On Sat, Dec 22, 2018 at 4:17 PM Jeffrey Walton wrote:
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> We use CentOS 7. Red Hat supplies antique software. It offers Media
> wiki 1.21, if I recall correctly. It is what it is. We had to take on
> maintenance of Mediawiki because we wanted to offer newer features
> users. Skins and extensions
I'd always recommend MySQL or a highly compatible variant such as
MariaDB - Postgres is great, but Wikimedia runs MariaDB so I do too.
- d.
On Sat, 22 Dec 2018 at 18:18, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
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> On Sat, Dec 22, 2018 at 12:59 PM Ryan Schmidt wrote:
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> > Try installing MariaDB instead of
On Sat, Dec 22, 2018 at 12:59 PM Ryan Schmidt wrote:
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> Try installing MariaDB instead of MySQL. It is a drop-in replacement and the
> version available in CentOS 7 is recent enough to run modern MediaWiki once
> you enable the MariaDB yum repo.
Let me ask this... CentOS provides Postgres
Try installing MariaDB instead of MySQL. It is a drop-in replacement and the
version available in CentOS 7 is recent enough to run modern MediaWiki once you
enable the MariaDB yum repo.
> On Dec 22, 2018, at 9:44 AM, John wrote:
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> I hate to be a downer (I’m normally the one complaining
I hate to be a downer (I’m normally the one complaining about said updates
breaking stuf$ but realistically major version bumps are needed. Ubuntu
14.04 is almost 5 years old and only has 4 more months of support. MySQL
5.5.x went EOL 3 years ago. You want to push support past that? CentOS to
my
We use CentOS 7. Red Hat supplies antique software. It offers Media
wiki 1.21, if I recall correctly. It is what it is. We had to take on
maintenance of Mediawiki because we wanted to offer newer features
users. Skins and extensions sometimes need something newer than what
the platform provides.
