MediaWiki installation Information

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These installation instructions are written for the following versions of MacPorts software:

• Apache 2.2.* - See: howto/Apache2 for instructions on installation of Apache2
• MySQL 5.6.* - See: howto/MySQL for instructions on installation of MySQL
• PHP 5.6.* - See: howto/PHP for instructions on installation of PHP

Note that if you intend to install MediaWiki also, the instructions found at ​https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Running_MediaWiki_on_Mac_OS_X also refer to MAMP which is a commercial product (​http://www.mamp.info/en/). They also refer to " ​MAMPstack + MediaWiki, which is a BItnami installer for Mediawiki.

• MediaWiki 1.24.* - see: howto/MediaWiki for instructions on installation of MediaWiki

MediaWiki reference information

• a general description of the OSX installation of MediaWiki - ​https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Running_MediaWiki_on_Mac_OS_X

• the primary "manual" installation guide - ​https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Installation_guide

• Information on dowloading - ​https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download

• Subscribe to the MediaWiki support lists - ​https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce

Step 1: Install MediaWiki

$ sudo port install MediaWiki

MediaWiki will also install:

• port:php56-intl
• port:php56-dba
• port:php56-mbstring
• port:ImageMagick

MySQL installation

create database wikidb; grant index, create, select, insert, update, delete, alter, lock tables on wikidb.* to 'wikiuser'@'localhost' identified by 'password';

If your database is not running on the same server as your web server, you need to give the appropriate web server hostname -- mediawiki.example.com in my example -- as follows:

grant index, create, select, insert, update, delete, alter, lock tables on wikidb.* to 'wikiuser'@'mediawiki.example.com' identified by 'password';

figure this out

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