MediaWiki is the software used by Wikipedia run, its a fantastic way to document share.

I would recommend installing DNSMasq to allow as to use fully qualified domain names. See here.

Setting up Mediawiki is a pretty simply task, does not really require a high level of experience. Lets dig in, install software.

Once completed we start setting up the housing for MediaWiki, the following will also download the software from MediaWiki’s site and unzip it.

Then we’ll need to setup the database and user permissions.

Now we’ll begin the Mediawiki installation, easy part. Navigate to the following URL and start the point and click install.

Once connected you’ll see this.

Click on the “Set up the wiki” link, follow the instructions and enter all the information it requires. Take note, youll need the database,username and password we input earlier. Once it has finished it will let you download the LocalSettings.php file to your computer. You’ll need to upload it to the /var/www/html/wiki directory.

Lets create the DNS entries.

Insert the following line

Now restart DNSMasq

We also need to setup the virtual host in apache

Insert the following line

Restart apache.

Make sure your connected to the AP while your setting up, otherwise the setup will use the LAN IP to setup the config file.

Enjoy!