Thread:Project:Support desk/Not Found on Windows 7

Hi All,

I'm trying to run MediaWiki 1.16.5 for the first time on Windows 7.

Before uploading MediaWiki on the apache server, I downloaded the pre-requisites: - Wampserver: Apache Version: 2.2.17 PHP Version:   5.3.4 MySQL Version: 5.1.53

After installing & starting the apache service, I can access localhost: http://127.0.0.1/. However, I can't access http://localhost/wiki/index.php, I get the error: The requested URL /wiki/index.php was not found on this server.

This is after I copied Mediawiki folder to the directory: /wamp/bin/apache/Apache2.2.17/htdocs/.

I have checked the forums for solutions but to no avail. These are the following changes that I have made so far based on the suggestions on the forums:

- I added localSettings.php in the Mediawiki root - I didn't have it before. I then edited the contents of this file as follows: changed the line $wgScriptPath = "/wiki"; to $wgScriptPath = '';

- Changed contents of the .htaccess to read:

RewriteEngine on     RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|robots\.txt) RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]

- Changed the contents of httpd.php file as follows:

 Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Order deny,allow Allow from all 

Can Mediawiki run on Windows 7? What am I missing? What do I still need to configure?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.