Set up mediawiki on SQLite with Ubuntu Linux

To set up mediawiki on SQLite with Ubuntu Linux issue the commands

apt-get install php5-sqlite
/etc/init.d/apache2 start

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

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

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

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