Thread:Project:Support desk/WAMP MediaWiki Examples don't work

I'm running WAMP with PHP 5.3.8, MySql 5.5.16, and MediaWiki 1.18.

On a side note, I logged in as Admin and visited: http://localhost/wiki/Special:Version

I see 403 Forbidden, not the version of MediaWiki.

I tried to run the examples discussed here: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker/Extension_Writing_Tutorial

But they do not work either. Special:Example does not exist.

Very puzzled as I was able to load other extensions like Dynamic Page List without issues, so it's not clear to me why the Example extension does not seem to work. I thought maybe I was hitting into something with the colon character and Apache errors, but sometimes the Special:SpecialPages loads and sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes Special:Example is a non-existent special page, and sometimes Special:Example is forbidden. Just very puzzled on this behavior.