[Mediawiki-l] Any leads on a basic wikisetup-and-configure instruction manual?

[Fred Bauder]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Monahon, Peter B. [mailto:Peter.Monahon at USPTO.GOV]
>Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 02:15 PM
>To: mediawiki-l at lists.wikimedia.org
>Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Any leads on a basic wikisetup-and-configure instruction manual?
>
>> Kasimir wrote: 
>> run 'php maintenance/createAndPromote.php 
>> ##username## ##password##'
>> (replacing ##username## with your desired 
>> username, and ##password## with your 
>> desired password)
>
>Peter Blaise responds: Thanks.  "Run" ... from where?  I have
>\www\mediawiki\maintenance\createAndPromote.php but no "run" or "php"
>command or executable (WinXPPro/DOS), and the file does not open in my
>browser (IE6).

There usually is no run command, but you should have a php command, so (from the command line, in the maintenance directory)

php maintenance/createAndPromote.php

should do things (looks like more is required, but I'm unfamiliar with this.

Fred