Manual talk:Running MediaWiki on Windows

Can't edit
I've installed Apache, MySQL, PHP and MediaWiki on my PC and it all nearly seems to be working. When I browse to wiki.phtml I get the main page with the menus but I can't edit it or go to any of the special pages, I always get taken back to the main page (which is empty). Anyone got any ideas? Mintguy 07:06, 22 Nov 2003 (UTC)


 * The reason it wasn't working was because I hadn't modified the php.ini file with register_globals = On. Mintguy


 * Also look for multiple copies of php.ini in your harddisk. Mine didn't start until I found that the right php.ini where to enable register_globals was the one inside c:\windows, NOT the one in the default php directory. At18 22:23, 8 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Getting sysop rights?
Hi

@first: sorry for my bad language ;)

I've installed MediaWiki on an WAMP-PC ... I wanted to log in as Sysop - but i don't have a password for this User (Do not find this also anywhere) ... Then i've register a new user - this works fine - but no Admin-Rights ;)

Where can i find the Sys-OP-Default-PW?

Thx Patrick


 * See Setting user rights in MediaWiki. --Brion VIBBER 01:11, 6 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Wrong DB?
The instructions on this page say one should enter "use wikipedia" before sourcing the dump. Shouldn't that read "use wikidb" instead? -- Finlay McWalter 23:00, 19 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Download Help
I cant seem to find the Win32 download for Mediawiki. It seems only the Linux version exists at http://sourceforge.net/projects/wikipedia/


 * There is no such thing as a Linux version or Win32 version of MediaWiki. It's written in cross-platform PHP and ought to run unchanged on Linux, Unix, MacOS X, Windows, and any other platform that Apache+PHP run on. --Brion VIBBER 06:33, 28 Feb 2004 (UTC)