On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 06:32:29PM -0500, James Reed wrote:
I would like to install MediaWiki on a remote server to which I do not have root access. PHP 4.2.3 and MySQL 3.23.49 are available. Has anyone here done this before, or know of someone who has? If so, I would like to contact him/her.
Just FYI, those are _really old_ versions of PHP and MySQL. They will probably work, but if you have any strange problems please let us know about any error messages you get.
Also, I would like to be able to install MediaWiki by unpacking the files into the directory of choice, run an installation script in my browser into which I input my host, directory, database, and software version information, run a configuration script to setup admin accounts, display preferences, and the like, and start using the product. Is there any possibility of this being implemented in the near future?
This is already implemented in version 1.2. Download MediaWiki 1.2.2: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wikipedia/mediawiki-1.2.2.tar.gz?download
The file INSTALL contains installation instructions.
If you don't have root access to the database, you should first make sure that you have an empty database and permission to create and alter tables in it. If you have existing tables in this database, make sure none of the names conflict with MediaWiki's tables (check the table definitions in maintenance/tables.sql)
Give your existing MySQL username and password to the config script, and just leave the root password blank.
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