Manual:Installing MediaWiki on Windows XP

MediaWiki can be installed on IIS (Microsoft's web server) or Apache (free open source). It is easiest to install on Apache if using an Apache/MySQL/PHP bundle, but IIS otherwise.

Apache
The easiest method is to install Xampp for prerequisites and then download and install MediaWiki.


 * 1) Download and install Xampp from here.
 * 2) Use the Xampp control panel to make sure that both MySQL and Apache are running. Port 80 must be free.
 * 3) Download MediaWiki and unzip into the htdocs directory (eg, c:\xampp\htdocs\mediawiki)
 * 4) Connect to http://localhost/mediawiki/ and follow the instructions.

Note that this method produces an insecure installation and you should follow the instructions in the Xampp documentation to secure it. In particular, you should change the default passwords.

Other easy method to install mediaWiki:
 * 1) Download and install PostgreSQL.
 * 2) After installation start Stack Builder utility and check MediaWiki in Web applications. It should install Apache as the web Server by itself.
 * 3) Connect to http://localhost/mediawiki/ and follow the instructions.