Hi folks,
does anyone have experiences with integrating a MediaWiki installation into Small Business Server 2008 environment? The task is to install a wiki and authenticate logged-in users automatically. Preferably with real name instead of username. Is there a manual for this somewhere? I would like a company install for handbooks and howtos, but I have to persuade our sysop.
Hi Bináris,
The following manual seems to be the most actively maintained guide for getting MediaWiki installed on Windows:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Running_MediaWiki_on_Windows
If you run into any problems, I'd suggest adding them to the manual along with any resolutions you or others come up with. Good luck!
Dan
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 8:13 PM, Bináris wikiposta@gmail.com wrote:
Hi folks,
does anyone have experiences with integrating a MediaWiki installation into Small Business Server 2008 environment? The task is to install a wiki and authenticate logged-in users automatically. Preferably with real name instead of username. Is there a manual for this somewhere? I would like a company install for handbooks and howtos, but I have to persuade our sysop.
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From: "Dan Andreescu" dandreescu@wikimedia.org
The following manual seems to be the most actively maintained guide for getting MediaWiki installed on Windows:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Running_MediaWiki_on_Windows
If you run into any problems, I'd suggest adding them to the manual along with any resolutions you or others come up with. Good luck!
I'm not sure he actually wants to run it on Windows.
He may just need SSO with Active Directory.
https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=mediawiki+active+directory
Cheers, -- jra
Thank you, guys!
The problem is that I am not expert with SBS and I am not a sysop and the sysop doesn't know MediaWiki at all. But I will try to persuade him.
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 6:29 PM, Jay Ashworth jra@baylink.com wrote:
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Andreescu" dandreescu@wikimedia.org
The following manual seems to be the most actively maintained guide for getting MediaWiki installed on Windows:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Running_MediaWiki_on_Windows
If you run into any problems, I'd suggest adding them to the manual along with any resolutions you or others come up with. Good luck!
I'm not sure he actually wants to run it on Windows.
He may just need SSO with Active Directory.
https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=mediawiki+active+directory
If that's the case, the LDAP extension works for that:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LDAP_Authentication
- Ryan
Hi,
We're using this at another organization. But the servers are Debian-based. But is cool to have the same password on nearly everything. If you need it, I maybe could extract you the relevant information from this config.
Try to get your sysadmin to let you operate on a VM possibly with Linux, just as a test. Then nothing influences the original installation and you're independent.
Marco
On 02/02/2013 03:42 PM, Ryan Lane wrote:
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 6:29 PM, Jay Ashworthjra@baylink.com wrote:
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Andreescu"dandreescu@wikimedia.org
The following manual seems to be the most actively maintained guide for getting MediaWiki installed on Windows:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Running_MediaWiki_on_Windows
If you run into any problems, I'd suggest adding them to the manual along with any resolutions you or others come up with. Good luck!
I'm not sure he actually wants to run it on Windows.
He may just need SSO with Active Directory.
https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=mediawiki+active+directoryIf that's the case, the LDAP extension works for that:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LDAP_Authentication
- Ryan
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Failed. Our sysop is like a stone. The main argument is that we have a Microsoft environment and "no need of a new development" . I was advised to use Sharepoint wiki instead which is a fade mockery of MediaWiki. I give it up. :-(((
2013/2/2 Marco Fleckinger marco.fleckinger@wikipedia.at
Hi,
We're using this at another organization. But the servers are Debian-based. But is cool to have the same password on nearly everything. If you need it, I maybe could extract you the relevant information from this config.
Try to get your sysadmin to let you operate on a VM possibly with Linux, just as a test. Then nothing influences the original installation and you're independent.
Marco
On 02/02/2013 03:42 PM, Ryan Lane wrote:
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 6:29 PM, Jay Ashworthjra@baylink.com wrote:
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Andreescu"<dandreescu@**wikimedia.orgdandreescu@wikimedia.org
The following manual seems to be the most actively maintained guide
for getting MediaWiki installed on Windows:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/**Manual:Running_MediaWiki_on_**Windowshttp://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Running_MediaWiki_on_Windows
If you run into any problems, I'd suggest adding them to the manual along with any resolutions you or others come up with. Good luck!
I'm not sure he actually wants to run it on Windows.
He may just need SSO with Active Directory.
https://encrypted.google.com/**search?q=mediawiki+active+**directory<https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=mediawiki+active+directory>If that's the case, the LDAP extension works for that:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/**Extension:LDAP_Authenticationhttp://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LDAP_Authentication
- Ryan
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On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 6:03 AM, Bináris wikiposta@gmail.com wrote:
Failed. Our sysop is like a stone. The main argument is that we have a Microsoft environment and "no need of a new development" . I was advised to use Sharepoint wiki instead which is a fade mockery of MediaWiki. I give it up. :-(((
Sharepoint? You have my deepest condolences.
-Chad
On 02/05/2013 12:03 PM, Bináris wrote:
Failed. Our sysop is like a stone. The main argument is that we have a Microsoft environment and "no need of a new development" . I was advised to use Sharepoint wiki instead which is a fade mockery of MediaWiki. I give it up. :-(((
The farmer doesn't want to eat anything he doesn't know. I don't know this sentence's popularity in Hungary (AFAIK?), but in German it's quite famous.
Sorry about that.
You may annoy him a little bit. :=D
Therefore you will need user credentials. BTW, is it already activated? Does your company even want to use it? If you already have some wiki-stuff, you may need to convert this. People will need to be introduced into this.
Just be some kind of creative! :-)
Marco
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 7:06 AM, Marco Fleckinger marco.fleckinger@wikipedia.at wrote:
The farmer doesn't want to eat anything he doesn't know. I don't know this sentence's popularity in Hungary (AFAIK?), but in German it's quite famous.
I think the rough equivalent in English is "nobody wants to see how a sausage is made." :)
-Chad
Στις 05-02-2013, ημέρα Τρι, και ώρα 07:21 -0500, ο/η Chad έγραψε:
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 7:06 AM, Marco Fleckinger marco.fleckinger@wikipedia.at wrote:
The farmer doesn't want to eat anything he doesn't know. I don't know this sentence's popularity in Hungary (AFAIK?), but in German it's quite famous.
I think the rough equivalent in English is "nobody wants to see how a sausage is made." :)
That's exactly the opposite meaning... I think you want "better the devil we know than the devil we don't".
Ariel
Devils and Sausages aside, I think sysadmins have a hard job that probably shouldn't be made harder if possible:
Binaris, if you have access to a machine, you can set up a Bitnami MediaWiki installation. It's as simple as downloading the executable and running it. Bitnami is an open source project that bundles popular open source software and takes the headaches out of configuring, etc. Here's the MediaWiki install:
http://bitnami.org/stack/mediawiki
Good luck.
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 7:45 AM, Ariel T. Glenn ariel@wikimedia.org wrote:
Στις 05-02-2013, ημέρα Τρι, και ώρα 07:21 -0500, ο/η Chad έγραψε:
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 7:06 AM, Marco Fleckinger marco.fleckinger@wikipedia.at wrote:
The farmer doesn't want to eat anything he doesn't know. I don't know
this
sentence's popularity in Hungary (AFAIK?), but in German it's quite
famous.
I think the rough equivalent in English is "nobody wants to see how a sausage is made." :)
That's exactly the opposite meaning... I think you want "better the devil we know than the devil we don't".
Ariel
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Thank you, guys, I got more answer since I have told my disaster than previously. :-)
2013/2/5 Marco Fleckinger marco.fleckinger@wikipedia.at
Therefore you will need user credentials. BTW, is it already activated? Does your company even want to use it? If you already have some wiki-stuff, you may need to convert this. People will need to be introduced into this.
I tried to google what this is but I couldn't get a good overview. Can you tell me in one sentence, what this is for? I am not sure my company (i.e. our sysop) wants to use anything new. Together with MediaWIki my other request to have PostgreSQL updated from 8.1 to 9.x has been rejected, too. :-( (Yes, Hungary, you know well.)
2013/2/5 Dan Andreescu dandreescu@wikimedia.org
Binaris, if you have access to a machine, you can set up a Bitnami MediaWiki installation.
Yes, the sysop dislikes the idea of open source in this MS environment. I have full access to my own machine where I am allowed to play on my own, and I already have a XAMPP MW installation on it. That's no problem, I wrote this article for the community Hungarian Wikipedia on installing MW with XAMPP: http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Wikitelep%C3%ADt%C3%A9s_a_saj%C3... The only problem is that this is a workstation, and my colleagues won't reach my wiki. I thought of an outer installation, but as I want to share non-public know-how, it should be a private wiki and users would have to login each time which is not a popular idea. So I write Word documents at the moment.
On 02/05/2013 04:02 PM, Dan Andreescu wrote:
:D
Binaris, if you have access to a machine, you can set up a Bitnami MediaWiki installation. It's as simple as downloading the executable and running it. Bitnami is an open source project that bundles popular open source software and takes the headaches out of configuring, etc. Here's the MediaWiki install:
See also (and contribute to - thanks!) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_with_BitNami
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