Dear Peter,
If you want help, do not ask people for their success stories. They take a *very* long time to write up, and they are things that will not help somebody like me at all. If something is going to take a long time and I would not ever use it, I just don't feel like doing it. It is not that I don't have the experience, I have 4 wikis running off the same code base but isolated databases, a central media repository, and different but isolated skins for each, with many custom extensions and hacks, including using the Lucene search engine, etc.
There is no way that I am going to spend a day writing up everything that I did when it seems that you are the only user who is having difficulties installing a wiki. What this means to me is that you do not understand the fundamental workings of the code. The solution to that? Play around with simple projects until you understand how code and sysadmining works.
I'm not trying to attack you, but I honestly think that you should first become very comfortable with the basics, and with the ideas behind how code functions, before jumping into a project such as this. I also believe that this is why so many people have suggested that you hire somebody to do it---it looks like any amount of documentation about MediaWiki would not help you at this point. You need to step back a bit and just understand the basics.
Just my two cents, Kasimir
On 5/25/07, Daniel Barrett danb@vistaprint.com wrote:
Daniel wrote: ... I installed on Windows and it was easy. MySQL, Apache, PHP, and MediaWiki 1.93 in 1 hour, successfully, on the
first
try, with no previous MediaWiki experience. All I did was follow the
instructions [links?], plus a little Googling when I hit a snag [details?] ..
Peter Blaise responds: (a) I'd LOVE to read your notes on MediaWiki.org
I did this with the EXISTING notes on MediaWiki.org. I didn't do anything out of the ordinary. If you are finding this hard, you should hire an expert to help you.
(b) Can you do it again? Can you build a 2nd wiki on the same PC? With and without sharing the same database? More?
I have done 5 MediaWiki installations, on the same PC and on different PCs, using nothing but the instructions. If you are finding this too hard, I recommend you hire an expert.
This is my last response on this topic.
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