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

Download mediawiki from http://www.mediawiki.org and extract it to /srv/www/htdocs.

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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