Setting up Wamp Server and MediaWiki

Download Media wiki from http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download

Download & Install WampServer 2 from http://www.wampserver.com/en/download.php

After the wamp installation click on the wamp icon in the tray

Please note that the Apache server needs to use port 80 and will not run if IIS is currently in use on the machine.

Install Apache, Mysql services (you will have to stop the service then do the install)

Copy the extracted media wiki into a folder called mywikipedia and copy into c:\wamp\www

Open http://localhost/mywikipedia and click on the install

My wiki configuration

Remember the mysql root pwd is by default blank.

To complete the installation, move config/LocalSettings.php to the parent directory. >> goto c:\wamp\www\mywikipedia\config\ and copy the localsettings.php to c:\wamp\www\mywikipedia\