IpbWiki Installation

Steps

Step 1: Install Invision Power Board
Step 2: Install MediaWiki
Step 3: Install IpbWiki Core
Step 4: Install IpbWiki Interface
Step 5: Configure IpbWiki

Step 2: Install MediaWiki

(if you already have an installation of MediaWiki then skip this step)

You can download MediaWiki from MediaWiki.org
Be carefull with the version you pick to install as starting from MediaWiki 1.7 MediaWiki requires PHP5! If you have PHP4 on your webhost then install the latest version of MediaWiki 1.6 which is compatible with PHP4, at the time of writing this article this is MediaWiki 1.6.9

After downloading the package upload the extracted files to your webhost. Start the installer by pointing your browser to the root of your wiki, eg: http://www.yoursite.com/wiki/index.php

The screenshots show the MediaWiki 1.9 installation process, you can of course install a more recent version of MediaWiki, to see which versions of MediaWiki are compatible with IpbWiki, check the Main Page

You are presented with a welcome screen, click on the link set up the wiki first.

MediaWiki now checks your configuration, if everything is ok you should see the message: Environment checked. You can install MediaWiki.

Scroll down to the site config section.

In wiki name you provide the title of your wiki, the shorter the name the better.
In contact email you provide your email address. Note that this email address is displayed in some error messages, used as the return address for password reminders, and used as the default sender address of e-mail notifications
Choose your language, be aware that some localisations might not have a translation yet for every resource string.
Copyright/license indicates under which license your wiki pages are licensed, if you choose the GNU free documentation license for instance than you can copy any of the articles of Wikipedia (or any other site with this license) on your wiki. The GNU free documentation license is however not compatible with most other licenses though, (details GPL license, details Creative Commons license)
Admin User Name, Password: choose a admin name / password (the moment you integrate Ipb with MediaWiki through IpbWiki this user will be ignored.)
Shared memory: if you Use a shared memory system such as Turck MMCache, APC, eAccelerator, or Memcached then provide the server addresses and ports in a comma-separted list.

In the E-mail, e-mail notification and authentication setup you chose how the wiki will handle the email settings.

In the database config section you provide details about the database you wish to install MediaWiki into, this can be the same database as your Invision Power Board database or you can install MediaWiki in a seperate database. MediaWiki by default doesn't prefix the database tablenames, I however usually choose mw_ as a prefix for the MediaWiki tables. For database charset I usually choose UTF-8 (the default). If the mysql user you provide in the database user does not have rights to create database tables, the check the box use superuser account and provide the root password. If your other database user has sufficient rights then you can ignore the super user account section

Click on Install MediaWiki!

The installer will now create the mediawiki tables and populate it with default values. After the installation finish you should have an output similar to: