For information on how to install TWiki on Windows, see TWikiOn, which links to several different techniques (notably TWiki04x02WindowsInstallationGuide). TWiki is used a lot on Windows for development and personal Wikis, as well as on Windows servers. It can integrate with Windows authentication with a little work - Google:TWiki+NTLM.

Some features such as I18N don't work so well on Windows as with TWikiOnLinux - however, if you need TWiki with I18N on Windows, you can use TWikiVMDebianStable (a pre-configured TWikiOnLinux, running in VMware on Windows). This is very easy to install, but does require the installation of a free version of VMware, and uses more memory than a native Windows installation.

The content previously on this page was very out of date and has been moved to TWikiOnWindowsArchive.

There are several perl options on Windows - The 4.2.0 installer currently uses ActiveStatePerl 5.8.8, but I am looking into StrawberryPerl 5.10

Comments

The Windows installer works very well: I was up and running in minutes. And because it uses ActiveStatePerl, it was much faster than TWiki 4.1 (with Cygwin) that I installed by hand. Kudos!

Anyone interested in extensions (plug-ins or contribs) that use CPAN modules not provided by the installer may be interested in my notes: TWiki:TWiki.HowToInstallCpanModules#ActiveState_Perl

One caution about the installer, it puts everything on the "C:\" drive, which doesn't always work in enterprise environments (sysadmins often like to keep that drive isolated to the OS only): it took me a while to get everything working with a different drive. I can upload my notes on that if anyone is interested.

P.S. the PDF manual provided in the installer won't open??

-- SeanCMorgan - 29 Mar 2008

I would be interested in developing the installer to provide the additional functionality of prompting the user for an installation directory with a default value of something like c:\Program Files\twiki\ rather than c:\ unless there is some technical limitation of which I am thus far unaware which prevents it.

-- TravisBarker - 29 Mar 2008

Sean, I'm interested your notes about moving everything from the "C:\" drive to another drive. Thanks!

-- ErikLee - 14 Apr 2008

Erik: I have posted my notes at my user page. Feel free to use the Comment block there for any questions you may have.

Travis, see Sven's comments at TWiki:Codev/TWikiInstaller. He's working to release the source for the build tool but it isn't there yet. You may also want to scan my notes on how i manually moved it to another drive and directory, to see what would need to be changed.

-- SeanCMorgan - 16 Apr 2008

Thanks, yea, the manual move wouldn't be that difficult to do (for someone with our level of experience, I am more concerned about the convenience of the end user who might not have x years previous TWiki experience.

-- TravisBarker - 18 Apr 2008