Yes that's correct. The Ubuntu package isn't officially supported. This is more a historical thing than anything else, as a couple years back one of the packages (I think it was redhat's) decided that moving the skins directory (This was back before RL, so that included all the css and JS) to a non-web accessible directory was a good idea. And most of the other packages were horribly outdated, so all the distro packages got deemed "unsupported".
Now a days the distro packages are a lot better, but still might be a little behind the time in terms of version. If you're installing MediaWiki, my recommendation would be to download the source from mediawiki.org, and only use your package manager to install dependencies like apache, mysql, etc. However, the distro packages are probably fine too.
As for Solaris vs Ubuntu. I'd recommend linux if you have a choice (In particular mediawiki uses some GNU userland utilities if available that would definitely be in linux, such as bash, diff3, timeout. I have no idea if other unixes have all those installed by default). MediaWiki is probably the most well tested on Ubuntu of any OS (as that's what WMF uses), but really its pretty OS agnostic.
--bawolff
On 7/20/14, Christopher Wilson gwsuperfan@gmail.com wrote:
I think that's referring to the package distributed by Ubuntu/Canonical, not support for running the app if you install it via some other method.
-Chris
On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 1:10 PM, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
From https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Running_MediaWiki_on_Ubuntu
"*Warning:* MediaWiki can also be installed using aptitude. The Ubuntu MediaWiki package is unsupported and usually outdated. We do not recommend you use it."
I suppose that could refer only to aptitude and not Ubuntu support as a whole.
Pine
On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 1:04 PM, Michał Łazowik mlazowik@me.com wrote:
Hey,
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2014,
o godz. 21:55:
I have experience with Ubuntu but MediaWiki says that Ubuntu is unsupported.
Where, when, why what? I mean, from where do you have that info?
Which Linux distro would people recommend, and which distro of Linux does WMF use for MediaWiki?
It's quite amusing in the view of what you said: it's… Ubuntu :p [0]
And basically anything that can run some web server (e.g. apache, nginx) with php support should work. I think it would be hard to find a distro that wouldn't work.
Regards, Michał
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