Hi thanks Haim, That was what I thought too. But I don't know the absolute pathnames. GoDaddy had this to say:

Upon review of your account it appears that you do not have a dedicated IP address for your site; therefore you will most likely not want to use the IP address, but instead reference the full URL http://dummipedia.com/commonmw140.

If you require an IP address and cannot use a URL, a dedicated IP address can be added to your hosting account. To add a dedicated IP to your shared hosting account:

1. Purchase a Dedicated IP credit from our website. 2. Log in to your Account Managerhttp://mya.godaddy.com/default.aspx?prog_id=GoDaddy . 3. In the My Products section, select *Hosting*. 4. Click the applicable hosting account. 5. In the Hosting Account Details section on the right, click *Apply Dedicated IP Address*.

PM Poon

On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 1:37 AM, Haim (Howard) Roman roman@jct.ac.il wrote:

I've never used GoDaddy, but from your message it sounds like you have a shell account where you can get to all the directories of your different sites. Or at least you know what their absolute pathnames are.

Since the LocalSettings.php files are just PHP code, how about just using the PHP include command to include the common file?

Haim (Howard) Roman
Computer Center, Jerusalem College of Technology
Phone: 052-8-592-599 (6022 from within Machon Lev)


On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 16:37, Ekompute .info <ekompute@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi, I have been scouting the internet for how to have a common set of
> Mediawiki files (in one common folder) for all my wikis.
>
> Because of the way GoDaddy creates the IP address for each wiki, I
believe I
> have to have the specific LocalSettings.php file inside each individual
> subfolder (unlike some examples that are available in the internet). I
don't
> know whether my problem is more than linking the subfolder to the common
> folder (containing the Mediawiki files).
>
> Anyone knows if there is a writeup somewhere which I may have missed? I
have
> written to GoDaddy but apparently, well, they ask me to upgrade to
dedicated
> computer or something like that.
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Hi, has it to be anyone of one of these? http://dummipedia.com/wikione/ http://dummipedia.com/wikitwo/ http://dummipedia.com/wikithree/ ?

I think I am really lost. What GoDaddy provides is http://health.dummipedia.org and http://kesihatan.jbdirectory.com ( jbdirectory.com is my url for Malay language).

I realize that the folder that occupies the most space is the Image folder, so I tried to share the two. Since the two abovementioned websites are a translation of one another, I upload all images into the "health" image subfolder and then try to access it from the Kesihatan website by adding this line in the LocalSettings.php of the "kesihatan folder" but it failed:

$wgUploadDirectory = "http://dummipedia.com/health/images";

PM Poon

On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 6:10 AM, Platonides Platonides@gmail.com wrote:

Ekompute .info wrote:

...

Hi thanks Haim, That was what I thought too. But I don't know the

absolute

...

pathnames. GoDaddy had this to say:

Upon review of your account it appears that you do not have a dedicated

IP

...

address for your site; therefore you will most likely not want to use the

IP

...

address, but instead reference the full URL http://dummipedia.com/commonmw140.

(...)

...

PM Poon

The answer they are giving you is not related to the question. You don't need a dedicated ip for having several wikis using common files.

What naming will you use?

http://dummipedia.com/wikione/ http://dummipedia.com/wikitwo/ http://dummipedia.com/wikithree/ ?

PS: Update to mediawiki 1.15.1

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On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Platonides Platonides@gmail.com wrote:

Ekompute .info wrote:

...

Hi, has it to be anyone of one of these? http://dummipedia.com/wikione/ http://dummipedia.com/wikitwo/ http://dummipedia.com/wikithree/ ?

I think I am really lost. What GoDaddy provides is http://health.dummipedia.org and http://kesihatan.jbdirectory.com ( jbdirectory.com is my url for Malay language).

It doesn't matter which url layout you provide. I just wanted to know which one did you use.

...

I realize that the folder that occupies the most space is the Image folder, so I tried to share the two. Since the two abovementioned websites are a translation of one another, I upload all images into the "health" image subfolder and then try to access it from the Kesihatan website by adding this line in the LocalSettings.php of the "kesihatan folder" but it failed:

$wgUploadDirectory = "http://dummipedia.com/health/images";

PM Poon

That won't work. You would use a ForeignAPIRepo to share the uploads from one into the other. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgForeignFileRepos For pointing both wikis to the same folder to work, you would need to share ($wgSharedDB) the image tables (image, oldimage, filearchive), as well as the users (user, user_properties).

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You can use ForeignDBRepo like we do at Commons. No need to muck about with $wgSharedDB.

-Chad