Manual talk:Installation on Uniform Server (Windows)/archive

Goals

 * The goals of this procedure are:
 * to have one article that provides a quick and easy procedure to install MediaWiki on as many versions of Windows as possible,
 * to allow the installation to be portable on a small and inexpensive device, and
 * to allow the optional features of MediaWiki to be enabled later.

--Zigger 03:14, 2004 Oct 31 (UTC)

To be done
--Zigger 03:14, 2004 Oct 31 (UTC)
 * Document how to change MySQL's root password
 * Complete text marked "...":
 * : configuring logging at the mediawiki level ...
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 * Re-test final procedure again, on more versions and editions of Windows, by more people
 * Test from a read-only image, e.g. CD-ROM
 * Help fix monobook/PHPTAL incompatibility with PHP 5.
 * Can the "tidy" MediaWiki feature be enabled within this article's goals?
 * Create sourceforge project to contain link to these instructions and pre-built configuration files for further setup speed
 * Reduce storage usage to less than:
 * 20MB to fit on an Iomega Bernoulli Box floppy disk
 * 16MB to fit on a smaller memory card / USB stick

Experience Report
I' trying this out. Downloading works. W:\usr\local\Apache2\bin>apache -f %apachepath%conf\httpd.conf -d %apachepath%. Syntax error on line 288 of \\usr/local/Apache2/conf/httpd.conf: Cannot load W:/usr/local/Php/php5apache2.dll into server: Ein der f\xfcr die Aus f\xfchrung dieser Anwendung notwendige Bibliothekdateien kann nicht gefunden wer den.
 * FilZip won't expand the files with tar and gz and the same time.
 * Configuration of the underlying software; for some of the files you have to guess where they are ...
 * start w mysql gives back an apache.exe is running error, even I don't know about any apache.exe running. Taskman isn't showing one ... Commenting the test out of start.bat works. Maybe some problem with pskill on Win98? Now start.bat starts, gives some error about not enough memory in the environment. Netscape loads w:redirect.htm and shows a light blue screen and an error message (no connection to localhost). Same when I try to connect to 127.0.0.1 -- seems that apache isn't running.
 * After some trying it seems the following is the reason:
 * That is: apache cannot load one of the dlls
 * After some fiddling with "/" and "\" in php.inis, I found another reason why apache won't start: the programme call start.bat is building together get's to complex, especially %apacheit% is to long to store it in the dos batch environment. Starting uniserv with apache as argument manually starts apache. So, setting a higher environment memory for start.bat actually let us start and continue with the installation of mediawiki.
 * MediaWiki installation page says "Something's not quite right yet; make sure everything below is filled out correctly.", but doesn't give a hint what it is ... After some trying: the empty fields are supposed to be password fields for Sysop user account and the wikidb ... Now that works. Or at least, seems to work. It doesn't write out the localsettings file, showing a blank page with no error message. (Trying it on IE instead of Netscape shows that there are in fact labels in front of the form fields. Aha! But it doesn't work here, either).

-- Tillwe 16:17, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)