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#* When installing on windows using the Microsoft installer, add the extension for your database of choice (MySQLi or PostgresSQL) to the features to be installed.

#* If your Apache server has the [http://www.hardened-php.net/ Hardened PHP patch], you may need to edit several variables in your /etc/php.ini file if you wish to have Wiki pages with large amounts of content. In particular, consider the settings for varfilter.max_value_length, hphp.post.max_value_length, and hphp.request.max_value_length. The default settings may limit your pages to less than 10k or 64k in size.

#* Many people report blank pages in recent versions after submitting articles to their new wiki. MostA probablelikely cause is the memory limit in default php installations (mostlyusually 8M8 MB). Please check your phpPHP and/or apacheApache error logs. Solution:To Editmodify this setting edit <code>/etc/php.ini</code> and changeincrease the "memory_limit" setting. For example to f.e. 20Mraise (it to 20 MB replace the existing text with "<code>memory_limit = 20M)</code>". RestartMake sure to restart your apacheApache server after you have changed this value!.

# A '''MySQL database server''', which will be used to store all the text and data. This is available from the [http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/ official download page].

#* As of version 1.8, [http://www.postgres.org Postgres] is also supported. It should be noted that support for Postgres is very new and not as well tested as the MySQL equivalent.