Manual:Installation

Prerequisite 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

Platform-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