Thread:Project:Support desk/How do I start the Wiki?/reply (25)

Going back to the original question. Running MediaWiki on your own computer is relatively easy to do following our wonderful installation guide. It's worth doing sometimes for debugging / experimenting, but running a website with a domain name... these days most people don't do that from their own computer. Using a home internet connection? You may find you get poor upload bandwidth. You may find your I.P. address changes a lot, so configuring your domain name to point at your computer may be difficult. You should try to get that stuff working before you even think about installing mediawiki. Try to get to the stage where you can see a file index.html containing "HELLO WORLD" text at your domain monsterhunterfans.org