[axxs-sysadmin] donations update and lunchtime rant

[Dave Fregon]

On Fri, 2006-11-24 at 16:25 +1100, andy nicholson wrote:
> hey
> 
> We have a mediawiki installed on the engagemedia.org server, under the
> transmission.cc banner. wiki.transmission.cc
> I can get it setup with a new virtual host , using wiki.axxs.org
> this is still serverbeach, but a different box.
> 
> ?

well I'm all for that if the rest of the engagemedia collective agree :)

Dave

> 
> 
> On 11/24/06, Dave Fregon <dave at netaxxs.com.au> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-11-24 at 16:21 +1100, aketus wrote:
> > > I have time tonight to see if I can set up Trac or something like that
> > > following approval (although that deadline might be a little too short
> > > for CompColl) on Xchange if you're lacking the time.
> >
> > Trac is probably overkill tho I love it, and also not as simple as first
> > appears setting up, you need to have subversion repositories, mod_python
> > and custom virtual host containers, .htaccess etc. and an eye on the
> > security coming from implementing that too.
> >
> > I'm sure you could do it, just it's probably overkill as it's more
> > focussed around code and projects docs on code, than what we are after I
> > think.
> >
> > I reckon mediawiki, which is installed on xchange, but not configured, I
> > only had a quick look at how to configure and it was a little confusing
> > what the methodology is in SuSe for sharing the codebase and bringing up
> > a mediawiki 'instance' without hacking the new install point all over
> > the place. time got the better of me, and it's still not done :\
> >
> > I've cc'd the others in CompColl as this crosses 2 borders, compcoll
> > want a mediawiki (yes yes Chris I am slow on that;), and so do we :) I'm
> > just not sure about or familiar with how the SuSe setups best practice
> > for rolling out wiki sites off the central code on the server is ..
> > someone may be able to fill me in? is it meant to install and be run
> > from the install location? how would you do multiple wikis then?
> >
> > a little confused over the approach for multi-site code with suse,
> >
> > Dave
> >
> >
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