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On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 04:32, <PetersJV@aol.com> wrote:

>  I've been doing some Wikinvestigation and looked at what I could install
> on my laptop (Windows) to test, and then also with UNIX (as both are set up
> with Apache/PHP/MySQL), coming up with some possibilities--ease of linking
> to external Wikis and all... well, came up a bit short, as in PHP errors,
> header levels and lists not edited the same as in WP and all. At any rate, I
> installed MediaWiki after... let's see... installing fresh PHP, reinstalling
> MySQL (multiple times), finally wiping it out by hand, cleaning the registry
> by hand,...
>

Good.

The catch is, MediaWiki is a resource hog to an unexpected degree.  In
modern days, desktop and laptop systems can outstrip servers in processing
performance.  Be sure to see that it runs reasonably on your server.

If not, let's ask Martin if he has an available desktop system that is
reasonably well visible from the Internet -- most of all, with a static IP
address.  I think he works for a telco, so he might.  Any form of Unix
running on such a system will do; the bottleneck is in hardware performance,
and the trouble is getting hardware performance together with an acceptable
network configuration.

At any rate, MediaWiki looks like the most reasonable choice at this point.
> The downside is that my VPS is a UNIX system, so whatever I did as a local
> test (other than to see what admins see...) isn't applicable, so I'll have
> to see how that goes. Fortunately I don't have MySQL set up for any site, so
> I have some leeway--although I can't affort to screw up my Apache web
> server... don't really feel like dusting off old PCs to install UNIX to
> test... hmm.... did I ever mentioned I installed the first UNIX outside of
> Bell Labs?
>

I believe MediaWiki can be made to run on most of the modern Unixen, both
'true' ones such as Solaris and MacOS X and 'Unix-like systems' such as
GNU/Linux.

-- 
Andres Soolo

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<div class=3D"gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 04:32,  <span dir=3D"ltr"=
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<div><br></div></div>-- <br>Andres Soolo<br>

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