Set up mediawiki with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

To set up mediawiki with a SuSE Linux distribution, issue the commands

yast -i apache2-mod_php5
yast -i mysql
yast -i php5-mysql
/etc/init.d/apache2 start
/etc/init.d/mysql start

• Make sure you can see websites from /srv/www/htdocs. To do this:

cp /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/vhost.template /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/vhost.conf

• change DocumentRoot in /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/vhost.conf so it points to /srv/www/htdocs
• create a file index.htm in /srv/www/htdocs
• restart apache

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

• surf to http://localhost and verify you get index.htm served
• Download mediawiki from http://www.mediawiki.org and save it to /tmp. In this example we assume it is mediawiki 1.21.2.

Then extract the mediawiki installation package, in this case to apache's default directory:

cd /srv/www/htdocs
tar xvzf /tmp/mediawiki-1.21.2.tar.gz
mv mediawiki-1.21.2 mediawiki
chown -R wwwrun:www mediawiki

Then, point your browser to http://localhost/mediawiki. You see a web site like this:

Continue as instructed. Your root database password is blank ("").

See also

• Blog about setting up mediawiki with Ubuntu 20.04: http://try-linux.blogspot.com/2020/12/testing-adaptivethumb-my-mediawiki.html
• Blog about setting up mediawiki with Debian 10: http://try-linux.blogspot.com/2020/10/a-new-look-for-linuxintroorg.html