Manual:Running MediaWiki on GNU/Linux

<-MediaWiki User's Guide: Running MediaWiki

Assumes you have a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) already set up on your machine. See http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Installing.html and http://www.php.net/manual/en/install.unix.php for more information on how to do this.

Configuration

 * 1) Download WikiMedia
 * 2) tar zxvf wikimedia-x.x.x.tar.gz
 * 3) Move the directory into your public_html directory: mv wikimedia-x.x.x public_html/wiki
 * 4) cd public_html/wiki
 * 5) chmod a+x config
 * 6) Visit your new wiki install's site and follow the instructions.

Running a PHP Accelerator?
In some cases, when running 1.2.4, one may encounter problems during the install. If this happens, try disabling phpa by placing php_value phpa Off in .htaccess in the root directory of your install.