Spent a few hours today trying to make a “wiki farm” on Debian using MediaWiki. I already had six wikis using separate code directories on the one server, so when I needed to update them all it was a real pain. Having to create a seventh standalone wiki today pushed me to doing this. I documented it here. Not sure if my notes will be helpful to others but I hope so… Took a little longer as I wanted to be to lock down each wiki with htpasswd (I know you can lock down parts of MoinMoin, but MediaWiki isn’t so partitionable).
- John Breslin (nickname Cloud or Cloudie) is...
- Currently a lecturer in Electronic Engineering at NUI Galway and an associate researcher at DERI in the area of the Social Semantic Web.
- Also co-founder and director of boards.ie Ltd., Ireland's largest message board community (see the boards.ie Wikipedia article).
- Founder of the SIOC project (Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities; see the SIOC Wikipedia article).
- Also blogging at SocialMedia.net.
- Creator of WebCamp.
- Advisor to CrowdGather.
- Contactable at skype:johnbreslin or via Skype In / voicemail on +1-415-287-0222.
- This site contains John's personal opinions, unrelated to the views of his employer.
Twitter
- johnbreslin: @IrishTimesBiz that breaking news link is a 40420/11/2008
- johnbreslin: @euan some interesting blog posts on wikinomics.com about brownbook.net and parlus.com (you replied before I could fix typos on iPhone :))19/11/2008
- johnbreslin: @psd I agree, in fact there's a discussion going on about the wastage in one particular Irish campaign at http://url.ie/wqq19/11/2008
- johnbreslin: @Eirepreneur You've gone all "Sapphire and Steel" no-face mannish http://tinyurl.com/6rpt7d19/11/2008
- johnbreslin: @ryancarson Nice one re student tickets, I've passed on the news to researchers in DERI...19/11/2008
- johnbreslin: @damienmulley ...or even boards.ie Parenting, Beer Guts, Third Level Education, like, someone who actually buys bread instead of teenagers!19/11/2008
- johnbreslin: @duggan Hello, just found you!19/11/2008
- johnbreslin: @damienmulley Sounds like it was many ?000k misspent: not targetting the right age group; coulda gone for boards.ie food&drink targetted ads19/11/2008
- johnbreslin: @damienmulley thanks! Delighted with them as you can imagine... I believe our unique visitors from Ireland are the highest...19/11/2008
- johnbreslin: @damienmulley are you going to larry prusak? http://tinyurl.com/6oufdr19/11/2008
Here’s a way to do it with symlinks:
http://swdev.cbri.umn.edu/content/MediaWiki_Tutorial#Administration
Why port 5432 John? Just to get it off the default?
adam
Ooh that looks good Jones, I really wanted something more automated - I’ll see if that can work.
Adam - I don’t remember changing it, so it may be Debian deciding things for me…