Manual:Installation

To install MediaWiki you need four components:
 * MySQL
 * Apache
 * PHP
 * MediaWiki itself, which is a suite of programs written in PHP

These notes were written from an installation on Windows 2000. (Please add corresponding Unix directories, commands etc.)

Documentation

 * Apache
 * MySQL
 * PHP
 * MediaWiki_User's_Guide

Latest versions

 * MySQL 4.0 (These notes written from version 3.23)
 * Apache 2.0.44
 * PHP 4.3
 * MediaWiki 2003/08/29

MYSQL

 * Download the latest version of MySQL from http://www.mysql.com/downloads
 * Extract it into a temporary directory
 * Run setup.exe to install (installs into MySQL directory e.g. c:\mysql
 * Add a password for the root user
 * The following example starts by removing the anonymous user that has all privileges, then sets a root user password (Instructions copied from and ):
 * From DOS in C:\mysql\bin\mysql
 * mysql
 * DELETE FROM user WHERE Host='localhost' AND User='';
 * QUIT
 * C:\mysql\bin\mysqladmin reload
 * C:\mysql\bin\mysqladmin -u root password your_password
 * Run bin\winmsqladmin.exe to configure and start mysql
 * To test that the installation was successful
 * Run bin\mysql.exe to open MySQL prompt
 * use test
 * create table test_table (test_id int, test_note text);
 * select * from test_table;
 * show tables; -- list all tables in database
 * describe test_table;
 * show index from test_table; - info on index
 * exit

To be added: Apache, PHP, and MediaWiki...