Installing PhpWiki
PhpWiki is compatible with all hosting.com accounts. However, you must install it manually.Although hosting.com servers are compatible with a wide variety of software applications, we cannot provide troubleshooting assistance for application-specific issues.
- Download the PhpWiki installation file at http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpwiki to your local computer.
- Extract the .zip file on your computer.
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Use FTP to upload the extracted contents to the public_html directory of your hosting.com account.
📘 Note For information about how to access your account using FTP, please see this article.
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Use cPanel to create a MySQL database and database user for PhpWiki. You will need this information during the web configuration process.
📘 Note For information about how to create a MySQL database and user, please see this article.
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Use phpMyAdmin to import the MySQL initialization file. To do this, follow these steps:
- Start phpMyAdmin, and then select the database you created in step 4.
- Click Import.
- Under File to Import, click Browse.
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On your local computer, locate the directory where you extracted the PhpWiki files. Open the schemas directory, select the mysql-initialize.sql file, and then click Open.
🚧 Important Make sure you do not select the mssql-initialize.sql file by mistake!
- Click Go. phpMyAdmin imports the data and initializes the database.
- Use your web browser to go to your web site. The PhpWiki configuration page appears.
- Under Part One: Authentication and security settings, in the WIKI_NAME text box, type the name of your wiki.
- In the ADMIN_USER text box, type the administrator’s username.
- In the ADMIN_PASSWD text box, type the administrator’s password.
- Under Part Two: Database Configuration, in the DATABASE_TYPE list box, select SQL PEAR.
- In the SQL Type list box, select MySQL.
- In the SQL User text box, type the name of the database user you created in step 4.
- In the SQL Password text box, type the password for the database user you created in step 4.
- In the SQL Database Name text box, type the name of the database you created in step 4.
- Scroll to the bottom of the page, and then click Save config/config.ini.
- Copy the entire text in the text box, and then paste it into a new file. Save the file as config.ini.
- Upload the config.ini file to the config directory on your hosting.com account. For example, if you uploaded PhpWiki to the document root directory, the full path is /home/username/public_html/config, where username represents your account username.
- Use your web browser to go to your web site. PhpWiki automatically generates templates, help pages, and other application pages.
- When the installation process finishes, Complete appears at the bottom of the page. Reload your web site, and the PhpWiki main page appears.