Thread:Project:Support desk/Installation issue - missing index file and mw config folder

Hi, I've just downloaded the current release package mediawiki-1.23.2.tar and I'm experiencing difficulties for the installation on my local testing system.

I've XAMPP on Windows, Apache 2.4.4, PHP 5.4.16, MySQL 5.5.32

I've extracted the tar archive into the web folder, subfolder mywiki (i.e. e:\webdev\htdocs\mywiki) I've opened the browser to point to http://localhost/mywiki/mw-config/index.php and get an Object Not found error, so I've checked the folder and there is no mw-config folder in the mywiki mainfolder, there is an index.php5 in the mywiki root folder which requires an index.php but there is no such file in the root folder either.

I've checked the archive I've downloaded again to make sure it wasn't corrupted, the file it's fine and there is no trace of the mw-config folder or any index.php file in there. (I've downloaded the archive from http://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.23/mediawiki-1.23.2.tar.gz). The file count in the archive is 4624 for 70691KB - MD5 hash: 8339e7d90ea52c46071e2899d55a4136

My local XAMPP system works perfectly otherwise, just in case you ask.

Any help is appreciated.