc/mediawiki/apache.conf: AcceptPathInfo On