Thanks Adam!
I'd like to hear more about your exact use case. Getting all of the wikis to run out of a single codebase was a major part of the challenge getting things setup. If you want a repo per wiki, that should be a straightforward case of setting up another apache virtualhost, or using a different subdirectory for each wiki. If you want CentralAuth across them, that's pretty trivial too. Controlling all that with puppet, I defer to bd808 on :)
But it sounds like you may have something else in your use case, let me know.
On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 4:09 PM, Adam Wight awight@wikimedia.org wrote:
Bryan and Chris, The multiwiki work is fantastic, a big thank you for pursuing this! I tried to use your new module to provide a vagrant development environment for Fundraising's "payments" wiki [1], and I ran up against a large and very solid-looking wall that I think is worth mentioning. We maintain a special release branch of MediaWiki for payments, with a bit of security hardening. We cannot follow trunk development without carefully reading over the new features, and we need to develop against this target so that we catch version incompatibilities before deployment.
I see that multiwiki encapsulates the various wikis by configuration only, and they all share the main codebase. Do you have multiple checkouts of MediaWiki-core on your roadmap, or are we a fringe case? I'd like to help support our development under vagrant, but this issue is a bit of a blocker. Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks, Adam
[1] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/135326, production is https://payments.wikimedia.org
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 9:55 AM, Bryan Davis bd808@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Arthur Richards arichards@wikimedia.org wrote:
CentralAuth/Multiwiki: Bryan Davis, Chris Steipp, and Reedy spent a lot of time hacking on this, and we now have support for multiwiki/CentralAuth in Vagrant! There is still some cleanup work being done for the role to remove
kludge/hacks/etc
The CentralAuth role and the associated puppet config that allows creation of multiple wikis as Apache virtual hosts on a single MediaWiki-Vagrant virtual machine have been merged! Go forth and debug/extend CentralAuth. :)
I'd love to see additional roles created that use the multwiki::wiki Puppet define to add interesting things for testing/debugging like RTL wikis or other complex features such as WikiData that use a collaboration between multiple wikis in the WMF production cluster. If you're interested in working on something like this and get stuck with the Puppet code needed or find shortcomings in the setup that Chris and I developed I'd be glad to try and help work through the issues.
Bryan
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