(:Summary:Pre-requisites for running the PmWiki wiki engine:)(:Audience: administrators (basic) :)
Prerequisites for running the PmWiki wiki engine:
# [[http://php.net/ | PHP]] 4.3 or later
** PHP 5 or later is recommended
** for PHP 5.5 compatibility use the current version of PmWiki
# Some sort of webserver that can run PHP scripts.

PmWiki has been reported to work with the following OS/webserver combinations:
* Apache 1.3 or 2.0, on roughly anything (Unix, Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X)
** [[http://httpd.apache.org/ | Apache 2.4]] or later is recommended
* [[http://www.lighttpd.net/|lighttpd]] (1.4.19 php-fastcgi ssl) on Linux
* [[http://nginx.org/|nginx]] (0.8.47) on Windows
* Microsoft [[Cookbook:InstallOnIIS|Internet Information Server]], on Windows
* Linux + [[http://www.litespeedtech.com/|LiteSpeedWeb Server]] Standard Edition 
* appWeb (a small, php-enabled webserver) executing on a Linksys NSLU2 Network Storage Link device

PmWiki has been reported not to work on:
* Mac OS before Mac OS X because there's no PHP available
* Specific Release Candidate builds of PHP 5.3 for Windows may not work correctly with passwords

The [[(Cookbook:)Standalone]] recipe provides a special, bare-bones webserver application that can be used to run PmWiki in places where another webserver isn't available.
PmWiki can also be run from a [[Cookbook:WikiOnAStick | USB drive]].