On 4/25/07, Elizabeth Schwartz betsy.schwartz@gmail.com wrote:

Hi,

I'm wondering if anyone here is running MediaWiki under Solaris 10 or 11 with multiple zones? Seems like it would be great to give user groups their own virtual machine with their own wiki. If anyone here has tried it and has any configuration hints or suggestions it would be most welcome.

(or, ask me in a week or three!)

thanks Betsy (building my first Solaris 11 box, my first zone box and my first MediaWiki box here...)

I had a terrible time with Solaris 10 PHP 5 for a MediaWiki install; the Sunfreeware.com solutions at the time didn't work, and rebuilding broke on very deep dependency trees that Linux solves with Yum and Solaris can't. I never got it fully working (that was redone on a Linux box instead).

That was about 12 months ago; the situation may be far better now.

In terms of zones, the applications (MW, Apache / PHP, MySQL) should be very zoneable. But I haven't done it successfully, because of the PHP issue above. I have done MySQL and Apache in zones before; they work fine.

I'm not sure how necessary it is to zone it; you can run a lot of MW instances on the same box, under the same Apache, against the same MySQL database, if you want to. But if giving people more knobs they can play with and customize themselves is useful, then a Zone will be useful for that.

It also might be very useful for rapid deployments; you can clone a whole Zone rapidly.