Help:Administrator's Guide

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This is PART 2 : Administrator's Guide - Installation, Configuration, Administration, Care & Feeding of the MediaWiki Documentation.

In this section, you will learn how to install, configure, administer, and troubleshoot the MediaWiki software.

Contents 1 Do you need MediaWiki? 2 Installation 3 Configuration 4 Administration 5 Security

Do you need MediaWiki?

What is MediaWiki?

Before installing the MediaWiki software package, ask yourself a few questions; this will determine which of the following help chapters are relevant for your needs.

• What is your experience with the operating system, which media wiki will be installed under? and the technologies required to set it up? (see System Requirements)
  • If you are familiar with both, you may go directly to the chapter on Installation, and then onwards to the Configuration information.

• For what purpose do you need the MediaWiki software?
  • Creating a new Wikipedia (-> full instructions, importing),
  • Creating a mirror for an existing Wikipedia (-> database dump),
  • Creating another WikiMedia project (-> full instructions),
  • Creating a local Wikipedia site for personal or (-> database dump, mirroring)

Installation

Detailed information can be found here: Installation

Configuration

Configure localsettings.php, mediawiki's system options.

To learn variables and about enabling the Apache httpd's Rewrite Engine, see Configuration

Configuration chapters (technically worded informative papers)

1. Access Restrictions
2. Configuration localsettings.php and Apache httpd's Rewrite Engine
3. Help:Configuration interwiki/external wiki linking, adminsettings.php, language.php and localsettings.php features to edit
4. Help:Configuration settings index full list of localsettings.php variables
5. Apache config
6. Robots.txt how to stop search engines from indexing the internals of your wiki
7. Eliminating index.php from the url not supported by mediawiki. may affect future versions
8. Using a very short URL
9. PHP config
10. MySQL config

Administration

See Administration

Customization learn how to use mediawiki and change settings here

1. Customization change page layout, logo, quickbar/navigation bar, favicon, editable left menu, and google wiki search
2. Timezone adjustments
3. MediaWiki localization -- localization and customization for link texts and messages like 'fromwikipedia'
4. Interwiki links
5. Custom skins
6. Custom namespaces
7. Configuration tips and tricks
8. MediaWiki Hacks and Extensions

Security

See Security