Installing MediaWiki on 1&1
Posted by Johan Cyprich on 17 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: Applications, Tech Tips
I recently tried to install MediaWiki on my account with 1&1 I couldn’t get past the second installation page. The software couldn’t find /config/index.php even though the file was in that subfolder. After some experimentation, I came up with a solution to install MediaWiki.
- Copy the MediaWiki installation files to your web site address folder.
- Rename the config folder to configuration.
- Create a folder called config and give it full read/write permissions.
- Create an .htaccess file in the root of your web site. Open the file and add the following line to it:
AddType x-mapp-php5 .php
- Open the web site address in your web browser and click set up wiki.
- You’ll get an error message titled “Multiple Choices”. The installer can’t find /config/index.php. Go to the address bar in your web browser and change the config word to configuration. Open the page the address bar is pointing to. The URL should look something like this:
http://www.yourwiki.com/configuration/index.php
- Fill out all of the required fields to install mediaWiki.
- After installation is complete, move the /config/LocalSettings.php file to the root folder and your wiki is ready to go.
- Remove all write privileges to the config folder that you created earlier.
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on 11 Sep 2007 at 9:50 am 1.Daniel said …
Hey I used to have a 1&1 account and I was thinking about getting it again so I could host a wiki but I was wondering if you were able to get the Math (and images) processing stuff working.
I have had a lot of issues trying to do it on my Mac for local testing and I also don’t want to pay for the hosting and then find out the needed unix packages aren’t available.
Cheers,
Daniel
on 11 Sep 2007 at 1:00 pm 2.Johan Cyprich said …
Is this a library in MediaWiki that your having problems with?
on 26 Sep 2007 at 5:45 am 3.linux-blog » Blog Archive » Installation von MediaWiki beim Provider 1und1 said …
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on 12 Oct 2007 at 7:26 am 4.Vox said …
Thanks for this tip, that was very very usefull to install Wikimedia on my 1&1 server !
That must be included by default in Mediawiki script !!!
on 12 Oct 2007 at 11:11 am 5.Johan Cyprich said …
It should be included. There isn’t much help with installation problems in the MediaWiki documentation.
on 23 Feb 2008 at 12:29 am 6.Goyal said …
Hi,
I was able to setup Mediawiki on 1and1. However, do you know how to configure email support for the Wiki on the same installation?
Regards,
Amit
on 02 Mar 2008 at 2:39 pm 7.James Reyes said …
One thing I would add is that since you are changing the name of the config directory, you will need to edit the /config/index.php file on line 756 to change the chdir function to look at the renamed directory:
$wgCommandLineMode = true;
$wgUseDatabaseMessages = false; /* FIXME: For database failure */
require_once( “$IP/includes/Setup.php” );
chdir( “config” );