Help:Installation

To install MediaWiki you need four components:

• MySQL
• Apache
• PHP
• MediaWiki itself, which is a suite of programs written in PHP

These notes were written from an installation on Windows 2000.
(Please add corresponding Unix directories, commands etc.)

Documentation

• Apache
• MySQL
• PHP
• MediaWiki_User's_Guide MediaWiki

Latest versions

• MySQL 4.0 (These notes written from version 3.23)
• Apache 2.0.44
• PHP 4.3
• MediaWiki 2003/08/29

MYSQL

• Download the latest version of MySQL from http://www.mysql.com/downloads
• Extract it into a temporary directory
• Run setup.exe to install (installs into MySQL directory e.g. c:\mysql
• Add a password for the root user
  • The following example starts by removing the anonymous user that has all privileges, then sets a root user password (Instructions copied from [1] and [2]):
  • From DOS in C:\mysql\bin\mysql
    • mysql
    • DELETE FROM user WHERE Host='localhost' AND User=;
    • QUIT
    • C:\mysql\bin\mysqladmin reload
    • C:\mysql\bin\mysqladmin -u root password your_password
• Run bin\winmsqladmin.exe to configure and start mysql
• To test that the installation was successful
  • Run bin\mysql.exe to open MySQL prompt
    • use test
    • create table test_table (test_id int, test_note text);
    • select * from test_table;
    • show tables; -- list all tables in database
    • describe test_table;
    • show index from test_table; - info on index
    • exit

To be added: Apache, PHP, and MediaWiki...