[dundee] Mediawiki

[Dan Bolser]

2009/7/2 gordon dunlop <astrozubenel at googlemail.com>:
> Rick was mentioning about installation of Mediawiki. I just want everyone to
> know that Mediawiki should be in all the main distribution repositories, it
> is version 1.13 in Ubuntu and 1.15  in Fedora. If anyone was going to try it
> out here are some quick tips prior to site configuration via web browser:
>
> 1. Link skins,images & extensions directories in /usr/share/mediawiki to
> /var/www/wiki
> e.g. When in /var/www/wiki directory, open terminal
> $ sudo ln -s /usr/share/mediawiki/skins  /var/www/wiki/skins
> 2. Create your database prior to  site configuration so that root
> permissions are not req'd.
> 3. Install a php accelerator
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_PHP_accelerators
>
> If anyone has a problem with the above let me know.

Do you have any experience with  php accelerators? Which is easiest to
install? What is the impact on the stack of caches that lies between
viewing the web page and the MySQL MW database?

Do you have any experience with Semantic MediaWiki?


Cheers,
Dan.

> Gordon
>
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