Installing TikiWiki 4.2

TikiWiki is an open source web-based application that does many things including collaboration and bug tracking.

Prerequisites
Web server configured to process PHP pages
PHP
MySQL

Versions used
PHP 5.2.8
Apache 2.2.8
MySQL 5.0.45

Steps

• Download the zip package from the tiki website, tikiwiki.org
• Unzip the zip file to the webserver document root e.g c:\apache\htdocs
• Rename the folder created e.g. to tiki
• Open a command prompt window
• Type mysql -h localhost -u root -p [assuming mysql is in the system path]
• Enter the root password

mysql> create database tiki;
mysql> grant all on tiki.* to tiki@localhost identified by “tiki”;
mysql>quit

• Using a browser, navigate to localhost/tiki
• Follow the instructions of the installer