Manual:Install.php

Details
install.php file is a CLI-based maint-scripts>Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Maintenance scripts|maintenance script for the MediaWiki mwinstall>Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Installing MediaWiki|installation and configuration.

Usage
Default options are indicated in parentheses: php install.php [--conf|--confpath|--dbname|--dbpass|--dbpassfile|--dbpath|--dbport|--dbprefix|--dbschema|--dbserver|--dbtype|--dbuser|--env-checks|--globals|--help|--installdbpass|--installdbuser|--lang|--memory-limit|--pass|--passfile|--profiler|--quiet|--scriptpath|--server|--wiki] [name]

Generic maintenance parameters:

 * --help (-h) : Display this help message
 * --quiet (-q) : Whether to suppress non-error output
 * --conf : Location of LocalSettings.php, if not default
 * --wiki : For specifying the wiki ID
 * --globals : Output globals at the end of processing for debugging
 * --memory-limit : Set a specific memory limit for the script, "max" for no limit or "default" to avoid changing it
 * --server : The protocol and server name to use in URLs, e.g.  http://en.wikipedia.org . This is sometimes necessary because server name detection may fail in command line scripts.
 * --profiler : Profiler output format (usually "text")

Script dependent parameters
The password to use for this script. This value appears in  for . If --installdbuser and --installdbpass are given, this value will be used to create a new account
 * --dbuser : The DB user to use for this script. This value appears in  for . If   and <tvar|idbp> </> are given, this value will be used to create a new account
 * --dbpass :

Script specific parameters

 * --confpath : Path to write LocalSettings.php to (/var/www/)
 * --dbname : The database name (my_wiki)
 * --dbpassfile : An alternative way to provide dbpass option, as the contents of this file
 * --dbpath : The path for the SQLite DB ($IP/data)
 * --dbport : The database port; only for PostgreSQL (5432)
 * --dbprefix : Optional database table name prefix
 * --dbschema : The schema for the MediaWiki DB in PostgreSQL/Microsoft SQL Server (mediawiki)
 * --dbserver : The database host (localhost)
 * --dbtype : The type of database (mysql)
 * --env-checks : Run environment checks only, don't change anything
 * --installdbpass : The password for the DB user to install as
 * --installdbuser : The user to use for installing (root)
 * --lang : The language to use (en)
 * --pass : The password for the wiki administrator
 * --passfile : An alternative way to provide pass option, as the contents of this file
 * --scriptpath : The relative path of the wiki in the web server (/wiki)

Arguments

 * [name] : The name of the wiki (MediaWiki)
 * : The username of the wiki administrator

Examples
Set up wiki using a user with required permissions in database to create a new database for the wiki and a user to operate the wiki: