Thanks for the reply but... eeek i got overwhelmed (with more items for reading; i only started centos not too long ago).. please see replies
On 8/1/07, Rebs Guarina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 8/1/07, Rommel Asibal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hello Everyone, > > > > I'm new here, and was hoping someone has had experience with setting up > > Mediawiki on a Centos box; I'm pretty new to Centos and mw and have been > > doing so much googling my hands hurt, but am still having problems with > > upgrading my MediaWiki to the latest version cleanly... im trying to get our > > company wiki a few more features but not sure if i'm on the right track. > > > > i have a few questions in mind, like > > > > 1. should i be using the centosplus repo? i saw that there was a > > mysql-devel package there, im not really sure but does that mean its > > still > > under development and not a stable release? (im using centos 4.4) > > > > > If you are building an embedded system, or if you have a development > machine where you'd want to try the updates out first before rolling them > out to the production machine, then there's actually no need for a centos > plus repository there, unless you would want them to be there. > i actually thought of using centosplus because i needed php5 and mysql 5 for upgrading mediawiki to ver 1.10 (those are requirements and when googling it seemed like the easiest way out) im not really sure what other effects using centosplus has... actually im documenting the steps out in my wiki itself, ill see if i can get a copy out on the web and not on the intranet so you can see if what im doing is right (if thats ok with you) > > 1. will testing on vmware be any different than testing on a > > production box? (i highly doubt it but i just want to be sure) > > > > > Not really... > > > > 1. could it be that mediawiki is buggy with certain plugins / > > extensions; oh i wish i knew how to debug something liek this but its > > just > > so time consuming... > > > > though linux doesn't have dtrace and mdb, you could probably have some > success with a combo of strace and lsof... > strace and lsof hmmm just looked them up but have no idea how to use those.... but in such a large project do you think they would be useful? are those in some way debugging tools for php? HTH > > > can anyone give me a few ideas to play with? > > > > tia! > > > > ~rommel > > > > > >
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