[Mediawiki-l] Multiple wikis using same directory

[Mauro do Carmo]

Thanks Zarrabeitia,

So, if I understand this configuration allows us to use one folder with two different databases according to the url the user enter,
right? My question is: 

1) What is the advantage for this configuration?  
2) What configuration the wikipedia uses for the different address it has?

I am up to lunch my English version of my site, so I was wondering what would be the most appropriate approach. I was thinking in
this:

www.my_site.info    ==> Database      ==>site.info folder
www.en.my_site.info ==> Database_en   ==>em.site.info folder  

Thanks a lot, mauro.
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|-----Original Message-----
|From: mediawiki-l-bounces at Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces at Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Luis
|Zarrabeitia
|Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 9:40 AM
|To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
|Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Multiple wikis using same directory
|
|
|I hope you are not referring to my message "Mediawiki as a CMS." (I mean, what
|I did there was a hack, and though it worked for my (en|es).wikipedia mirror,
|I wouldn't exactly recommend it).
|
|Still, if you are referring to my hack, here it is:
|
|I installed a mediawiki in, for instance,
|/var/www/sites/wiki
|and pointed the en.wikipedia and the es.wikipedia virtualhosts to that folder.
|
|On my localsettings.php,
|
|==============
|if ($_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"]=="es.wikipedia.uh.cu")
|{
|        $db_lang="es";
|}
|if ($_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"]=="en.wikipedia.uh.cu")
|{
|        $db_lang="en";
|}
|
|$wgDBserver         = "10.6.121.29";
|$wgDBname           = "wiki";
|$wgDBuser           = "wikipedia";
|$wgDBpassword       = "wikipedia";
|$wgDBprefix         = $db_lang;
|$wgDBtype           = "mysql";
|$wgDBport           = "5432";
|
|(...)
|$wgLanguageCode = $db_lang;
|================
|
|And that seems to work. (the ifs and the $db_lang variable were added by me).
|There are some problems with the maintenance scripts in this setup (they
|obviously don't define the _SERVER variable so they don't load the
|configuration properly so I have to work around that)
|
|But given my 0 expertise with mediawiki, I'm sure there is a better way to do
|it :D
|
|Cheers,
|
|Zarrabeitia.
|
|On Friday 27 October 2006 05:48, Robert Leverington wrote:
|> Someone on here was talking about how to run multiple wikis using the
|> same wiki directory, I have a vague idea of how this could be done
|> (using a index.php file with exactly the same contents but with a
|> different name). But I don't know how I could set up the local
|> settings file. When the person said about it I think he used an if
|> statement but I don't know how to form one of those which has more
|> than two possibilities.
|>
|> Thanks,
|
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|Luis Zarrabeitia
|Fac. de Matemática y Computación, UH.
|http://profesores.matcom.uh.cu/~kyrie
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