Install Media Wiki on macOS

Prerequisites

• For being able to the sudo command you need to macOS Administrator (System preferences->Accounts).
• When you invoke it you have are ask for your Password and not for an administrator password. (There is no Administrator Password)

• Luckily your macOS comes with 2 of the three prerequisites already installed:
• * Apache Web-server
• * and PHP

• MySQL need to be installed separately

Activation of Apache and PHP

• Now we need to Edit Apache Configuration
• Open an Terminal and edit/etc/apache2/httpd.conf

  sudo nano  /etc/apache2/httpd.conf

• Load PHP remove the #
• * locate and uncomment the load instruction for php5: Control-W: php5

 #LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so

 LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so

• Save the file: Control-X

• Write an test index.html document

 sudo nano  /Library/WebServer/Documents/index.html
 Write "It works" into the file and save it (Control-X). 

 sudo apachectl restart

MySQL Download and Install

• Download from: https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/

 macOS 10.12 (x86, 64-bit), DMG Archive

 mysql-5.7.20-macos10.12-x86_64.dmg

• In the System Preference allow temporary all application to be installed.

• Click the DMG file and follow instruction.

• Set auto start

Create a Database

• Open a Terminal

 mysql -u root -p

• At the mysql prompt (mysql>) create that database

  create database my_know_how;
 Query OK, 1 row affected (0.06 sec)

• Create database, user and access rights for media wiki

  create user mykh_user@localhost identified by 'meey1Ahf';
  Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec)

  grant all privileges on my_know_how.* to mykh_user@localhost;
  Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec)

Verify

• On the sql prompt type

 show grants for mykh_user@localhost;

+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Grants for mykh_user@localhost                                                                                   |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| GRANT USAGE ON *.* TO 'mykh_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY PASSWORD '*BEB52EA48AA643D8580D58E945B3FF28D9952F2A' |
| GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON `my_know_how`.* TO 'mykh_user'@'localhost'                                               |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
2 rows in set (0.00 sec)

• type quit to leave mysql

 mysql> quit
 Bye 

• Test connect to mysql with the new user:
• On the Terminal type teh following and enter the password we set before:

 mysql -u mykh_user -p
 Enter password: meey1Ahf
 Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
 Your MySQL connection id is 2971
 mysql> quit
 Bye

• Type quit

Download Media wiki software and install

Download

• Down load the {{Red|latest}} Mediawiki tar.gz from: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki to your Download folder.

Unpack in the Webspace

• Open a Terminal change to you webspace and unpack the media wiki

 cd /Library/WebServer/Documents
 sudo tar xvzf ~/Downloads/mediawiki-1.30.0.tar.gz 
 ...Your Password
 sudo ln -s  mediawiki-1.30.0 my-know-how

Install Mediawiki

• Open a browser and navigate to

  http://localhost/my-know-how/

• Click on 'Please set up' and follow the instructions:

• Download the LocalSettings.php to your Download directory.
• Open a Terminal and copy the file

 sudo cp ~/Downloads/LocalSettings.php /Library/WebServer/Documents/my-know-how
 Password:

• Click on the link in the red Box and You are set

Post Configuration

Set an Icon

• Download and small image with the size 135¿×¿135 Pixel (here tux.png) to your Download directory.
• Open a Terminal and copy the file

 sudo cp ~/Downloads/tux.png /Library/WebServer/Documents/my-know-how/resources/assets/
 Password:

• To configure the logo edit LocalSettings.php

 sudo nano /Library/WebServer/Documents/my-know-how/LocalSettings.php

• Search with Control W wgLogo and edit the line

  $wgLogo = "$wgResourceBasePath/resources/assets/tux.png";

• Save and exit (Control-X)