On 3/27/06, Domas Mituzas <midom.lists(a)gmail.com> wrote: Ok, sorry I should have been a little bit more clear ;) What development environment do I need? I have the Sun java IDE (can't remember the name off the top of my head), and have MSSQL. However, I have never installed mediawiki. I will presumably need to download at least some minimal mediawiki DB to work on... *cough* See why I'd rather read a document than ask all these newbie questions in public? :) Steve

Steve Bennett-4 wrote: You need * a web server (recommended Apache) * PHP * MySQL You can download Mediawiki from SourceForge if it is working. It can be possible to find static dumps of the code somewhere near the database dumps. You do *not* need to download an entire Wikipedia of any flavour :-) Just sticking a minimal page-set into your installation should be sufficient if you want to hack the code. (Although it might be an idea to provide a minimal page-set as a download so that everybody can reset to the same position for testing...) HTH HAND -- Phil who installed Mediawiki about 4 years ago on a laptop that subsequently imploded (no direct connection :-) and really ought to set about recovering the situation :-) -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Getting-involved-t1347901.html#a3609707 Sent from the Wikipedia Developers forum at Nabble.com.

I use Microsoft Windows with IIS, PHP 5 and MySQL 5 for my main development/test environment and I have no problems with it, although having a virtual machine with FreeBSD, Apache et al. on for additional testing is nice. :) "Support" is a relative term, since MediaWiki sets out loose requirements. Your web server needs to be able to handle PHP, and PHP as installed needs session support, the PCRE libraries, and MySQL support, so your choices are going to be dictated in part by the OS and personal preferences. Obviously if you were going to be coding things like Oracle or PostgreSQL support, you'd want PHP configured and plugged in to work with those too. Rob Church On 27/03/06, Steve Bennett <stevage(a)gmail.com> wrote: