Manual:Installation

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Prerequsite tools
To install MediaWiki you need four components:
 * MySQL - an SQL database to store the Wiki text, user list etc.
 * Apache - a web server to serve the HTML web pages
 * PHP - the programming language that MediaWiki is written in
 * MediaWiki itself, which is a suite of programs written in PHP

General install instructions
installation instructions

Upgrading instructions
upgrading MediaWiki

CVS instructions
MediaWiki from CVS

Specific install Instructions
There are specific guides for installs on the following operating systems:


 * Running MediaWiki on Linux
 * Running MediaWiki on Slackware Linux
 * Running MediaWiki on Gentoo Linux
 * Running MediaWiki on Debian GNU/Linux
 * Running MediaWiki on FreeBSD
 * Running MediaWiki on Mac OS X
 * Running MediaWiki on Windows

See also:


 * Documentation:Installation