On Fri, 6 Mar 2009, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Michael Stahnke
<mastahnke(a)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
I think it was initially packaged this way to allow people to easily run
multiple installs of mediawiki on the same box, but also allow for a
simple "yum update" of them all.
-Mike