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 > > 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 need PHP 5 and MySQL 5, you can use the CentOS Plus repo. Make sure you read (and understand) the readme, though -- it always helps. :) mysq-devel is for developing MySQL apps -- it doesn't mean it's not a dev release, there should be a separate repo branch for that (testing, IIRC). > will testing on vmware be any different than testing on a production box? > (i highly doubt it but i just want to be sure) If you're merely testing the app, it's usually prudent to test it in a QA/UAT/staging environment prior to deployment. VMWare should prove useful for that. But take note that performance may differ -- server / app loads, etc. > 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... It's always hard work -- that's life. :) Just a tip: start small. Build up a basic Media Wiki install, test that, and once you're sure you got it right, move on to installing plugins -- only those that you need, though -- one by one, and test those as well. Document everything. I know I'm being anal-retentive about this, but it wouldn't harm having something written somewhere, so you can trace back your steps should sometime bad happens. Test, test, test. I couldn't emphasize this more. ;) Good luck! - Ian -- Ian Dexter R. Marquez http://iandexter.net | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://feeds.feedburner.com/Coredump _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
