Installation

Prerequisites:

Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS and Debian Stretch include PHP 7.0, and renamed many packages from "php5" to plain "php". Some PHP modules are now in separate packages (xml, mbstring):

sudo apt-get install apache2 mysql-server php php-mysql libapache2-mod-php php-xml php-mbstring

Ubuntu Trusty, Debian Jessie and Raspbian (Jessie) include PHP 5, and use "php5" in most (but not all) packages:

sudo apt-get install apache2 mysql-server php5 php5-mysql libapache2-mod-php5

Get MediaWiki

cd Downloads
wget https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.28/mediawiki-1.28.2.tar.gz

Extract in your Web directory

tar -xvzf /pathtofile/mediawiki-*.tar.gz
sudo mkdir /var/www/html/mediawiki
sudo mv mediawiki-*/* /var/www/html/mediawiki

Configure MySQL

mysqladmin -u root password "enter the new password here"

Optional: Configure PHP

Change Maximum upload file size in File Uploads section to

sudo nano /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini
upload_max_filesize = 20M

Memory limit

memory_limit = 128M

Logo

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Favicon

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Restoring From Backup

Restore Images

php mediawiki/maintenance/importImages.php --search-recursively images/

Rebuild all

php mediawiki/maintenance/php5 rebuildall.php

References

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