On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Zach H. <luckenbach(a)gmail.com> wrote:
When using the wgDBservers option do I need to also
use MySQL replication
or does this handle it all?
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgDBservers
Yes, you will. MediaWiki will only write to the master but will read
from any slave
(per the docs, the first entry in $wgDBservers is considered the master).
Depending on how complicated your setup is, the LoadBalancer configuration
may also be of use to you:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgLBFactoryConf
-Chad