MediaWiki training course Installing and configuring a wiki
From Wiki Valley - MediaWiki hosting and consulting
Goals of the training
- Setting up a wiki with MediaWiki
- Configuring the wiki with LocalSettings.php
- Installing extensions
- Updating MediaWiki software and its extensions
Setting up a wiki
- What do you need on your server
- Most important parameters of LocalSettings.php
- Displaying a logo and a favicon
- Name of the wiki (very important for SEO)
- Connecting to a database
- The most interesting extensions
- Installing a new extension
- Where are the files on the server?
- Displaying another skin
- Creating a new user group
- Activating subpages
Maintenance of MediaWiki
- Most useful maintenance scripts
- Updating MediaWiki software and its extensions
- classical way
- composer way
- git way
Hosting a wiki powered by MediaWiki
- Free wikis hoster
- Paid hosters: Wiki Valley, private wikis platform (fr)
Connecting to a remote server (optional)
- Connection with
- private/public key
- fixed IP
- PuTTy
- FileZilla
Pre-requisites
You must know how to
- copy and paste files on a server
- create a new database and a user with rights
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Lire cette page en français : Cours MediaWiki : Créer et gérer son wiki, installation et configuration sur serveur