Sorry but any assistance gratefully accepted. I am very new to this and
trying to set up a number of wikis on the one site. All of them will
deal with the same topic they are just in different languages. I have
been playing around with it for a while but seem to just keep breaking
it. I also found this article but I am having some problems following
it.
How do I create a small wiki farm?
After copying the mediawiki source tree in /opt/mediawiki/ you need to
run something like:
mkdir .../wiki
cd .../wiki
mkdir images
ln -s /opt/mediawiki/languages /opt/mediawiki/maintenance \
/opt/mediawiki/skins /opt/mediawiki/redirect.php .
cp -a /opt/mediawiki/config/ .
chown www-data: config/
cp /opt/mediawiki/index.php index.php
Then add /opt/mediawiki to the commands which set the include_path in
config/index.php and add something like this to the main index.php:
ini_set( "include_path", "/opt/mediawiki:." ); # line added
require_once( 'includes/Defines.php' ); # this line used to include
'./includes/Defines.php'
* make sure your webserver can read from /opt/mediawiki
What I have done so far.
Mkdir mediawiki //Placed all the mediawiki files into this
directory
Created directories for
French
Danish
Spanish
German
Using root directory for English
Created symbolic links for all files and directories in /mediawiki in
each language based directory
Ran the installation process for each language based wiki and moved
LocalSettings.php
For each wiki I am using a separate database as when I tried to use one
database with prefixes it did not work - It would not show appropriate
languages for each wiki but got stuck on one.
The only settings that different in each of the wiki's is basically the
languagecode and databasename. I have tried moving nearly all the
settings from the LocalSettings.php to a CommonSettings.php file and
calling it with an include_once statement but this just seems to break
things also.
Can anyone give me some very simple instructions on how to do this.
Thanks
Laurie