After getting my hands dirty trying to install mediawiki on a Sun Solaris (given that no proper documentation exists for that!) I thought of putting it up here incase someone could use it. So,
Installing Mediawiki on a Sun Solaris -
(1) Download mediawiki from http://sourceforge.net/projects/wikipedia/
(2) cd /var/htdocs (or whatever is your webserver installation directory)
(3) mkdir mediawiki
(4) mv mediawiki-x-y.tar.gz /var/htdocs/mediawiki
(5) tar xvf mediawiki-x-y.tar.gz /var/htdocs/mediawiki
Once the tar file has been decompressed and extracted then
(7) chmod 777 mediawiki (after going to the root /var/htdocs)
(8) chmod +x install.php (in the mediawiki directory)
(9) chmod 777 config (make it writable)
(10) goto http://localhost/mediawiki/install.php
follow the onscreen instructions, then move LocalSettings.php from the config directory to the root directory (/var/htdocs/mediawiki)
Now, you could try mediawiki from http://localhost/mediawiki/index.php/Main_page
and for the administrator page try http://localhost/mediawiki/index.php/Special:Userlogin
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