Hi Brion, thanks for your reply... at least, it still puts hope of me trying to use a single set of software... still struggling, though.
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 6:08 AM, Brion Vibber <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Ekompute .info <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hi, is it true that multiple Mediawiki websites must share the same > > database > > in order to share the same software? I have been combing the internet and > > this seems to be the case. > > > > Nope. > > Wikimedia's sites for instance use several distinct clusters of database > servers, each of which includes master & slave servers for one or more > wikis' individual databases. > > In that particular configuration, some of those are also shared in that > some > wikis can slurp information from each other directly (Commons files) or > indirectly (CentralAuth's central user database supplements the individual > wikis' own user tables), but none of it's required. Most importantly, > *NONE* > of them are in the same database. Each wiki has its own database. > (Actually, > I'm not sure the cross-wiki communication stuff works at all if you do put > them in the same database with different prefixes.) > > -- brion > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > -- PM Poon _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
