http://www.tola.me.uk/taxonomy/term/30/0 en http://www.tola.me.uk/blog/2006/10/17/wiki_farm <p>I've just set up a wiki farm with <a href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki">MediaWiki</a> for the new <a href="http://hippygeek.co.uk">hippygeek.co.uk</a>. This means running multiple instances of MediaWiki from a single installation, to reduce the amount of work needed to perform upgrades on multiple wikis.</p> <p>Basically it involves symlinking the entire contents of the mediawiki directory for each instance, with a few exceptions. I'm not sure how well this will scale if I automate creating wikis in this way and I'm yet to attempt an actual upgrade, I'll write about my experiences here.</p> <p>If you're looking to do this, I basically followed <a href="http://prevolution.org/mediawikifarm">these instructions</a> with a few modifications, like having a separate database and images directory per wiki.</p> <p>I also set up <a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Eliminating_index.php_from_the_url">cleaner URIs for MediaWiki</a> and <a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Access_Restrictions MediaWiki">disabled anonymous editing</a> for now as spam prevention.</p> http://www.tola.me.uk/blog/2006/10/17/wiki_farm#comment hippygeek SaaS technology wiki Tue, 17 Oct 2006 19:49:54 +0100 tola 43 at http://www.tola.me.uk