Ultimate Geek! I got a link to the MediaWiki page about running a Wiki on a USB drive under Windows.
It’s really easy and cool.
They have you install a package called Uniform Server which consists of:
- Apache 2
- MySQL5
- PHP5
- phpMyAdmin
- Active State Perl
You just unzip the package and run a batch file to start it up.
That’s pretty slick – An entire WAMP server in a ~6MB package. You can install it on any Windows box and run it in production.
Then you just install the MediaWiki package, tweak the settings and away you go.
It’s not the fastest running off a USB stick, but you can plug it into any Windows box, run the start script and you are up a running.
