I'm having trouble with a fresh install using the 1.31 tarball. We are
using MySQL, and I created the database and user per the instructions
at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Installing_MediaWiki:
CREATE DATABASE wikidb;
CREATE USER 'wikiuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'XXXXX';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wikidb.* TO 'wikiuser'@'localhost' WITH GRANT
OPTION;
The next step is to run "php maintenance/install.php" but no
directions are provided. Running with information from "install.php
--help" is failing:
# php maintenance/install.php --dbname:wikidb --dbuser:wikiuser
--dbpass:XXXX root
Argument <admin> required!
What is the argument <admin>?
Thanks in advance
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# php maintenance/install.php --help
CLI-based MediaWiki installation and configuration.
Default options are indicated in parentheses.
Usage: php install.php [--conf|--confpath|--dbname|--dbpass|--dbpassfile|--dbpat
h|--dbport|--dbprefix|--dbschema|--dbserver|--dbtype|--dbuser|--env-checks|--glo
bals|--help|--installdbpass|--installdbuser|--lang|--memory-limit|--mwdebug|--pa
ss|--passfile|--profiler|--quiet|--scriptpath|--server|--wiki|--with-extensions]
[name]
Generic maintenance parameters:
--help (-h): Display this help message
--quiet (-q): Whether to supress non-error output
--conf: Location of LocalSettings.php, if not default
--wiki: For specifying the wiki ID
--globals: Output globals at the end of processing for debugging
--memory-limit: Set a specific memory limit for the script, "max"
for no limit or "default" to avoid changing it
--server: The protocol and server name to use in URLs, e.g.
http://en.wikipedia.org. This is sometimes necessary because server name
detection may fail in command line scripts.
--profiler: Profiler output format (usually "text")
--mwdebug: Enable built-in MediaWiki development settings
Script dependant parameters:
--dbuser: The DB user to use for this script
--dbpass: The password to use for this script
Script specific parameters:
--confpath: Path to write LocalSettings.php to (/var/www/html/wiki)
--dbname: The database name (my_wiki)
--dbpassfile: An alternative way to provide dbpass option, as the
contents of this file
--dbpath: The path for the SQLite DB ($IP/data)
--dbport: The database port; only for PostgreSQL (5432)
--dbprefix: Optional database table name prefix
--dbschema: The schema for the MediaWiki DB in PostgreSQL/Microsoft
SQL Server (mediawiki)
--dbserver: The database host (localhost)
--dbtype: The type of database (mysql)
--env-checks: Run environment checks only, don't change anything
--installdbpass: The password for the DB user to install as.
--installdbuser: The user to use for installing (root)
--lang: The language to use (en)
--pass: The password for the wiki administrator.
--passfile: An alternative way to provide pass option, as the
contents of this file
--scriptpath: The relative path of the wiki in the web server
(/wiki)
--with-extensions: Detect and include extensions
Arguments:
[name]: The name of the wiki (MediaWiki)
<admin>: The username of the wiki administrator.