Fact of the matter is:
You MUST have a functioning Apache install.
You MUST have a functioning PHP install.
You MUST have a functioning mySQL install.
It's not important what those are for. They could be for WordPress. Or Drupal. Or MediaWiki. Or Short URL script. Or Gallery2. Point is, you have to have the prerequisites installed and working.
I most highly strongly unequivocally without reservation recommend you use WAMP to install the three packages.
If you can't because you don't have proper administrative access to the OS, then you are out of luck. Like trying to get backstage to see John Prine if you don't have an after show pass. T'ain't gonna happen, and no amount of beseeching other fans on the JP list is gonna make it so.
Seriously. WAMP. The link's been given.
Peace. Out.
On 5/25/07 1:19 PM, "Monahon, Peter B." Peter.Monahon@USPTO.GOV either wrote, forwarded or quoted:
Peter Blaise responds: Thanks, but I'm ONLY trying to install MediaWiki (and whatever it takes to support it), so everyone says, "ask somewhere else"! Go to Apache and say, "my goal is to support MediaWiki" and they say, "ask MediaWiki!" Go to PHP and say, "my goal is to support MediaWiki, and they say, "ask MediaWiki!" And so on. What you're saying is like asking for car performance tuning help and being told, "did you ask the highway department about their road and how it's supposed to handle?" Argh!