> On 31 Jan 2017, at 08:50, Patrick M. Hausen <p...@hausen.com> wrote: > > Hello, > >> I am reading these >> <http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Drafts/BSD_Install#Attachments> >> installation instructions. Is installing Xwiki inside a freebsd jail >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD_jail> the recommended method? I.e. >> is it "strongly" recommend or is there not much to gain either way. > > Jails are just a form of leightweight VMs or containers (the new buzzword) > and I'd recommend using one to "contain" the application even if you do > not need it right now. At any time in the future you can e.g. just archive > the entire jail, transfer it to a different machine and just boot it ... > > The problem with the cited document is different: > > It's completely outdated! Neither is > diablo-caffe-freebsd7-amd64-1.6.0_07-b02.tar.bz2 > a recommended current JRE nor is Tomcat 6 a recommended version > of Tomcat to run a current Xwiki. > > And the document doesn't even mention ZFS which gives so much > more power to the jail architecture. And iocage ... and ... > > If you are familiar with FreeBSD, I'd recommend setting up a > jail on FreeBSD 11 or 10.3, installing Tomcat and MySQL and then > trying to follow a generic "how to deploy Xwiki in Tomcat" document. > > Personally, even though we are running our entire hosting on > FreeBSD, set up single application servers on whatever > is best supported and requires the least work. And since > apt based installation of Xwiki is so much simpler, I run it on > Ubuntu.
Yes apt is most likely the simplest solution, even though installing XWiki is also quite easy if you know how to install a servlet container (such as Tomcat) + a database (such as MySQL). FTR I’ve also published recently a docker container that contains everything setup, including a libreoffice server for office imports/view. See https://hub.docker.com/r/xwiki/xwiki-mysql-tomcat/ I’ll soon document that on xwiki.org. Thanks -Vincent > > HTH, > Patrick
