On Friday, Oct 31, 2003, at 00:29 US/Pacific, Pedram Messri wrote:
Yes, same here. I have apache and PHP running on FreeBSD, and I had lots of trouble getting Wikimedia installed using the install.php script that it comes with. I have heard that it may be buggy, so I am waiting maybe for a newer release, or until Brion may reply to this email :)
Well, I never use the install script personally so I can't guarantee anything about it. I would appreciate some details on the error messages though, hopefully it can be resolved.
I posted some manual install instructions on mediawiki-l a couple weeks ago: http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2003-October/000004.html
One of my test boxes is running FreeBSD 5.1, and things generally work. I've got apache 2 installed from ports, and PHP installed from source with some extra options. The only trouble I recall having has been with TeX; texvc itself compiles (ocaml is conveniently in ports/devel) but something fails in the series of things that get called to produce output from the wiki.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)