How To Install MediaWiki From Softaculous

You can create your own website with MediaWiki, a free server-based program or content management system designed in the wiki software paradigm. For a website that receives millions of views per day, it is intended to operate on a sizable cluster of servers. PHP is used by MediaWiki, a feature-rich wiki implementation and sophisticated, scalable software, to process and display data from databases like MySQL.

Now to install MediaWiki from Softaculous follow these simple steps:

• Login to the cPanel.
• Navigate to the Software section and click on Softaculous Apps Installer.
• On the left-hand side, you will see a search box in that search for MediaWiki and click on it.
• As you can see the Softaculous dashboard where you can click on Install Now to install MediaWiki.
• In the MediaWiki installation dashboard, you can edit the field named as choose installation URL to change the protocol, domain and directory or leave them default.
• In the Admin account section, you can enter Admin Username as per your choice or keep it as default. If you want to change the admin password then click on the Key icon and it will generate a strong alphanumeric password.
• Note this password as you will require it at the time of logging in to MediaWiki.
• Go to Advanced options and if you wish to then you can enter the Database Name as per your choice, you can change the Table Prefix name as per your choice, this will give you a unique prefix to stop any naming conflicts or confusion to the database name.
• If you don’t want any notification for emails then check the option Disable Update Notifications Emails.
• 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.
• By selecting Upgrade to any latest version available option, if a new version of MediaWiki is available then your current version gets updated to the latest version.
• In the Email installation details to field enter the email id where you wish to receive the installation details.
• Now, click on the Install button.
• It may take 3-4 minutes for the installation.
• Click on the Administrative URL and enter username and password.
• Then click on Log in button and you will see the MediaWiki dashboard.

Thus, MediaWiki from Softaculous can be installed in this manner.