Hi, I've been trying to install MediaWiki on a Sun Solaris machine for about two months now. I've consulted with three programmers and written to several lists and no one can figure it out. Has anyone out there installed MediaWiki on this type of machine?
My research and experience has shown that MediaWiki is one of the best Wiki's around and I would really like to use it. Is this possible or am I SOL? If I can't use it what would be a second best wiki?
Thanks -- Rich Points Rich@RichPoints.com http://RichPoints.com
On Oct 26, 2004, at 1:43 PM, Rich Points wrote:
I've been trying to install MediaWiki on a Sun Solaris machine for about two months now. I've consulted with three programmers and written to several lists and no one can figure it out. Has anyone out there installed MediaWiki on this type of machine?
I did test MediaWiki 1.2 briefly on a Solaris 9/x86 box. I never got the TeX plugin working, but other than that it seemed fine. Can you be a bit more specific on what you've tried so far, and what the problem seems to be?
Briefly, you need: * Apache * PHP * MySQL ... for a basic install that should be it.
I think Sun ships an Apache package, if not you can get it from http://sunfreeware.com/
I'm not aware of a PHP package, but you can install it from source easily enough: http://www.php.net/ (If you don't have a C compiler installed, you can get GCC from sunfreeware.com.) I would recommend PHP 4.3.9 rather than 5.0.2 as we don't yet bundle the updated PHPTAL template library needed to make the default page layout work on PHP5.
MySQL 3.x packages are available on sunfreeware.com. MySQL 4.0 binaries for Solaris are available direct from MySQL at http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/4.0.html
I would recommend MySQL 4.0; 4.1 and higher have various oddities that may cause problems.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
Assuming that you can get Apache, PHP and MySQL to run, there should be no reason why you can't get it to run. You may be missing advanced features like the TeX support and the ImageMagick support, but once you've got AMP configured, you should be good to go.
Wiley have a book that is pretty newbie-proof on how to configure AMP on UNIX-like systems. Solaris should be much the same as Linux or BSD for that.
Cian
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 14:43:22 -0600, Rich Points rich@richpoints.com wrote:
Hi, I've been trying to install MediaWiki on a Sun Solaris machine for about two months now. I've consulted with three programmers and written to several lists and no one can figure it out. Has anyone out there installed MediaWiki on this type of machine?
My research and experience has shown that MediaWiki is one of the best Wiki's around and I would really like to use it. Is this possible or am I SOL? If I can't use it what would be a second best wiki?
Thanks
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Quoting Cian Duffy, from the post of Tue, 26 Oct:
Assuming that you can get Apache, PHP and MySQL to run, there should be no reason why you can't get it to run. You may be missing advanced features like the TeX support and the ImageMagick support, but once you've got AMP configured, you should be good to go.
what am I missing? can't one compile TeX and IM from source?
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 00:29:32 +0100, Cian Duffy myob87@gmail.com wrote:
what am I missing? can't one compile TeX and IM from source?
I'd guess so - I presume they compile on Solaris. That said, even though Windows has AMP the TeX stuff still has "problems" working.
Of course, you could use the GD plugin, but there are problems with that (as brion described earlier in this list).
-- Jamie ------------------------------------------------------------------- http://endeavour.zapto.org/astro73/ Thank you to JosephM for inviting me to Gmail!
Err, disregard that.
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 19:51:44 -0400, Jamie Bliss astronouth7303@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 00:29:32 +0100, Cian Duffy myob87@gmail.com wrote:
what am I missing? can't one compile TeX and IM from source?
I'd guess so - I presume they compile on Solaris. That said, even though Windows has AMP the TeX stuff still has "problems" working.
Of course, you could use the GD plugin, but there are problems with that (as brion described earlier in this list).
-- Jamie
http://endeavour.zapto.org/astro73/ Thank you to JosephM for inviting me to Gmail!
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