I'd like to take my local wiki (1.12) and bring it places to show it around. To do so, I reckon I need two things: 1) a cross-platform wiki-on-a-stick (USB) setup (Mac and Linux and, I guess, Windows) 2) a method to synchronize changes from my internal wiki to the one I carry with me and vice-versa.
The first part is probably pretty simple and just requires a bit of legwork to track down all the proper binaries and a bit of scripting to start and stop the various servers. However, the second part is a bit daunting and I'm wondering if anyone has yet taken this on? There's always the manual way of dumping the source DB, wiping the target and reloading it, but does anyone have alternative suggestions?
Micah
Micah Gideon Modell wrote:
I'd like to take my local wiki (1.12) and bring it places to show it around. To do so, I reckon I need two things:
- a cross-platform wiki-on-a-stick (USB) setup (Mac and Linux and, I
guess, Windows) 2) a method to synchronize changes from my internal wiki to the one I carry with me and vice-versa.
The first part is probably pretty simple and just requires a bit of legwork to track down all the proper binaries and a bit of scripting to start and stop the various servers. However, the second part is a bit daunting and I'm wondering if anyone has yet taken this on? There's always the manual way of dumping the source DB, wiping the target and reloading it, but does anyone have alternative suggestions?
Micah
1) Take a lok at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Wiki_on_a_stick 2) If there's only one main server at each moment, you could copy *all* database files from the latest to the older one. Or have the oldest act as a slave. If you want to modify both versions and then merge, i don't think it can be done, as there can be contradictory changes.
Micah - I've had success running MW 1.11 on Windows XP and Vista using XAMPP for Windows -- Apache project integrating MySql, PHP and Apache. See: http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html
The PortableApps.com site (http://portableapps.com/ ) does a nice job of packaging/installing XAMPP. PortableApps also provides putty and other handy tools. Dan
On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 11:49 PM, Micah Gideon Modell Micah_Gideon@mac.com wrote:
I'd like to take my local wiki (1.12) and bring it places to show it around. To do so, I reckon I need two things:
- a cross-platform wiki-on-a-stick (USB) setup (Mac and Linux and, I
guess, Windows) 2) a method to synchronize changes from my internal wiki to the one I carry with me and vice-versa.
The first part is probably pretty simple and just requires a bit of legwork to track down all the proper binaries and a bit of scripting to start and stop the various servers. However, the second part is a bit daunting and I'm wondering if anyone has yet taken this on? There's always the manual way of dumping the source DB, wiping the target and reloading it, but does anyone have alternative suggestions?
Micah
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