Thread:Project:Support desk/Be Our Hero! Please?

Dear MediaWiki Geniuses,

Forgive my stunning lack of knowledge in this field, but I come to you all on a hope and a prayer. A little over 3 years ago, an ex-coworker used this delightful MediaWiki software to build an internal site intended to share the technical knowledge at our workplace (engineering - underground pipelines). For a while, we all added to the site (stored locally on his computer and accessed through our network) and it prospered. After he left, the site fell out of style, time passed, computers were moved, and now nobody can access the site.

Basically, I'm wondering if it's possible to revive this thing, at the very least running off my computer. I have the hard drive on which all of the information and software is stored, I'm fairly competent with computers, can follow directions with the best of them and have done basic coding, but I have no idea where to go from here. I'm guessing it's either an easy fix of properly directing my browser to the file that grants me access to this long lost site, or I should just install a brand new version of the whole thing and can somehow drag all the old information into the new one. Or I should tell my boss I'm an idiot and can't bring this back, and hope he forgets about it by the time we have my year-end review.

So far as I can tell from digging around the folders, here are the versions we've got:

PHP 5.2.5 Apache 1.4.2 MediaWiki 1.11.1 MySql 5.0

Please help if you have any idea if what I'm asking is possible and how I should begin. Thank you all ever so kindly and have a pleasant day.

-Andy