User:Bryan/Enabling thumbnailing and math on IIS

Installing MediaWiki on IIS is convenient, because besides PHP, there are no additional software packages that need to be installed (if you use Sqlite as database). However, by default calling external programs via wfShellExec is not allowed, because IIS does not have permission to run cmd.exe (this is by design!)

Give IIS permission to execute cmd.exe
You need to be administrator. TODO

Enabling thumbnailing
Use GD and you will not be affected by IIS' security policy. However, using ImageMagick is much more memory efficient when resizing large JPEG files.

TODO

Enabling math
Install OCaml and compile texvc in the math subdirectory. An alternative is to install MikTex and use Extension:TrustedMath.

TODO