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)