I’m working on a site that’s built in Ruby on Rails, and my partners thought it would be useful to have a wiki for project documentation.  I decided to install MediaWiki which uses PHP and MySQL.  We already had nginx installed since we were doing some perl work previously so I figured I’d get PHP working under nginx in order to run the MediaWiki.

After looking around for resources, I came upon this post that I want to share with everyone.  Following the instructions with a bit of common sense thrown in for my particular environment, I had MediaWiki running in no time.