Hi there, My MediaWiki site http://myhostname/documentation is working for the documentation of my software product "Mysoft" version 1. In the future, when Mysoft version 2 is available, the http://myhostname/documentation would be for Mysoft version 2, and http://myhostname/Mysoft-v1 would be pointing to old version. In this way, the single MW site would have multiple copies/URLs for different Mysoft versions like below: http://myhostname/documentation -> newest version, http://myhostname/Mysoft-v2 -> for Mysoft version 2, http://myhostname/Mysoft-v1 -> for Mysoft version 1. Is it possible, and how if yes? Any idea would be appreciated, Ross
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If you have access to the shell, you could use these instructions: http://www.steverumberg.com/wiki/index.php?title=WikiHelp_-_Method_Two
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-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Ross Xu Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 4:28 PM To: mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Mediawiki-l] One wiki site has multiple copies/versions
Hi there, My MediaWiki site http://myhostname/documentation is working for the documentation of my software product "Mysoft" version 1. In the future, when Mysoft version 2 is available, the http://myhostname/documentation would be for Mysoft version 2, and http://myhostname/Mysoft-v1 would be pointing to old version. In this way, the single MW site would have multiple copies/URLs for different Mysoft versions like below: http://myhostname/documentation -> newest version, http://myhostname/Mysoft-v2 -> for Mysoft version 2, http://myhostname/Mysoft-v1 -> for Mysoft version 1. Is it possible, and how if yes? Any idea would be appreciated, Ross
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Thank you Daniel. What do you mean the "access to the shell"? Anyway, I got the message of "No valid wiki specified.php" from your link. Could you please provide further information? Again, I'd like to keep different versions of my software documents, and make them all alive (editable) and searchable on the same wiki site. Thanks again, Ross --- On Sat, 11/14/09, Hoyte, Daniel hoyte@chapman.edu wrote:
From: Hoyte, Daniel hoyte@chapman.edu Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] One wiki site has multiple copies/versions To: "MediaWiki announcements and site admin list" mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Received: Saturday, November 14, 2009, 12:35 AM
If you have access to the shell, you could use these instructions: http://www.steverumberg.com/wiki/index.php?title=WikiHelp_-_Method_Two
I just completed a farm of 13 wikis with them.
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You need to be able to get to a command prompt.
You should be able to get to the instructions from the link under Scenario 2 on this page: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Wiki_family#Scenario_2:_Passing_a_Param...
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-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Ross Xu Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 9:10 AM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] One wiki site has multiple copies/versions
Thank you Daniel. What do you mean the "access to the shell"? Anyway, I got the message of "No valid wiki specified.php" from your link. Could you please provide further information? Again, I'd like to keep different versions of my software documents, and make them all alive (editable) and searchable on the same wiki site. Thanks again, Ross --- On Sat, 11/14/09, Hoyte, Daniel hoyte@chapman.edu wrote:
From: Hoyte, Daniel hoyte@chapman.edu Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] One wiki site has multiple copies/versions To: "MediaWiki announcements and site admin list" mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Received: Saturday, November 14, 2009, 12:35 AM
If you have access to the shell, you could use these instructions: http://www.steverumberg.com/wiki/index.php?title=WikiHelp_-_Method_Two
I just completed a farm of 13 wikis with them.
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Ross Xu wrote:
Hi there, My MediaWiki site http://myhostname/documentation is working for the documentation of my software product "Mysoft" version 1. In the future, when Mysoft version 2 is available, the http://myhostname/documentation would be for Mysoft version 2, and http://myhostname/Mysoft-v1 would be pointing to old version.
In this way, the single MW site would have multiple copies/URLs for different Mysoft versions like below: http://myhostname/documentation -> newest version, http://myhostname/Mysoft-v2 -> for Mysoft version 2, http://myhostname/Mysoft-v1 -> for Mysoft version 1.
Is it possible, and how if yes? Any idea would be appreciated, Ross
At [[documentation]] place #REDIRECT [[Mysoft-v1]] to magically send to page Mysoft-v1 when people visit documentation, or {{Mysoft-v1}} to silently place there its content. When version 2 is out, you change the Mysoft-v1 to Mysoft-v2.
No need to create a different wiki for each software version (as Daniel Hoyte suggests), but remember that wikis in the web root are evil.
Thank you, Platonides! I like your ideas, but I couldn't fully understand. Actually, http://myhostname/documentation/ is my MW root. The whole MW is only used for documentation for Mysoft version 1 right now. When Mysoft version 2 is available, I want to make the entire contents of current MW to be a different URL/copy (something like http://myhostname/Mysoft-v1), and keep http://myhostname/documentation%C2%A0as the work space for Mysoft version 2. And so forth. Note, http://myhostname/Mysoft-v1 is not static, which means people can still work on it. I don't want to create multiple MW sites under http://myhostname/. Instead, http://myhostname/documentation/ is the only MW I want to let people work on. Is it still Okay to take advantage of your ideas? Thanks again, Ross
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From: Platonides Platonides@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] One wiki site has multiple copies/versions To: mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Received: Saturday, November 14, 2009, 7:50 AM
At [[documentation]] place #REDIRECT [[Mysoft-v1]] to magically send to page Mysoft-v1 when people visit documentation, or {{Mysoft-v1}} to silently place there its content. When version 2 is out, you change the Mysoft-v1 to Mysoft-v2.
No need to create a different wiki for each software version (as Daniel Hoyte suggests), but remember that wikis in the web root are evil.
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Ross Xu wrote:
Thank you, Platonides! I like your ideas, but I couldn't fully understand.
Actually, http://myhostname/documentation/ is my MW root. The whole MW is only used for documentation for Mysoft version 1 right now. When Mysoft version 2 is available, I want to make the entire contents of current MW to be a different URL/copy (something like http://myhostname/Mysoft-v1), and keep http://myhostname/documentation as the work space for Mysoft version 2. And so forth.
Note, http://myhostname/Mysoft-v1 is not static, which means people can still work on it. I don't want to create multiple MW sites under http://myhostname/. Instead, http://myhostname/documentation/ is the only MW I want to let people work on.
Is it still Okay to take advantage of your ideas? Thanks again, Ross
That's more complicated, since there's only one main namespace per mediawiki install. You could place all pages about Mysoft-v1 in a Mysoft-v1 namespace or as Mysoft-v1 subpage, and do the same with Mysoft-v2. Then use mod_redirect to point documentation/ Mysoft-v1/ and Mysoft-v2/ to the expected place.
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