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Appliance Details

Package: mediawiki
Version: 1.11.2-2
Certified: no
Section: www
Location: ftp://pve.proxmox.com/appliances/www/debian-4.0-mediawiki_1.11.2-2_i386.tar.gz
Maintainer: Proxmox Support Team
OS: debian-4.0

Introduction

MediaWiki is a wiki engine (a program for creating a collaboratively edited website). It is designed to handle heavy websites containing library-like document collections, and supports user uploads of images/sounds, multilingual content, TOC autogeneration, ISBN links, etc. MediaWiki is a free software wiki package originally written for Wikipedia.

Virtual Appliances can be downloaded directly via the Central Web-based Management.

For more details see: MediaWiki

Recommended settings for Proxmox VE

  • Memory (MB): 512
  • Swap (MB): 512
  • Hard disk (GB): 8

Appliance specific settings

  • Mysql root password: admin

Please change this for security reason:

  • via phpmyadmin: http://youripaddress/phpmyadmin
  • via command line after the first boot:
mysqladmin -u root -p password yournewpasswordhere

MediaWiki settings

  • Main software packages: Debian Etch, MediaWiki 1.11.2, MySQL5, Postfix, Apache2, PHP5

First steps

Start the VM and open a VNC console and install the latest security updates.

apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade

Now connect to the MediaWiki web installer http://youripaddress and follow the instructions.

Set time zone

Time zone is not set, just run:

tzconfig

Documentation and HowTo´s about MediaWiki

MediaWiki

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