Mediawiki installation F7

[bitsofme]

Hello,

I am trying to get mediawiki working on fedora 7 but I can not.

If I try HTTP://localhost i get the Apache server default page so httpd is running

I created a phpinfo.php file that shows all the php configuration information so php is working

I created a mysql database as per the mediawiki web site.

When I enter HTTP://localhost/mediawiki something keeps adding index.php/index.php/index.php/index.php/index.php/index.php to the end of the url and I get a 404 not found error

Any Ideas?

I installed everything via yum and it is a fresh install not an upgrade.

With thanks
Andrew

[bitsofme]

Sorry looks like I created my own problem.
Instead of copying the wiki folder into the document root I tried to create a mediawiki.conf in /etc/httpd/conf.d/
Must have screwed up the file.

Andrew

[wt6g]

Mediawiki Install for FC7:

Install mediawiki with yum or yumex. From terminal using yum, yum install mediawiki

If you have Apache running and you have web services already running you probably have your document root set to /var/www/html which is the default. You will also need MYSQL running. Apache runs fine out of the box and shows its test screen if you browse to http://127.0.0.1/ MYSQL requires some setup:

#mysql -u root

Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 6
Server version: 5.0.37 Source distribution

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer.

mysql> SET PASSWORD FOR ''@'localhost'=PASSWORD('newpassword');
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.11 sec)

mysql> SET PASSWORD FOR ''@'jackson.umina.lan'=PASSWORD('newpassword'); [substitute your localhost.localdomain DO NOT just type localhost.localdomain]
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

Now you have Apache and MYSQL running.

mediawicki installs into /var/www so if you run
ls /var/www you should see a directory wicki
Do the following:
cd html [remember /var/www/html is the default document root for Apache]
ln -s ../wicki [this makes a symbolic link to /var/www/wicki from the document root so Apache can get to it.
now you can browse to http://127.0.0.1/wiki/config/index.php

The script will evaluate your installation and tell you if it can install.

That should get you through the toughest part. As soon as I learn what a wiki is and how it works, I'll post more!

/Len

[bitsofme]

Thanks for the reply.

I got everything working I just got confused with the difference between Fedora Core 6 and Fedora 7.

everythis is working well.

Thanks.

[darkprok]

I've also found out that you need to symlink the skins folder from the rpm into your webroot.
e.g. if you copied /var/www/wiki to /var/www/html/mywiki
then /var/www/html/mywiki is your wiki's webroot and you need to
cd /var/www/html/mywiki
ln -s /usr/share/mediawiki/skins