On Wednesday 28 Mar 2012 13:09:47 Oliver Burger wrote: > Am 28.03.2012 13:33, schrieb John Bowden: > > Hi > > I been tinkering with setting up a test wiki @home to test out my mag > > wiki pages before going live. After failing on one pc and succeeding on > > a second box, both of which had task-lamp pre installed. I thought it > > might be a good idea to do a page on our wiki. > > If mediawiki is installed onto a box without the LAMP stack should > > installing mediawiki also pull in mysql (mag1) or mariadb (mag2), php, > > and apache? Or would that be for say a task-mediawiki (I know one > > does not exist). Just wandering before I proceed with the page for our > > wiki > > The current setup of our mediawiki package - which will be changed but > not before Mga2 release - does some strange things. > > The package mediawiki requires mediawiki-minimal which itself requires > php-mysql and php-pgsql. > > It can now be discussed, why php-mysql and php-pgsql do not require php > itself and a webserver. > This should perhaps filed as a bugreport assigned to the php maintainer, > it's imho not a good idea to let mediawiki require php directly Other > distros - iirc fedora - do provide a php package for use with a > webserver and another one for use on the cli. > Php itself can be used as a script language on the command line as well. > > The database server itself is explicitely not required, since you can > use a database running on a different server. > It's not a good idea to let mediawiki require the database server > itself, since it will bloat a server setup which relys on a remote > database server. > > Oliver I was wandering about the database aspect in perticular, but I did not think about running it on a different box. I will adjust my wiki page to reflect that. Thanks John -- Registered Linux user number 414240
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