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Can you give more details on what your doing? Something I've done recently might be of use to you. I have multiple instances of the database, and the software decides which database/settings it should use. Is this kind of like what your looking for?

-----Original Message-----
From: Vani Bhat [mailto:vani_tech@rediffmail.com]
Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 9:09 AM
To: mediawiki-l@Wikimedia.org
Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Creating mediawiki instances


 
Hello,

I have installed Mediawiki on Solaris. Now I would like to create multiple Mediwiki instances. Can someone help me in doing this?

Thanks,
Vani
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On Dec 6, 2004, at 7:08 AM, Vani Bhat wrote:
> I have installed Mediawiki on Solaris. Now I would like to create
> multiple Mediwiki instances. Can someone help me in doing this?

Do what you did once, again.

If you intend to run a large number of wikis from a central source
instance, see http://wp.wikidev.net/Wiki_farm for some info on how
Wikipedia is configured.

(Short story: put the source in one place, have a couple symbolic
links, beef up LocalSettings.php to detect which wiki is being loaded
and configure appropriately.)

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

On 6 Dec 2004 15:08:55 -0000, Vani Bhat <vani_tech@rediffmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have installed Mediawiki on Solaris. Now I would like to create multiple Mediwiki instances. Can someone help me in doing this?


Have a look at http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2004-November/026326.html
and its replies in the mailing list archive for pointers on how to set
up a single install running multiple sites (which I presume is what
you want).

--
Rowan Collins BSc
[IMSoP]

The easiest way is to create a new copy of the mediawiki directory
tree, and run config again.

-- Zigger

On 6 Dec 2004 15:08:55 -0000, Vani Bhat wrote:
> ...
> I have installed Mediawiki on Solaris. Now I would like to create multiple Mediwiki instances. Can someone help me in doing this?
> ...

Zigger wrote:
> The easiest way is to create a new copy of the mediawiki directory
> tree, and run config again.
>

Really, setting things up the way I describe here -

http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2004-November/026473.html

is working very well for me. It's very easy to manage, including
version control of the various projects, with all the different
sandboxes pointing to the same db, ability to work on each instance
individually w/out affecting the others, etc.

With the new table prefixes in 1.4 should be easy to run out of a single
db, if you so desire.

The wikipedia configuration that Brion describes makes alot of sense if
all your wikis have very similar policies and skins, but I feel that the
LocalSetting file should read more like a properties file, and not have
any control flow (conditional settings or instances specific stuff).

good luck,
Jonah



> -- Zigger
>
> On 6 Dec 2004 15:08:55 -0000, Vani Bhat wrote:
>
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>>I have installed Mediawiki on Solaris. Now I would like to create multiple Mediwiki instances. Can someone help me in doing this?
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