On Thu, 30 Dec 2004, Thomas L Roche wrote:
This presents several problems for me (and the giant corp for which I slave), mostly of the form "how do I allow an insecure connection inside the firewall protecting the boxen to which I have access to install stuff on?" OTTOMH this seems easiest to resolve by also putting the database in my project's SF web space: as long as I back it up regularly, the damage that can result from the insecurity is limited.
I strongly recommend that you host the wiki on your own hosting service rather than SourceForge. (You can redirect the project web site there.)
- A MySQL server. 4.0.x is preferred, but 3.2.x should work as well.
... does SF provide that? If not, how best to provide a backend suitable for running an MW on SF? Can I just install MySQL in my project's webspace?
Yes and yes you can, as longa s you trust every sourceforge member who is on one of the thousands of hosted projects to poke at your database (including access to password hashes).
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)