Thread:Project:Support desk/installing the software in a laptop/reply

Hi Ali,

yes, it is possible to run MediaWiki on basically any computer, also on Laptops.

What you need to get it running is a webserver with PHP and with a database server (for example MySQL). You can install this on your Laptop, e.g. search the web for XAMPP. XAMPP is a package which contains the Apache webserver, PHP and MySQL. After you have installed XAMPP there will be several folders, one of them named "htdocs".

Inside the folder htdocs you can then install MediaWiki. That way you can run MediaWiki from the URL "localhost" (which will be the Apache webserver on your Laptop).