I continue testing the MediaWiki 1.21.0rc1 distribution.
I continue trying to make the ShortURL.
I modified added several lines to /etc/apache2/httpd.conf
and modified the LocalSetting.php
folowing instructions at
http://shorturls.redwerks.org/?fcgi_pass=127.0.0.1%3A9000&source=userda…
but this did not work; the brouser cannot find the short URL.
It seems to me, modification of /etc/apache2/httpd.conf does not affect
anything. I am not sure if this is failure of the MediaWiki 1.21.0rc1 .
In certains sense, it is a fault of the distribution:
It includes many extensions, which seem to me useless, while the
important extensions, namely, ShortURL and MathJax, are not included;
so, one has to learn Apache, PHP and other things, in order to understand
the instructions, how to install these extensions and how to make them work.
I hope, Mark A. Hershberger makes the distribution, that includes at least
Cite,
MathJax,
ShortURL,
Poem
by default. The first three extensions are the most important, but
the fourth extension, "poem", is also useful: it simplifies the
copypast of the C++ codes; so, better to keep it in the future verions.
Now only two of the four extensions I need are included in the tarball.
My preliminary concluson about MediaWiki 1.21.0rc1 :
In the present form of the distribution of Mediawiki, the installing of
the extensions requires long, heavy and dangerous (at least for the
server) work and/or a lot of skills from the downloader.