On Friday 11 September 2009 14:34:00 Filipe Brandenburger wrote:
Hi,
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 09:15, Anne Wilson cannewilson@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.
Filipe and Kwan - Yes, I did realise that the fedora instructions were for the web server, not for mediawiki. If I have understood Felipe aright, installing mediawiki under /var/www/etc will keep it in the sandboxed area - correct?
I'm chief contributor to userbase.kde.org, and we have several issues that need sysadmin time. The kde sysadmins are overworked, and we are not making progress, for a number of reasons, in getting those issues resolved. The idea of this is that if I can do the sysadmin role on a local installation I can experiments safely away from the real one, and try to find working solutions, which can then be passed to those with admin rights on the kde server.
If I succeed in setting this up I'll be very glad to get back to you for help with specific questions, thanks.
Anne