The answer is right there in the output of the --help command: <admin>: The username of the wiki administrator.
It's the username of your wiki's admin user. See the example here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Install.php#Examples Hope this helps... Jeffrey T. Darlington General Protection Fault https://www.gpf-comics.com/ On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 2:53 PM Jeffrey Walton <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm having trouble with a fresh install using the 1.31 tarball. We are > using MySQL, and I created the database and user per the instructions > at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Installing_MediaWiki: > > CREATE DATABASE wikidb; > CREATE USER 'wikiuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'XXXXX'; > GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wikidb.* TO 'wikiuser'@'localhost' WITH GRANT > OPTION; > > The next step is to run "php maintenance/install.php" but no > directions are provided. Running with information from "install.php > --help" is failing: > > # php maintenance/install.php --dbname:wikidb --dbuser:wikiuser > --dbpass:XXXX root > Argument <admin> required! > > What is the argument <admin>? > > Thanks in advance > > ---------- > > # php maintenance/install.php --help > > CLI-based MediaWiki installation and configuration. > Default options are indicated in parentheses. > > Usage: php install.php > [--conf|--confpath|--dbname|--dbpass|--dbpassfile|--dbpat > > h|--dbport|--dbprefix|--dbschema|--dbserver|--dbtype|--dbuser|--env-checks|--glo > > bals|--help|--installdbpass|--installdbuser|--lang|--memory-limit|--mwdebug|--pa > > ss|--passfile|--profiler|--quiet|--scriptpath|--server|--wiki|--with-extensions] > [name] > > Generic maintenance parameters: > --help (-h): Display this help message > --quiet (-q): Whether to supress 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. > http://en.wikipedia.org. This is sometimes necessary because > server name > detection may fail in command line scripts. > --profiler: Profiler output format (usually "text") > --mwdebug: Enable built-in MediaWiki development settings > > Script dependant parameters: > --dbuser: The DB user to use for this script > --dbpass: The password to use for this script > > Script specific parameters: > --confpath: Path to write LocalSettings.php to (/var/www/html/wiki) > --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) > --with-extensions: Detect and include extensions > > Arguments: > [name]: The name of the wiki (MediaWiki) > <admin>: The username of the wiki administrator. > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > To unsubscribe, go to: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
