On Nov 3, 2003, at 14:52, Freerk Ohling wrote: -snip- (If you haven't already, you may wish to sign up for the mediawiki-l mailing list, we're hoping to split setup help and release announcements off from the day-to-day running-of-Wikipedia and active development stuff here in wikitech-l.) You may have trouble with that old a PHP, some things may need to be replaced with older equivalents. It should be possible to set it up generally, but not with the install script. All the *.php files from includes/ and languages/ (or at least, just he languages/ files you need) need to go into a single install directory, for simplicity this may be the place where you put wiki.phtml and LocalSettings.php. To create the database... first, in phpMyAdmin rename the existing 'cur' table to something else, say 'cur2', for the meantime. Now, in phpMyAdmin you should have the option to run a sequence of sql commands. I forget if there's a script upload option or if you just have to paste in, but take maintenance/tables.sql and maintenance/indexes.sql and execute all the commands in them; this creates the table layout. Now, get rid of the newly created 'cur' table and rename 'cur2' back to 'cur'. If everything's set up right, you now should be able to browse pages. Some features won't work (whatlinkshere, recentchangeslinked, nothing yet in recentchanges, search won't work) and without the link tables it'll be slightly less efficient loading pages, as it has to check the existence of every linked page individually. "In theory" if you put the 'maintenance' subdirectory in there, and you've got an AdminSettings.php, you can run the maintenance/rebuild-all.php script. It may be buggy and may not work at all, be warned, and you really _really_ shouldn't leave the maintenance scripts web-accessible. -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)