Help:Administrator's Guide
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This is PART 2 : Administrator's Guide - Installation, Configuration, Administration, Care & Feeding of the MediaWiki Documentation.
In this section, you will learn how to install, configure, administer, and troubleshoot the MediaWiki software.
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[edit] Do you need MediaWiki?
Before installing the MediaWiki software package, ask yourself a few questions; this will determine which of the following help chapters are relevant for your needs.
- What is your experience with the operating system under which MediaWiki will be installed?
- Are you familiar with the technologies required to set it up? (see System Requirements)
- If you are familiar with both, you may go directly to the chapter on Installation, and then onwards to the Configuration information.
- For what purpose do you need the MediaWiki software?
- Creating a new Wikipedia (-> full instructions, importing),
- Creating a mirror for an existing Wikipedia (-> database dump),
- Creating another WikiMedia project (-> full instructions),
- Creating a local Wikipedia site for personal use (-> database dump, mirroring)
[edit] Installation
Detailed information can be found here: Installation.
[edit] Configuration
Edit LocalSettings.php, mediawiki's system options.
To learn variables and about enabling the Apache httpd's Rewrite Engine, see Configuration
Configuration chapters (technically worded informative papers)
- Preventing access
- Configuration - interwiki/external wiki linking, adminsettings.php, language.php and localsettings.php features to edit
- Configuration settings index - full list of localsettings.php variables
- Apache config
- Robots.txt - how to stop search engines from indexing the internals of your wiki
- Short URL - Rewrite rules to make URLs shorter
- PHP config
- MySQL config
[edit] Administration
See Administration
Customization - learn how to use mediawiki and change settings here
- Layout customization - change page layout, logo, quickbar/navigation bar, favicon, editable left menu, and google wiki search
- Help:System message How to customize system messages such as link text, button text, etc. within MediaWiki without modifying any .php files.
- Set Global Timezone
- Localisation - localization and customization for link texts and messages like 'fromwikipedia'
- Interwiki links
- Custom skins
- Custom namespaces
- Configuration tips and tricks
- Extensions
[edit] Security
See Security.