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#Mediawiki windows install#
#Mediawiki windows manual#
#Mediawiki windows archive#
#Mediawiki windows upgrade#

To activate the use of diffutils within MediaWiki, you have to ignore the fact that they won't be found during installation (they may actually be found if you install diff into your path) and open up LocalSettings. Installing MediaWiki Optional Software Diffutilsĭiffutils (which contains diff3) can be downloaded from here, and File (file type checker) from here. Edit permissions on the images directory of the MediaWiki installation and add IUSR with modify privileges. MediaWiki is an extremely powerful, scalable and feature-rich open source wiki package that uses PHP to process and display data stored in a database.

#Mediawiki windows archive#

See Manual:Running_MediaWiki_on_Windows/bitnami for experiences with this method. MediaWiki Part 1 Extract the media wiki archive into C:\inetpub\file, extract that file into the C:\wamp\www\mediawiki directory. Support for older versions is not guaranteed. This can be a good option if you intend to use only the long term stable supported MediaWiki releases. See Bitnami itself for instructions and updated support data. Bitnami installs MediaWiki 1.23 on any of those, and they work alongside Wordpress or other software bitnami supports. It supports an Nginx stack, Microsoft WAMP ), a generic LAMP stack and XAMPP (which it will not install itself and on which only XAMPP-specific bitnami installers work ). Bitnami is a free suite of compatible installers for open source software. Hi everybody, a SysAdmin in my company has attempted to migrate our Mediawiki installation from a Windows server to a Linux one, but discrepancies are.Microsoft Web Platform Installer can install required pre-requisites for you.

#Mediawiki windows upgrade#

The down-side is that some of these are trimmed down or modified versions which makes it hard to upgrade individual components, and other ones are seriously out of date. These will save you 99% of the trouble of configuring each package manually. Under such circumstances it is highly recommended to look for a LAMP or WAMP pre-made combination which can just be installed and used. Required software Getting required softwareĪlthough these products are not that difficult to configure under Windows, it can be extremely difficult to install (by difficult, it takes 30 minutes for WIMP) and configure Apache+MySQL+PHP one product at a time if completely new to apache/mysql/php. Nginx - an alternative to apache and IIS - may be useful if you support MediaWiki across other host operating systems and/or are already using Nginx for internal hosting.

#Mediawiki windows manual#

This page will give you information about installing MediaWiki on a Microsoft Windows system using standard installation methods.įor Windows-only hosting environments, the WIMP stack (using IIS) was recommended over Apache, (WAMP stack) as of 1.18, for manual installs.

Click on the button when you are ready.This page's contents mainly superseded by Manual:Running MediaWiki on Windows Subsystem for Linux.

Database character set - We recommend using Backwards-compatible UTF-8.

Storage Engine - We recommend using InnoDB as a storage engine for your database.

Database table prefix - You can leave this blank or type in a table prefix for example, mw_ or wiki_.

The option for the Superuser account should be left unchecked.

Enter the database name, database username, and password in the MySQL database, username, and password you created while you set up the database from cPanel.

In this section, you will have to set up your MySQL database details – In this step, you should configure email features for your wiki installation. Įmail, email notification, and authentication setup You will also have to set an admin username and password and select a caching method. If that doesnt suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to MediaWiki and many of them are available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. The best Windows alternative is Notion, which is free. In this section, you will have to choose a name for your wiki, contact email, language and license. MediaWiki is not available for Windows but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on Windows with similar functionality.