Hello everybody,
I've been set the task to merge two existing wikis in a wiki-farm in order to consolidate the two separate virtual servers the wikis live on at the moment into one single virtual server.
Now I'm not sure whether this idea is even feasible and if it were, which kind of wiki-family would be the best way to get the two wikis together...
I've had a look at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Wiki_family but I have to admit that I am rather baffled at the different scenarios presented and when I take a look at the discussions-page I get downright frightend. I'm not a complete newbie, but I rather need a newbie-proof easy to understand how-to in order to get a handle on such a project... :-(
So any hints and tips are more than welcome! Kate
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Hi,
do you intend to share some stuff (e.g images) between the wikis? For my wikis it was not the case, thus I set up several wikis in parallel (in different directories) in one virtual server. For me it has also the advantage that updating the wikis to a new MediaWiki version can be done with one wiki first. Thus problems with updating will not affect the other wikis.
Sigbert
On 17.10.2014 09:08, Katharina Wolkwitz wrote:
Hello everybody,
I've been set the task to merge two existing wikis in a wiki-farm in order to consolidate the two separate virtual servers the wikis live on at the moment into one single virtual server.
Now I'm not sure whether this idea is even feasible and if it were, which kind of wiki-family would be the best way to get the two wikis together...
I've had a look at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Wiki_family but I have to admit that I am rather baffled at the different scenarios presented and when I take a look at the discussions-page I get downright frightend. I'm not a complete newbie, but I rather need a newbie-proof easy to understand how-to in order to get a handle on such a project... :-(
So any hints and tips are more than welcome! Kate
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Hi again,
thanks for the quick answer!
I think your proposition is just the solution for my problem too. :-) I was so blinded by the possibility of the wikis sharing the sourcecode that I didn't even think of the chance of a strictly separated installation and its advantages. And when one update is done and documented well the other is just following the to-do-list, especially if the wikis do not differ too much.
I'll take the opportunity to move both wikis to a totally new server though since they live inside a Xampp-environment at the moment and the new server will be Apache, PHP, MySQL etc. from scratch thus making it easier to install vhosts and also securing it for productive use etc.
Kate
Am 17.10.2014 um 09:47 schrieb Sigbert Klinke:
Hi,
do you intend to share some stuff (e.g images) between the wikis? For my wikis it was not the case, thus I set up several wikis in parallel (in different directories) in one virtual server. For me it has also the advantage that updating the wikis to a new MediaWiki version can be done with one wiki first. Thus problems with updating will not affect the other wikis.
Sigbert
On 17.10.2014 09:08, Katharina Wolkwitz wrote:
Hello everybody,
I've been set the task to merge two existing wikis in a wiki-farm in order to consolidate the two separate virtual servers the wikis live on at the moment into one single virtual server.
Now I'm not sure whether this idea is even feasible and if it were, which kind of wiki-family would be the best way to get the two wikis together...
I've had a look at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Wiki_family but I have to admit that I am rather baffled at the different scenarios presented and when I take a look at the discussions-page I get downright frightend. I'm not a complete newbie, but I rather need a newbie-proof easy to understand how-to in order to get a handle on such a project... :-(
So any hints and tips are more than welcome! Kate
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You probably don't need to worry about the farm/family stuff. Just move your second wiki onto the server you're keeping: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Moving_a_wiki
On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 3:08 AM, Katharina Wolkwitz wolkwitz@fh-swf.de wrote:
Hello everybody,
I've been set the task to merge two existing wikis in a wiki-farm in order to consolidate the two separate virtual servers the wikis live on at the moment into one single virtual server.
Now I'm not sure whether this idea is even feasible and if it were, which kind of wiki-family would be the best way to get the two wikis together...
I've had a look at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Wiki_family but I have to admit that I am rather baffled at the different scenarios presented and when I take a look at the discussions-page I get downright frightend. I'm not a complete newbie, but I rather need a newbie-proof easy to understand how-to in order to get a handle on such a project... :-(
So any hints and tips are more than welcome! Kate
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