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Working on a local implementation of Mediawiki to have educators try out their editing skills
Hi,
Thanks for whatever help you may be able
to offer concerning this issue...

I am working on putting together a presentation
for a couple of Conferences, one a Science and
Technology conference at the McAuliffe Center,
and another for World Language Teachers at
the NHAWLT Conference.

I would like to have a local implementation of
Mediawiki running so as to be able to show
the editing of articles without going realtime.
I'm not sure of what connectivity issues there
may be at the conference centers and I'm
still waiting to hear back if internet access
will be available for presenters...

In speaking with Brion I mentioned that I
had available a Laptop with Linspire, an
iBook and a Gateway with XP.

I've had trouble getting a blue iMac connected
and seeing the network at work... And I'm
afraid of running into the same trouble with the
iBook. The Linspire laptop seems happy with
everything, and it's taken no time to get things
the way I want them on it... recently I'd put
MySQL and PHP on it but I'm not sure of the
correct settings to make way for Mediawiki.

I've looked at the Mediawiki_on_Linux article
and gotten some settings from there... has anyone
had experience with Linspire/Debian on a laptop,
who might be of help in giving helping hints as I
make the move to get it working?

Again thanks for any helpful suggestions you
may have on this subject.

Sincerely,
Jay B.
[[User:ILVI]]
Re: Working on a local implementation of Mediawiki to have educators try out their editing skills [ In reply to ]
What you need is a local webserver (preferable Apache) with PHP and
MySQL. You can also try
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Running_MediaWiki , which includes
links to the OS-specific pages.

After you get the webserver going, MediaWiki should work fine. (of
course, you'll need some content, but you could probably find a
smaller wiki that will give you a database backup.)

On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 21:34:37 -0400, ilooy <ilooy.gaon@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> Thanks for whatever help you may be able
> to offer concerning this issue...
>
> I am working on putting together a presentation
> for a couple of Conferences, one a Science and
> Technology conference at the McAuliffe Center,
> and another for World Language Teachers at
> the NHAWLT Conference.
>
> I would like to have a local implementation of
> Mediawiki running so as to be able to show
> the editing of articles without going realtime.
> I'm not sure of what connectivity issues there
> may be at the conference centers and I'm
> still waiting to hear back if internet access
> will be available for presenters...
>
> In speaking with Brion I mentioned that I
> had available a Laptop with Linspire, an
> iBook and a Gateway with XP.
>
> I've had trouble getting a blue iMac connected
> and seeing the network at work... And I'm
> afraid of running into the same trouble with the
> iBook. The Linspire laptop seems happy with
> everything, and it's taken no time to get things
> the way I want them on it... recently I'd put
> MySQL and PHP on it but I'm not sure of the
> correct settings to make way for Mediawiki.
>
> I've looked at the Mediawiki_on_Linux article
> and gotten some settings from there... has anyone
> had experience with Linspire/Debian on a laptop,
> who might be of help in giving helping hints as I
> make the move to get it working?
>
> Again thanks for any helpful suggestions you
> may have on this subject.
>
> Sincerely,
> Jay B.
> [[User:ILVI]]
> _______________________________________________
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> MediaWiki-l@Wikimedia.org
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Re: Working on a local implementation of Mediawiki to have educators try out their editing skills [ In reply to ]
Success!

Hi, and thanks so much for the help in
getting MediaWiki running. I ended up
using the Linspire Laptop since it was
suggested I stick with Linux... and it
went very smoothly. It took me only
a few minutes to download the updates
and then ran the webscripted install from
the browser at the wiki´s directory...
Right away things were configured,
I moved the file over from the config
to the parent directory and refreshed
my browser... the Main_Page popped
up and the cute flower logo looked
great!

I have a question about the address to
the page... it seems to be

http://localhost/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

or

http://linspiron/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
(The laptop is a Dell Inspiron 1150)

somehow the ¨index.php¨ part doesn´t seem
right... did I goof somehow on
the setup?

Again thanks for all the suggestions and the
excellent support pages I found on setting
up MediaWiki on Linux.

With regards,
Jay B.

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