RE: [Mediawiki-l] Small Wiki Farm

Ok, I have set up the wiki as a test to begin with before I begin transferring the real site across to correct all my mistakes. All wiki's will be in the same domain just using different directories. I have been able to move all the settings from LocalSettings.php to CommonSettings.php except for the LanguageCode for each configuration. That way I only have to change one file for all the wiki's and never touch the LocalSettings.php again for individual wiki's. I have also setup one database using language prefixes for all the different language versions. (Done for backup ease). Works fine to here. I have added the line indicated below re session mixing but have some concerns as all the wiki's will have the same name - will that cause problems? I would also like a common userbase across all the wiki's. Since I am using prefixes to differentiate the wiki's can I create a table "Users" and point all wiki's to it???? How??? Also want to have a common images directory but will begin to read up on that now - unless anyone want to tell me how to do it?? Thanks Laurie -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of MHart Sent: Friday, 16 December 2005 3:25 AM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Small Wiki Farm Don't use the root directory for English - use separate folders for each wiki installation. I host about 50 wikis on the same server, some with their own domain names, some under a common name. wikis.site.com/wiki1 wikis.site.com/wiki2 wikis.site.com/wiki3 wikis.site.com/wiki4 All under /var/www/wikis: ./wiki1 ./wiki2 ./wiki3 and so on. Sites with a different domain I keep separate: /var/www/site1 /var/www/site2 etc... Just copy the wiki software into each folder and set it up as usual. The main trick is to prevent session mixing, since the same user can access a wiki on the same domain. Just add a line to LocalSettings here: $wgSitename = "YourWikiName"; ini_set("session.name", "{$wgSitename}Session"); // Added line That allows a user to save their login on each wiki, even when it is in the same domain. Here's my whole process for creating a brand new wiki (Fedora Core 4 - pretty much the same for Mandrake too, except you don't need paths for useradd and service commands) ssh to server su cd /var/www/wikis mkdir newwiki cd newwiki cp -R /home/mhart/mediawiki-1.5.x/* ./ chmod a+w config mysql -p (enter password) mysql> create database newwikidb; mysql> grant all privileges on newwikidb.* to 'newwiki_user'@'localhost' identified by 'newwiki_password'; mysql> quit Then I browse to the site: mysite.com/newwiki and run the setup. Then... cp config/LocalSettings.php ./ chmod a-w config vi LocalSettings.php then find the $wgSiteName and add the line I showed above (ini_set) :wq (write and quit) cd .. (now I'm in /var/www/wikis) /usr/sbin/useradd -d /var/www/wikis/newwiki newwiki passwd newwiki (enter password twice) chown -R newwiki newwiki chgrp -R apache newwiki vi /etc/vsftpd/chroot_list (to add that user to the chroot list for FTP access - I already configured vsftpd for chrooting) :wq Then I create a backup cron job for the user - my default mediawiki install has a mysql\ folder in for database backup: crontab -e 50 23 * * * /home/mhart/backup.sh /var/www/wikis/newwiki/mysql newwikidb newwiki (parameters are path for backup, database name, owner name) :wq And I'm done - takes me five minutes :-) If the wiki is on a different website, I use Apache vhosting: vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf (find the virtual hosting stuff) <VirtualHost 111.222.33.44> ServerName whatever.com DocumentRoot /var/www/whatever TransferLog /var/www/whatever/logs </VirtualHost> :wq Then restart Apache: /sbin/service httpd restart An extra 90 seconds :-) - MHart ----- Original Message ----- From: "Laurie Lewis" &lt;ldlewis(a)swiftdsl.com.au&gt; To: &lt;mediawiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org&gt; Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 6:47 PM Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Small Wiki Farm and one appropriate the _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l