Posts filed under 'byteclub'
I recently looked up upgrading medaiwiki on tyler. Unfortunatly the newer versions require php5 which is not easily available on tyler which runs CentOS-3. Perhaps this is a good reason to upgarade tyler.
Not being able to test on tyler, I decided to test the new on mercury. Andrew has already upgraded swinbrain without any problems but the wiki.ict.swin.edu.au site has a few special requirements. So far, I have not been able to get the new version working correctly with rewritten URLs. The new version of mediawiki keep adding in ‘index.php’ where is is not wanted and even when most links work, some important ones (like save) do not.
I am sure I will find a solution to that but back to tyler. One option is to re-install the tyler PC with a new OS like CentOS-4 or CentOS-5. CentOS-4 is what I use on everything else so I know it well and will have a high level of compatability. It also means i can test on tyler and then use what i learn on the main servers. CentOS-5 is newer so might be more exciting and a good place to test the new features. A final possibility is to move the wiki to mercury and host it along side the faculty wikis. This reduces the maintainence requirements and should prevent compatabiliy problems.
I have alrady moved the database to the faculty database server which is now running mysql 5.
Fell free to email me or leave a comment if you have any suggestions.
November 17th, 2007
I am testing the latest update for WordPress. Soon all blogs will be updated. If there is anything you need to do I will post the instructions here.
Update: I have switched everyone over to the new version. Everything ’seems’ OK. When you log in you will be prompted to update your database but it is a 1 step process which should ‘just work’.
September 4th, 2006
As I suspected, the Dashboard attempts to download stuff from external servers. This is failing because it is not using the web proxy. I think out of the box no program should automatically download stuff from other servers. Worst of all, you can’t turn this off. The WP code is a mess!
I have configured the web proxy in the download code so it now works, but long term I still want to configure the dashboard so it is all local.
March 10th, 2006
I have set up a multiuser wiki for the hit3158 teams. It is built on work I did for these blogs but I actually finished it. Each wiki has it’s own table prefix.
I also created an authentication plugin which checks the local unix group database and authenticates via SMB. It has a few small problems but no complaints so far so I assume it is working.
March 10th, 2006
OK, I think you can upload, but how do you view the images?
Once you have uploaded the image, click on it and a menu will come up. ‘Send to editor’ will insert the html into the edit box (editor means the tool, not a person)
March 10th, 2006
I have configured mod_rewrite to work with my multiuser setup. It was quite simple once I figured out that the uri used it the uri of the directory containing the .htaccess file.
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /blog/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/(.*)$ /blog/$1/index.php
</IfModule>
January 1st, 2006
