Talk:MediaWikiLite

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Revision as of 20:34, 28 May 2010 by Nad (talk | contribs) (Debian package)

Portability

I have long been using mediawiki with a LAMP stack as a personal and home wiki. One of the main inconveniences is that it's not easy to move the wiki around to another machine. It involves dumping the database, copying various files etc. Is Mediawikilite more portable? Parker 11:32, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

Debian package

I wonder how far we are from having a mediawikilite debian package that installs dependencies (e.g. php5+sqlite+nanoweb) and runs "out of the box". It could significantly increase the number of users if Debian and Ubuntu users were only one apt-get away from using mediawikilite. Are there any technical hurdles? Parker 11:32, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

The main hold up really was MediaWiki's SQLite layer which I originally started off, but didn't have the SQL skills to get it to a stable state. But I tested it out not long ago and Brion, Tim Starling and a few others have done a lot of work on it and got it working pretty solidly. I'll take a look at building a deb package for it, but I've got a lot on so it'll probably be slow progress. --nad 03:11, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
That would be great. Let me know if you need any testing done, I'll give it a spin. I haven't succeeded in getting the nanoweb/sqlite (LNSP?) stack working whereas LAMP+mediawiki is quite easy. Parker 20:05, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
As you can see from all the recent activity in this article, I've got it successfully running under both Linux and Windows as a completely self-contained folder structure with no need for installation. A Debian package will be quite easy to construct as a means of running it too because nanoweb is available in the Debian and Ubuntu APT repositories which means it's not much more than a meta package (one that only refers to other required packages but doesn't do anything itself). I'll create one in the next few days and add it to our package repo. --nad 20:34, 28 May 2010 (UTC)

Working

Folder installed into C:\MyWiki in VB

Running this script: C:\MyWiki\php\php.exe -f c:\MyWiki\nanoweb\src\nanoweb.php -- --config=C:\MyWiki\nanoweb\nanoweb.conf

Downloaded and tested, remember to navigate to localhost, can edit etc. --Jack 00:05, 29 May 2010 (NZST)