On 04/04/2013 10:37 AM, Dmitrii Kouznetsov wrote:
The tarball has some bundled extensions that I don't think come when you
use the second link. See the extensions directory.
The place to put these files is difficult to guess.
No simple algorithm to choose this place is presented.
The descriptions at
mediawiki.org cited suggest several screens of
speculations about, but it is difficult to apply them practically.
I'm not entirely sure what you mean here.
You've mentioned before that you're running MAMP on OS X, I think. I'm
not sure where its webroot is.
The simple recommendation should be placed at the
top,
indicating, where should the beginner put the files in
order to get workable (and preferably, robust and stable) wiki-site.
That would be ideal, yes. I'm not sure how applicable that is given the
variety of platforms MediaWiki runs on. For example, on many Linux
platforms /var/www/wiki or ~/public_html/wiki would be a good location.
I don't think either of those locations would work for Windows or most
OS X users.
Also, consider to specify the requirements mentioned
at file INSTALL at
the preamble of the articles in Mediawiki.
You could provide some tests, how the beginner can guess, does he/she
have the PHP and/or MySQL or not.
The test should not force the user to learn PHP and MySQL
in order to understand, do they run well or not.
Your perspective on all this is fascinating to me. I haven't really
considered that someone without a little basic PHP/MySQL knowledge would
try to install MediaWiki.
I really appreciate all the insight you've given me so far. But I have
to ask, what is your motivation for installing MediaWiki? What are you
trying to accomplish?
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