Manual:Installing MediaWiki on Windows Server 2012 R2

The goal of this guide is to give some a quick and easy way to install MediaWiki on a Windows Server 2012 R2 environment.

In this article we use the Internet Information Server (IIS) instead of an Apache Webserver.

Additionally erklärt dieser Guide wie weitere folgende und bereits wichtige Extensions dazu installiert werden.

Requirements
The following base items will be required: The following software will be required if you want to use the following extensions:
 * Administrative access to the Windows Server 2012 R2
 * MySQL Database (here)
 * 7-Zip (here)
 * Notepad++ (here)
 * Java SDK (here)
 * GNU DiffUtils (here)

Internet Information Services (IIS)
To install IIS follow the steps below: To check your installation open http://localhost, it should bring up the IIS 8 splash page.
 * 1) Open Server Manager.
 * 2) Click "Add roles and features".
 * 3) Select "Roles".
 * 4) Select your server.
 * 5) Add "Webserver (IIS)" role.
 * 6) At role "Webserver (IIS)" include the following.
 * 7) Common HTTP-Features > HTTP Redirection
 * 8) Application Development > CGI

Set Default Document
Set Default Web Site to index.php
 * 1) Open the Internet Information Service (IIS) - Manager.
 * 2) Select the server name from the list.
 * 3) Double click on "Default Web Site" XXX
 * 4) Use Add in the Action pane and add index.php to the list. XXX

Software for extensions stated above
Install the required software for the extensions stated above.

You don't have to install all of it, just the required software for the seperate extensions you might want to use.