On Thu, 4 Apr 2013, Mark A. Hershberger wrote:
On 04/04/2013 10:37 AM, Dmitrii Kouznetsov wrote: ..
http://mah.everybody.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-1.21.0rc1.tar.gz seem to be the same as offered at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_Git Is it so?
The tarball has some bundled extensions that I don't think come when you use the second link. See the extensions directory.
Thank you! Now I see the difference. So, I shold use the *.gz rather than the git.
The place to put these files is difficult to guess. No simple algorithm to choose this place is presented. The descriptions at mediawiki.org cited suggest several screens of speculations about, but it is difficult to apply them practically.
I'm not entirely sure what you mean here.
I mean that I have almost no experience making symbolic links with command ln and I am often confised with redirects. I try to choose the simplest way, that still allows the "short url".
You've mentioned before that you're running MAMP on OS X, I think.
I run PHP and MySQL under OS X Version 10.8.2. I suspect, I use MAMP, although the command "about this server" does not specify this.
not sure where its webroot is.
I do know, where it is. It looks absurdly complicated path. I'll place the wiki there.
.. Your perspective on all this is fascinating to me. I haven't really considered that someone without a little basic PHP/MySQL knowledge would try to install MediaWiki.
I explain this with 3 examples below:
1. Designing a first Car, the creator could expect, the users will be techniticans and engineers. But soon or late, someone begins to use a car, without to know difference between gear and clutch.
2. First Computers were made for researchers, mainly mathematicians, physicists, and engineers. Now many people use computers, without to know difference between integral and logarithm. (How many physicians know physics?)
3. First Mediawiki were expected to be for the system programmers. But you may expect, that soon or late, someone will try to install it, without to know difference between PHP and MySQL.
Past week, the last example had been realized. However, now I have the basic knowledge: I have executed one very simple function with PHP and I have created one very simple database with MySQL.
I really appreciate all the insight you've given me so far. But I have to ask, what is your motivation for installing MediaWiki?
I use the wiki engine in my research. In particular, I need a catalogue of new superfunctions.
What are you trying to accomplish?
I need to learn to install Mediawiki by myself. I have server for it. Two years ago, I tried the same. I tried by myself and I failed. Then, few students helped me. We were successful; my wiki worked during two years. Then one student had attacked it, vandalized it, abusing the system account; I did not have enough skills to resist. So, I stop making physics and mathematics and I begin to learn the computation. In particular, I should learn to install Mediawiki by myself. I try to understand each step, in order not to repeat the same errors. So, I advance slowly. It may take a month. I expect, still in this century, one will make a robot, which does the same job within few minutes.
P.S. Installing of MySQL happened to be very tricky: I had to search for the solutions of the problems at the forums. I do not expect the Mediawiki to be easier, but, at elast once in life, everyone should learn to drive a car.