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To install MediaWiki on RedHat Linux Enterprise Edition, follow thw following instructions:

1. Download MediaWiki from http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download and untar it

tar zxvf mediawiki-1.5.5.tar.gz
mv mediawiki-1.5.5/ /var/www/wiki

2. Check that httpd and php are installed (from the default installation). I have the following rpms installed.

httpd-2.0.52-19.ent
php-4.3.9-3.9

3. Install MySQL and php-mysql. I had following RPMs.

MySQL-shared-standard-4.1.16-1.rhel4
MySQL-server-standard-4.1.16-1.rhel4
MySQL-devel-standard-4.1.16-1.rhel4
MySQL-client-standard-4.1.16-1.rhel4
php-mysql-4.3.9-3.9

4. Create account on MySQL for media wiki. Either use mysql-administrator or phpMyAdmin or the following commands

[root@queens]# mysql -uroot -hlocalhost -p mysql
mysql> create database wikidb;
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wikidb.* to 'wikiuser'@'%' identified 
       by 'wikipasswd' WITH GRANT OPTION;
mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

5. Change the permissions of MediaWiki config directory.

chmod a+w /var/www/wiki/config/

6. Visit the wiki URl (http://yourhost/wiki/) and enter all configuration details. When finished move LocalSettings.php to parent directory and change permissions of config directory.

mv /var/www/wiki/config/LocalSettings.php /var/www/wiki/
chmod -R og-w /var/www/wiki/config/

All RPMS are available at http://www.db.toronto.edu/~nilesh/linux/rpms/RHEL4/.