How To Install MediaWiki on user directory

MediaWiki is a free software open source wiki package written in PHP, originally for use on Wikipedia. It is now also used by several other projects of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation and by many other wikis, including this website, the home of MediaWiki.
http://www.mediawiki.org/

Now I am going to install MediaWiki on my personal server. To install MediaWiki you will need a LAMP stack = Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. Possibly ssh connection.

Step 1

First head over to
http://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/

Find the latest version available and copy its address. Currently the newest version is 1.24. http://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki//1.24/mediawiki-1.24.1.tar.gz

Copy that address and then head over to your user public_html folder. Use commands wget to download and tar to untar the file:

$ wget http://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki//1.24/mediawiki-1.24.1.tar.gz
$ tar xvfz mediawiki-1.24.1.tar.gz

You may need to restart your apache

$ sudo service apache2 restart

Step 2

Create MySQL table and user.

$ mysql -u root -p
$ create database my_wiki;
$ grant index, create, select, insert, update, delete, alter, lock tables on my_wiki.* to 'wikiuser'@'localhost' identified by 'password';
$ flush privileges;

$ exit;

step 3

head over to your MediaWiki site www.yoursite.com/~username/mediawiki-1.24.1

Click install and insert all things asked. 

When your install is finished MediaWiki will automatically download LocalSettings.php file. Upload this file to the root of your MediaWiki installation.

Step 4 Enjoy your MediaWiki site

Step 5 Images / Uploads

To allow image uploads to your mediawiki site you need to edit LocalSettings.php file and give chmod 777 to images folder. 

$nano LocalSettings.php 

Set line $weEnableUploads = true;

$ chmod 777 images/