El 12/05/11 09:13, KAMOHELO MOFOKENG escribió:

Hi All,

I'm trying to run MediaWiki 1.16.5 for the first time on Windows 7.

Before uploading MediaWiki on the apache server, I downloaded the pre-requisites: - Wampserver: Apache Version: 2.2.17 PHP Version: 5.3.4 MySQL Version: 5.1.53

After installing & starting the apache service, I can access localhost: http://127.0.0.1/. However, I can't access http://localhost/wiki/index.php, I get the error: The requested URL /wiki/index.php was not found on this server.

This is after I copied Mediawiki folder to the directory: /wamp/bin/apache/Apache2.2.17/htdocs/.

Apache2.2.17/htdocs/ is probably http://127.0.0.1/ so for getting MediaWiki at http://localhost/wiki/index.php you would need to move its files to a folder called wiki.

The other changes you did just mess up with things.

I have checked the forums for solutions but to no avail. These are the following changes that I have made so far based on the suggestions on the forums:

• I added localSettings.php in the Mediawiki root - I didn't have it before. I then edited the contents of this file as follows: changed the line

$wgScriptPath = "/wiki"; to $wgScriptPath = ;

I don't know where you got this from, but it's probably wrong. You will need to remove it first so that the wiki will accept to be installed (it will create a LocalSettings for you). Plus $wgScriptPath = ; is a syntax error,m so it wouldn't have worked.

• Changed contents of the .htaccess to read: RewriteEngine on RewriteCond $1 !^(index.php|images|robots.txt) RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]

You shouldn't have needed to change .htaccess

• Changed the contents of httpd.php file as follows: <Directory /> Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Order deny,allow Allow from all

  </Directory>

Using <Directory /> is wrong. You want <Directory>

Can Mediawiki run on Windows 7? What am I missing? What do I still need to configure? Any help is greatly appreciated.

It can.