spiralofhope

MediaWiki reinstallation notes >

Using PCLinuxOS (version not recorded).

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1. Stuff I installed through Synaptic

(Synaptic)

• MySQL

  • mysql-administrator
• php-mysql
• apache-base
• apache-mod_php

• phpMyAdmin

(and dependencies) I really don’t know what’s essential to install.

2. pcc > system > services, and start mysql

3. change mysql root password?

mysql -u root mysql

UPDATE user SET Password=PASSWORD('??????') WHERE user='root';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
quit

4-aborted.

mysql-administrator

• server hostname: localhost / port 3306
• username: root

• password: (empty)

5-aborted. with mysql-administrator,

# user administration > new user > username
# restore backup > change path to /mnt/cdrom 
# then choose the file
# character set - latin 1
# wait a while
# click 'restore backup'

It gives me:

Error during backup.
Got a packet bigger than 'max_allowed_packet' bytes

Clicking ‘restore backup’ again just segfaults it. Quality.

4. prepare stuff

su
# Start apache
apachectl start
# Make phpMyAdmin work?
cp -a /var/www/phpMyAdmin/ /var/www/html/

PhpMyAdmin

I don’t know how to make a database.. maybe I should just go back to phpmyadmin?

notes:

• user: username

• database: username_mediawiki

Apache has stuff in: /var/www/

… at this point it’s a complete failure, I give up.

I don’t know how to get to PhpMyAdmin.