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.
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
Is this a library in MediaWiki that your having problems with?
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 !!!
It should be included. There isn’t much help with installation problems in the MediaWiki documentation.
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
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” );