In this screencasts, we demonstrate the installation of MediaWiki on x32 version in Windows Server 2008.

We follow a similar step-by-step fashion to the one demonstrated in How to Install MySQL, PHP using FastCGI, and Joomla on IIS7.
The recommended approach when installing PHP on IIS7 is using FastCGI, which combines stability and the improved CGI performance.

You will need the following packages for this installation :
● MySQL 5.1 Community Server – Windows ZIP/Setup.EXE (x86)
● PHP 5.2 Non-thread-safe zip package. You can squeeze some additional performance using the NTS PHP package.
● MediaWiki 1.12 package

Step 1 We start by installing the Web Server role on Windows Server 2008.

Step 2 In step2, we install and configure MySQL on our server.

Step 3 Configuring PHP 5 on IIS7 is one of the key steps before we install MediaWiki on IIS7. We also check the result of installing both, MySQL and PHP, on our Windows Server 2008.

Step 4 Finally, we install, configure and test MediaWiki on the server.