Hi Brion, thanks for your reply... at least, it
still puts hope of me
trying to use a single set of software... still struggling, though.
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 6:08 AM, Brion Vibber <brion(a)pobox.com> wrote:
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Ekompute .info
<ekompute(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hi, is it true that multiple Mediawiki websites
must share the same
database
in order to share the same software? I have been combing the internet
and
this seems to be the case.
Nope.
Wikimedia's sites for instance use several distinct clusters of database
servers, each of which includes master & slave servers for one or more
wikis' individual databases.
In that particular configuration, some of those are also shared in that
some
wikis can slurp information from each other directly (Commons files) or
indirectly (CentralAuth's central user database supplements the
individual
wikis' own user tables), but none of it's required. Most importantly,
*NONE*
of them are in the same database. Each wiki has its own database.
(Actually,
I'm not sure the cross-wiki communication stuff works at all if you do
put
them in the same database with different prefixes.)
-- brion
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