Manual talk:Installation

Troubleshooting
If you cannot use the install script for some reason, follow these steps

Running in a subdomain
I found that installation itself was fine, but due to the way redirects work, I haven't been able to get the wiki to be addressable from both the subdomain and the subdirectory of my site.


 * http://wiki.mydomain.com    needs $wgScriptPath= "";
 * http://www.mydomain.com/wiki needs $wgScriptPath= "/wiki";

So the two aren't compatible. If I choose the latter configuration, I get page not found from the subdomain. If I choose the former, I get bad wiki links in the subdirectory.

Questions about installation (apache and domains for languages at webhost)
Two questions about installation, and thanks very much to anyone who can help! I want to upload mediawiki on a domain provided by a web host, which will be paid for. But I am less than an amateur about installing things like MediaWiki, and could use really some help.


 * 1) It says on the Installation page that you first need MYSQL, and PHP, and Apache. The web hosts I am considering all say they have MYSQL and PHP, but none of them mention Apache. Once I have the domain thru my web host, can I upload Apache myself? How?
 * 2) I want to start with more than one language domain, like in Wikipedia. To do that, when I purchase space from my webhost, must I purchase a license for more than one domain? Or are the language domains really subdomains?
 * 3) Is there some sort of easy step-by-step guide for "regular" people like me who purchase space on a web server, and have never set up a website before?

Thanks!

Minimum system requirements

 * Question from 129.42.208.182 moved from Help page:

How much RAM does PHP require on a unix webhost ?

Installation goes nowhere
I successfully went throught all steps of the installation process. In the end the install tutorial even said " installation succesfull, now visit your wiki!" But when I do visit the wiki nothing happens. I mean, really nothing, the page loads, stop and it seems I am still in the same page I was before. I tested in a pc (Firefox & ie) and a mac (safari & mozilla). Only safari did something different that was to give me the following error message:

Safari can't open the page. Safari can't open the page: "http://www.wanderingabout.com/kiwi/index.php/Main_Page" because it could not load any data from this location.

I am completely lost, any tip? If it helps, the only warning output was about my "register globals" being activated which seemed a minor security issue, and the information that the problem persisted even afetr I changed folder permissions (chmod) back o normal.. --Avsa 20:05, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

After Installation Missing images
I went through the installation process without problems. Uploaded the latest cur file and the Wikimedia Commons images used on the English Wikipedia. Everything works except that the images don't display. I know there is something simple I've missed and would appreciate any hints. Thanks

Moving an installation
How does one go about moving an installation of MediaWiki to a new location on a server? Can I assume that I can move the entire directory and that I'll then need to make changes to my database? If so, what are the changes necessary?

In my specific case, I am running a wiki at http://www.blisteredavalon.com/wiki/index.php, which can currently be accessed through the redirect domain http://pcpedia.blisteredavalon.com. I have decided I want to change http://pcpedia.blisteredavalon.com to a fully hosted subdomain and run the wiki from there, instead (now that I know how to add a fully hosted subdomain to my site).

Galatea 17:46, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)