Installation Guide

In order to install the Standard or Enterprise edition of Staff.Wiki on your local network, you will require at least:

  • Microsoft Windows (Server edition is preferred if you have more than 10 users)
  • Microsoft SQL Server (the free "Express edition" is fine for a small to medium sized company)
  • Microsoft IIS (instructions for installing Microsoft IIS can be found here)

Full details of the requirements for deployment can be found in the next section.

Contact us for the Professional Edition ZIP file. Once downloaded, please go to the zip file Properties (in Windows Explorer), and make sure that Unblock is checked at the bottom. It's important you do this before unzipping otherwise the files will be blocked and will not be executable.

Create a folder where you wish to install the files, eg. c:\Program Files\StaffWikiPro

Then un-zip all the files into that folder. When you're done you should have a StaffWikiPro\App_Code folder.

You should be able to run StaffWikiPro.exe to run the Staff.Wiki Professional Edition Test Server. This can be used to test the installation and run a web server hosting Staff.Wiki so you can set everything up and run tests with a small number of users. It also provides a way to configure which SQL Server instance it uses.

Once that is set up correctly, you will likely want to have Staff.Wiki hosted by IIS. Please click here to view the guide on Installing IIS and then Setting Up IIS.

You should now be able to access your website. If you are running StaffWikiPro (the Test Server application), please exit this as it is no longer necessary.

If you have installed SQL Server Express on the same machine, then it should connect to that and create the database automatically. If you want to point it to a different server, then you will need to add a sqlserver.cfg file into the Files folder of Staff.Wiki. Information on setting that up can be found here. This can also be configured using the StaffWikiPro executable.

Once it is running, you will need to register the license in order to add users. Please see this article for more information.

At this point, you should also set up your backup procedure, as per the details in this article.


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