Manual:install.php

MediaWiki file: install.php
Location:	maintenance/
Source code:	master • 1.36.1 • 1.35.3 • 1.31.15
Classes:	CommandLineInstaller

Details

install.php file is a CLI-based maintenance script for the MediaWiki installation and configuration.

Usage

Default options are indicated in parentheses:

php install.php [--conf|--confpath|--dbname|--dbpass|--dbpassfile|--dbpath|--dbport|--dbprefix|--dbschema|--dbserver|--dbtype|--dbuser|--env-checks|--globals|--help|--installdbpass|--installdbuser|--lang|--memory-limit|--pass|--passfile|--profiler|--quiet|--scriptpath|--server|--wiki] [name] <admin>

Generic maintenance parameters:

--help (-h)	Display this help message
--quiet (-q)	Whether to suppress non-error output
--conf	Location of LocalSettings.php, if not default
--wiki	For specifying the wiki ID
--globals	Output globals at the end of processing for debugging
--memory-limit	Set a specific memory limit for the script, "max" for no limit or "default" to avoid changing it
--server	The protocol and server name to use in URLs, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org. This is sometimes necessary because server name detection may fail in command line scripts.
--profiler	Profiler output format (usually "text")

Script dependent parameters

--dbuser	The DB user to use for this script. This value appears in LocalSettings.php for $wgDBuser . If --installdbuser and --installdbpass are given, this value will be used to create a new account
--dbpass	The password to use for this script. This value appears in LocalSettings.php for $wgDBpassword . If --installdbuser and --installdbpass are given, this value will be used to create a new account

Script specific parameters

--confpath	Path to write LocalSettings.php to (/var/www/)
--dbname	The database name (my_wiki)
--dbpassfile	An alternative way to provide dbpass option, as the contents of this file
--dbpath	The path for the SQLite DB ($IP/data)
--dbport	The database port; only for PostgreSQL (5432)
--dbprefix	Optional database table name prefix
--dbschema	The schema for the MediaWiki DB in PostgreSQL/Microsoft SQL Server (mediawiki)
--dbserver	The database host (localhost)
--dbtype	The type of database (mysql)
--env-checks	Run environment checks only, don't change anything
--installdbpass	The password for the DB user to install as
--installdbuser	The user to use for installing (root)
--lang	The language to use (en)
--pass	The password for the wiki administrator
--passfile	An alternative way to provide pass option, as the contents of this file
--scriptpath	The relative path of the wiki in the web server (/wiki)

Arguments

[name]	The name of the wiki (MediaWiki)
<admin>	The username of the wiki administrator

Examples

Set up wiki using a user with required permissions in database to create a new database for the wiki and a user to operate the wiki:

php maintenance/install.php --dbname=wikidb --dbserver="localhost" --installdbuser=root --installdbpass=rootpassword --dbuser=grabber --dbpass=grabber --server="http://wiki.domain.name/" --scriptpath=/ --lang=en --pass=aaaaa "Wiki Name" "Admin"