I'd like to understand better the sysadmin aspects of running a wiki. I don't have, and don't intend to at this stage, a web server, but I do have spare capacity on my LAN server box, where I'd like to install MediaWiki. I found this article: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/documentation-guide/en_US/sn-sandbox-setup.html Would it be straightforward to follow those instructions on a CentOS5 box? Anything I should be aware of? Remember that this is a whole new ballgame for me. Is it likely to meet my needs? Any recommended reading that takes it right from step1 - assuming no special knowledge? Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090911/7564e215/attachment.sig>
Hello Anne: On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Anne Wilson<cannewilson at googlemail.com> wrote:> I'd like to understand better the sysadmin ?aspects of running a wiki. ?I > don't have, and don't intend to at this stage, a web server, but I do have > spare capacity on my LAN server box, where I'd like to install MediaWiki. ?I > found this article:Most of the wiki packages require a webserver to handle the actual web traffic. There are a few standalone ones that contain their own web server, and even a couple that can be used directly from the local storage, but most will install a set of directories and some configurations under an existing web directory.> > http://docs.fedoraproject.org/documentation-guide/en_US/sn-sandbox-setup.htmlThose instructions look fairly generic and *should* work with CentOS5. They don't appear to be a Wiki in itself though, and for a Wiki you won't need to do anything from the local directories to actually edit pages.> Would it be straightforward to follow those instructions on a CentOS5 box? > > Anything I should be aware of? > > Remember that this is a whole new ballgame for me. ?Is it likely to meet my > needs? > > Any recommended reading that takes it right from step1 - assuming no special > knowledge?I use MediaWiki on my LAN. It took me about an hour to configure from start to finish. Packages are available in one of the alternate repos, though I don't recall which one.
Hi, On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 09:15, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com> wrote:> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/documentation-guide/en_US/sn-sandbox-setup.html > Would it be straightforward to follow those instructions on a CentOS5 box?I don't think those instructions are to install MediaWiki, from what I see in the previous page they show how to "publish official Fedora Documentation Project work to the docs.fedoraproject.org website". If you want to install MediaWiki, I suggest you follow the instructions on the MediaWiki website: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Installation_guide I suggest you unpack the distribution under /var/www as that will probably save you trouble with SELinux. If you unpack it under /var/www/html/mediawiki you will be able to access it right away under http://your.server.com/mediawiki/. I suggest you go ahead and try to make it work, if you have specific problems or questions after that, please post them and we'll help you! I have been maintaining a MediaWiki installation under CentOS 5 here and it's been working great so far. HTH, Filipe