{"id":1549,"date":"2014-04-30T12:49:20","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T12:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/hosting-faqs\/?p=1549"},"modified":"2024-04-24T08:44:59","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T07:44:59","slug":"install-mediawiki-hosting-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/hosting-faqs\/install-mediawiki-hosting-account\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Install MediaWiki From Softaculous?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MediaWiki is a free server-based software or a content management system in the wiki software style that is used to build your own web presence. It is designed to run on a large cluster of servers for a website that gets millions of hits per day. MediaWiki is a powerful, scalable software and a feature-rich wiki implementation that uses PHP to process and display data stored in a database, such as MySQL.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Now to install MediaWiki from Softaculous follow these simple steps:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Login to the <strong>cPanel. <\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Navigate to <strong>the Software<\/strong> section and click on <strong>Softaculous Apps Installer. <\/strong><\/li>\n<li>On the left-hand side, you will see a search box in that search for <strong>MediaWiki<\/strong> and click on it.<\/li>\n<li>As you can see the Softaculous dashboard where you can click on <strong>Install Now<\/strong> to install <strong>MediaWiki.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>In the MediaWiki installation dashboard, you can edit the field named as <strong>choose installation URL<\/strong> to <strong>change the protocol, domain and directory or leave them default.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>In <strong>the Admin account<\/strong> section, you can enter <strong>Admin Username<\/strong> as per your choice or keep it as default. If you want to change the admin password then click on the <strong>Key icon<\/strong> and it will generate a strong alphanumeric password.<\/li>\n<li>Note this password as you will require it at the time of <strong>logging in to MediaWiki.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Go to <strong>Advanced options<\/strong> and if you wish to then you can enter the <strong>Database Name <\/strong>as per your choice<strong>, <\/strong>you can change the<strong> Table Prefix <\/strong>name as per your choice, this will give you a unique prefix to stop any naming conflicts or confusion to the database name.<\/li>\n<li>If you don&#8217;t want any notification for emails then check the option <strong>Disable Update Notifications Emails<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Do not upgrade must be selected if you have performed any customizations in the code OR theme. If they are auto-upgraded then there are high chances that it would overwrite them.<\/li>\n<li>By selecting <strong>Upgrade to any latest version available<\/strong> option, if a new version of MediaWiki is available then your current version gets updated to the latest version.<\/li>\n<li>In the <strong>Email installation details to<\/strong> field enter the <strong>email id<\/strong> where you wish to receive the installation details.<\/li>\n<li>Now, click on <strong>the Install<\/strong> button.<\/li>\n<li>It may take 3-4 minutes for the installation.<\/li>\n<li>Click on the <strong>Administrative URL<\/strong> and <strong>enter username and password<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Then click on <strong>Log in<\/strong> button and you will see the <strong>MediaWiki dashboard<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So in this way you can install MediaWiki from Softaculous.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also check: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.milesweb.in\/hosting-faqs\/check-exact-version-mediawiki\/\">How To Check The Exact Version Of MediaWiki?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MediaWiki is a free server-based software or a content management system in the wiki software style that is used to build your own web presence. 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