mediawiki isn't working "out of the box"

Stephen John Smoogen smooge at gmail.com
Fri Mar 6 23:03:13 UTC 2009


On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Michael Stahnke <mastahnke at gmail.com> wrote:
> In a nutshell, here's most of what I did.
>
> WIKINAME=syswiki
> mkdir -p /var/www/wikifarm
> mkdir -p /var/www/wikifarm/$WIKINAME
> cd /var/www/wikifarm/$WIKINAME
> cp -f -pur /var/www/wiki/* .
> ln -s /usr/share/mediawiki/*.php .
> ln -s /usr/share/mediawiki/*.php5 .
> ln -s /usr/share/mediawiki/extensions .
> ln -s /usr/share/mediawiki/includes .
> ln -s /usr/share/mediawiki/skins .
> ln -s /usr/share/mediawiki/languages .
> ln -s /usr/share/mediawiki/locale .
> ln -s /usr/share/mediawiki/serialized .
> ln -s /usr/share/mediawiki/maintenance/ .
> chown -R apache:apache *
> unset WIKINAME


My brain isnt' working does that chown change the permissions of the
linked items so that they are writable by the base process? Wouldn't
it be better to just copy the files then


> There's more to it than that, but that's most of it.  (And stuff I
> don't need to sanitize to send out).
>
> stahnma
>
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