how to start mediawiki

What happens when you insert web (http) address from the blue splash screen of appliance into web browser of your desktop machine ?

It says it cannot find the web page, error 404.

What happens when you go into other address from the blue slash screen ?

When it starts up I get a blue Turnkey Linux Configuration Console. This has an ip address but if I try to go to this ip address in firefox in Vista Business I get nothing. I installed Windows 7 on a Virtual Box as well and it connects to the network with no problems. I am a Microsoft system administrator. If I select Advanced Menu I get a message, Do I really want to quit. If I select yes I get a login screen saying mediawiki login. On your web site it says put in admin as username and turnkey as password but these don't work. If I put in root as username and the password I selected in installation then I get a command prompt and I don't know what to do from there. This is where I installed the appliance. I have a second mediawiki image where I don't install it but just run it directly from the image but this won't let me log in either, and the web address doesn't work either.

Maybe its a problem with firewall within vista. Cane you ping the ip address of mediawiki appliance on virtualbox ?

Virtualbox might be tricky, as on default it connects you to its own dhcp. Tray to change from NAT to host interface in virtualbox (Virtual machine Settings →Network). Make sure its connected to working interface and that its up.

I got it working. I tried different settings in each of the 4 adaptor settings. One worked, not sure which one but I picked up a DHCP address from our router ok.

Could you please tell us what settings did you used ?