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Work through the following instructions to set-up a back-up media wiki installation server in your LAN.

As a requirement, the media wiki software (the software that runs wikieducator) needs to have a working PHP, MySQL and Apache platform. Therefore you will need to install and configure PHP,MySQL and Apache. The easiest way to do this is to download XAMPP, a platform that comes with a preconfigured PHP,MySQL and Apache webserver. You can download XAMMP from:


 * 1) For Linux users - http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-linux.html
 * 2) For Windows users - http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html
 * 3) For Other platforms - http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html

Instructions for installing and configuring XAMMP are in their respective download sites.

Once you have installed and configured XAMMP correctly, download the mediawiki software from http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download. Uncompress the mediawiki software and put it within the relevant path to the htdocs folder within XAMMP.

Follow the mediawiki installation requirements to install media wiki in your local machine.