How to stand up a MediaWiki on Windows Server 2012 (10 easy steps with pictures)
Step 1. Setup Windows Server 2012 (see my build a lab series for that if you don’t know how).
Step 2. Patch it and name it blah blah.
Step 3. Download Microsoft Web Platform 4.5:
https://www.bing.com/search?setmkt=en-US&q=microsoft+web+platform+4.5
Step 4. Run it.
Step 5. Click Database, then “MySQL Windows 5.1” and click “Add”
Step 6. Click “Applications” and Select “Wiki on the left to sort it, then click “MediaWiki” and click “Add”.
Step 7. Click “Install” and let ‘er rip!
Step 8. Configure Password to a strong password.
Step 8. Click Continue and then Check the box, help the people who write code to get feedback on their installers, and hit “I Accept” (or don’t, that’s cool too, you still need to hit “I Accept, but you don’t need to check the box).
Step 9. Grab a drink and wait:
Filling in a pw here (pretty sure this should match what we put above, if not I’ll change it later):
Whee
After clicking finish it opens an IE 10 window to local host. It looks like there was a bug where there were // instead of / after ‘localhost’ so I removed one and hit enter. Then I got prompted to turn on “Intranet Security” as it was currently disabled on my 2012 Server (action bar at the bottom of the browser window). After I did that I got this:
Step 10. Do wiki stuff! Share and enjoy!
-The Dude
Comments
- Anonymous
January 01, 2003
Awesome step-by-step, VERY helpful to me. Thank you!! - Anonymous
January 01, 2003
Don thanks for that. I appreciate this helped someone, means a lot to know it :)
best,
Jeff - Anonymous
July 23, 2014
Any experience installing an LDAP extension on 2012 R2? Will it work? - Anonymous
January 19, 2015
@Bjorn - the LDAP extenstion works on 2012 R2
A bit of a headache till u make it work but it does for sure. - Anonymous
February 19, 2015
Thanx for doing this sep-by-step manual ..... !!! - Anonymous
March 18, 2015
Thank you so much for this - Anonymous
May 15, 2015
Man they need to update the mediawiki install page and link it to this article.
Their install instructions were giving me a headache with configuring PHP and what not. - Anonymous
July 10, 2015
I agree with Don. Jeff, I find this very helpful too. I only wish that MySQL and MediaWiki were two different packages. For our installation, MySQL will be on its own server. - Anonymous
October 14, 2015
How on earth do you get the extensions operational in this method. The LocalSettings.php is all funky... - Anonymous
November 04, 2015
Hey thanks :)
Yeah i guess in theory you could always uninstall MySQL later or something. Hm. - Anonymous
January 18, 2016
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November 03, 2016
Is anyone else experiencing the following error? (below) I have scoured the internet for a fix and have yet to find one. Tried Visual C++ 2012, tried different versions of PHP; 5.5 and 7.0, verified IUSR permissions, etc. I'm at my wits end.HTTP Error 500.0 - Internal Server ErrorC:\Program Files\PHP\v7.0\php-cgi.exe - The FastCGI process exited unexpectedly- Anonymous
December 02, 2016
I'm getting the same error. Still not sure why.
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
November 03, 2016
More info on my error...Module FastCgiModuleNotification ExecuteRequestHandlerHandler PHPviaFastCgiError Code 0xc000007bRequested URL http://localhost:80/mediawiki/index.phpPhysical Path C:\inetpub\wwwroot\mediawiki\index.phpLogon Method AnonymousLogon User Anonymous- Anonymous
December 27, 2016
If you're running PHP 5.5.x you need to ensure the VC++11 runtime is installed:http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30679
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
November 28, 2017
The comment has been removed- Anonymous
November 29, 2017
Yeah I can try to do that tonight np.
- Anonymous