Re: [Phpwiki-talk] new to phpwiki, problems with basic installation under windows

[Lawrence A. <la...@us...>]

Daniel,

At 09:56 19/02/2002, you wrote:
>hi there,
>
>i'm new to wiki at all and especially to phpwiki, which i want to install
>under windows (xp server).
>
>right now i did install the omnicron httpd server and also php4.
>AFAIC i've done these steps right.


Why are you using omnicron?  You can get a combined php/apache/mysql 
installation such as foxserv  ( http://foxserv.linuxmax.net/portal.php ) 
which will set everything up for you.



>but i've not installed any database, so that start phpwiki brings up the
>following error message(s):
>


If you have not installed a database, phpWiki will not work.  It requires 
either a dbm database, or an SQL database such as MySQL or 
PostgreSQL.  "Out of the box", the wiki uses dbm which is very common on 
*nix systems.  I have no idea if it is available for Windows, but I 
recommend installing an SQL database such as MySQL.  You can then edit 
index.php to tell phpWiki to use the SQL database type.  As I mentioned 
above, foxserv comes with mySQL.  You can also get the binaries from the 
mySQL website.



Lawrence Akka