Just a note first -- my mail server has been down all day. I can get at
the lists through the archives and gmane, and have just changed my
redirection service to point to an alternate address so I should receive
future mails, but anything sent directly to me in the last 12 hours has
probably not reached me.
Geoffrey Thomas wrote:
Simple question with a complex answer.
How do I install MediaWiki on Windows?
If anyone's been successful at it, they haven't told us. :)
I have Windows XP, Apache 2, Perl, and Cygwin (to do
UNIX stuff). I
don't have PHP or MySQL - I assume I need to install these? Is it
possible to use MS Access 2002 as the database (so it's one less
thing to install)? For TeX equations and other cool stuff, do I
also need some rendering or image-creating software?
You do need PHP and MySQL; there should be installable Windows versions
on
www.php.net and
www.mysql.com.
Hypothetically it might be possible to use Access, but you'd have to
rewrite some stuff. Possibly a lot of stuff.
Not sure what it would take to get TeX support running.
I don't (think that I) have CVS, so is there a
.tar.gz or a .zip
of the relatively recent MediaWiki? Or do I need to download the
Windows CVS client?
I'll tar up the current stable version; it should be up soon.
I'm currently using UseMod because I have Perl
somewhere and it
works as a basic Wiki, but I like MediaWiki's uploads, equations,
advanced formatting, etc. UseMod's installation is basically "change
a few globals and copy into cgi-bin" - MediaWiki's seems more
complex; is it doable on Windows?
If you make it work, please let us know how you did it. :)
Another few questions: Whatever happened to Phase I,
and what's the
difference between Wikipedia's Phase II and UseMod?
"Phase I" is just UseModWiki v0.92. Turn FreeLinks on, WikiLinks off,
NonEnglish on, and optionally use the patch for supporting mod_rewrite.
Phase II is unrelated to UseMod.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)