On Fri, 6 May 2011, nicolas vigier wrote:
On Fri, 06 May 2011, Christiaan Welvaart wrote:
The current mediawiki package puts the temporary writable config dir in
/usr/share which AFAIK violates FHS - /usr should only be written during
package (de)installation. I checked out the mediawiki package in fedora and
I think we should use it as a base for the mageia package. Significant
differences are:
- tex (tetex/texlive) dependency separated into a mediawiki-math pkg
- separate code (in /usr/share) from configuration (user defined, e.g.
/var/www or /srv) and allow multiple wiki configs
Interesting. To allow multiple wikis with same code, it can be done
in the config file, after setting some variable in the vhost config, the
config file use this variable to decide which config to load.
However the config file is usually created by mediawiki itself, by the
install steps in mediawiki, when the database is created. If the config
file is already there, the database will not be created by mediawiki.
I don't know how it can be done automatically during package install.
I will look at fedora package how they do this.
Users (well, administrators) run a script to create a wiki, this symlinks
index.php (which is in /usr/share) to the directory the user provided, and
creates a config directory where mediawiki will put the config file it
generates. So the website's wiki dir only contains a few symlinks, a
config file and an images dir (the config dir should be removed after
configuration, this is standard mediawiki practice).
I got it working on mageia cauldron after fixing installation for
postgresql databases, but my package is not finished: I didn't check yet if
anything should be merged from the mageia/mandriva package, and I had to
configure the apache side manually, while I would expect some parts to be
preconfigured.
Yes. However, it should not prevent using the package with something
else than apache, or with different settings.
Maybe this config can be done by a subpackage ?
It has documentation in /etc/httpd/conf.d/mediawiki.conf which can be
uncommented or copy/pasted into some other config file. Maybe it just
needs to be moved to /etc/httpd/conf/webapps.d/mediawiki.conf where I
think the mandriva config file was.
Christiaan
