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By Abhishek Ghosh September 14, 2012 11:44 am Updated on September 14, 2012

Installing MediaWiki on Rackspace Cloud Sites

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Installing MediaWiki on Rackspace Cloud Sites is quite easy, simply follow our step by step guide for Installing MediaWiki on Rackspace Cloud Sites. You can install any other Wiki Software from our previously listed guide.

 

Installing MediaWiki on Rackspace Cloud Sites

 

In this guide for Installing MediaWiki on Rackspace Cloud Sites, we will install MediaWiki on a SubDomain because we want to use for our clients as a guide. You can install on a subfolder or main domain as per your need. The minimum softwares and other things you will need are :

 

  • Any SFTP Software like WinSCP
  • Rackspace Cloud Sites Account
  • A good text editor like gedit

 

Simply follow this method for creating a subdomain on Rackspace Cloud Sites:

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In your Rackspace Cloud Account Click the Add a New Site button and name it as you want :

 

Installing MediaWiki on Rackspace Cloud Sites

 

Just follow the wizard only make the database option to Unlimited Databases and Finish it. It will take seconds to get the subdomain ready. If you open the url of the subdomain on your browser, you will notice that the default Rackspace Webpage :

 

Rackspace Your website is ready

 

Open the /yoursubdomain.com/web/content 

directory on your SFTP software and delete the index.html file present there.  You need to download MediaWiki software from here :

 

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You can uncompress and upload or if you are used with PHP scripting, use a script like this to simply do the work easily :

 

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<?php
 
$url = "http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.19/<span style="color: #ff0000;">mediawiki-1.19.2</span>.tar.gz";
$file = "<span style="color: #ff0000;">mediawiki-1.19.2</span>.tar.gz";
$esc = escapeshellarg($url);
exec("wget " . $esc);
$shell = "tar -xzvf $file"; //tar
$shell = escapeshellcmd($shell);
exec($shell,$nu);
$del = "rm $file";
$del = escapeshellcmd($del);
exec($del,$nu);
print_r("done");
 
?&gt;

 

If you now point your browser to the subdomain’s URL, you should see the default webpage of MediaWiki :

 

Installing MediaWiki on RackspaceClick that “set up the wiki” link and simply continue to click “Continue” button untill you have reached the database setup page :

 

Installing MediaWiki on Rackspace Cloud Database

 

So we need a database. Go your Rackspace Cloud Sites account and create a database :

 

Rackspace Database

 

Follow the wizard to create a database. After the database is created, click the hyperlinked database url and you will get the details :

 

Rackspace Database Details

 

Read Why this is not localhost in case of  Rackspace Cloud Sites

 

So copy paste them in your MediaWiki’s database form and simply continue to keep everything in default and it should normally complete Installing MediaWiki on Rackspace Cloud Sites. As a last step, you will get a file named LocalSettings.php generated by MediaWiki, save it and upload it through SFTP where your MediaWiki’s index.php file is located.
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Comments

  1. AvatarDan says

    November 15, 2012 at 4:42 am

    Hi Abhishek, I found your guide after I had done the same install of Mediawiki (1.20.0) on Rackspace Cloudsites.
    I am having problems with uploading files, I get an error:

    Upload warning

    Could not acquire lock for “mwstore://local-backend/local-public/8/8f”.
    Could not acquire lock for “mwstore://local-backend/local-public/8/8f/image.png”.

    Have you found or fixed this issue?

  2. AbhishekAbhishek says

    November 15, 2012 at 9:03 am

    I will be installing MediaWiki within 2-3 days, I will make it a video screen cast guide. That will help you more.
    If somehow still does not work, report me. Probably there is issue with the full Linux path in your case.

  3. AvatarLeland says

    April 5, 2013 at 12:47 pm

    I just could not go away your website before suggesting that I actually loved the usual info a person provide for your visitors?

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