On Oct 25, 2004, at 1:22 PM, Jens Ropers wrote:
Can I come back to you Real Soon Now on this? (ie. at a SIGNIFICANTLY later date)
Sure, I'll be here. ;)
I've not really got the time at present to delve back into my MediaWiki install and was thinking of getting back to it only when 1.4 is out -- HOWEVER: I too have a MAJOR interest in getting this to run properly and securely on Mac OS X and *BSD (I think my host uses FreeBSD).
For all intents and purposes MediaWiki should run the same under Apache on Linux, FreeBSD, and Mac OS X.
The only exception I can think of is bug 362, which is that if your wiki is set for Latin-1 and uploads are enabled, you can't upload files with non-ASCII filenames (since the filesystem uses Unicode names and speaks UTF-8 to the BSD layer, rather than using raw byte strings that might happen to be interpreted as UTF-8 by applications, or might happen not to be; invalid UTF-8 will be rejected and the file can't be written).
I would though recommend upgrading PHP, as Mac OS X 10.3 comes with 4.3.2 which is a bit out of date.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)