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Micah_Gideon at mac

May 3, 2008, 8:49 PM

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wiki on a stick

I'd like to take my local wiki (1.12) and bring it places to show it
around. To do so, I reckon I need two things:
1) a cross-platform wiki-on-a-stick (USB) setup (Mac and Linux and, I
guess, Windows)
2) a method to synchronize changes from my internal wiki to the one I
carry with me and vice-versa.

The first part is probably pretty simple and just requires a bit of
legwork to track down all the proper binaries and a bit of scripting
to start and stop the various servers. However, the second part is a
bit daunting and I'm wondering if anyone has yet taken this on?
There's always the manual way of dumping the source DB, wiping the
target and reloading it, but does anyone have alternative suggestions?

Micah
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Platonides at gmail

May 4, 2008, 1:01 PM

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Re: wiki on a stick [In reply to]

Micah Gideon Modell wrote:
> I'd like to take my local wiki (1.12) and bring it places to show it
> around. To do so, I reckon I need two things:
> 1) a cross-platform wiki-on-a-stick (USB) setup (Mac and Linux and, I
> guess, Windows)
> 2) a method to synchronize changes from my internal wiki to the one I
> carry with me and vice-versa.
>
> The first part is probably pretty simple and just requires a bit of
> legwork to track down all the proper binaries and a bit of scripting
> to start and stop the various servers. However, the second part is a
> bit daunting and I'm wondering if anyone has yet taken this on?
> There's always the manual way of dumping the source DB, wiping the
> target and reloading it, but does anyone have alternative suggestions?
>
> Micah

1) Take a lok at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Wiki_on_a_stick
2) If there's only one main server at each moment, you could copy *all*
database files from the latest to the older one. Or have the oldest act
as a slave. If you want to modify both versions and then merge, i don't
think it can be done, as there can be contradictory changes.


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geoobject at gmail

May 5, 2008, 8:04 AM

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Re: wiki on a stick [In reply to]

Micah - I've had success running MW 1.11 on Windows XP and Vista using
XAMPP for Windows -- Apache project integrating MySql, PHP and Apache.
See: http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html

The PortableApps.com site (http://portableapps.com/ ) does a nice job
of packaging/installing XAMPP. PortableApps also provides putty and
other handy tools. Dan


On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 11:49 PM, Micah Gideon Modell
<Micah_Gideon[at]mac.com> wrote:
> I'd like to take my local wiki (1.12) and bring it places to show it
> around. To do so, I reckon I need two things:
> 1) a cross-platform wiki-on-a-stick (USB) setup (Mac and Linux and, I
> guess, Windows)
> 2) a method to synchronize changes from my internal wiki to the one I
> carry with me and vice-versa.
>
> The first part is probably pretty simple and just requires a bit of
> legwork to track down all the proper binaries and a bit of scripting
> to start and stop the various servers. However, the second part is a
> bit daunting and I'm wondering if anyone has yet taken this on?
> There's always the manual way of dumping the source DB, wiping the
> target and reloading it, but does anyone have alternative suggestions?
>
> Micah
> --
> http://www.csh.rit.edu/~micah
> http://www.LiveJournal.com/users/micah_gideon
> Learning is fun more when you don't know you're doing it.
>
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onekopaka at gmail

Jun 14, 2008, 10:58 AM

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Re: Wiki on a Stick [In reply to]

The module loaded should be fine.

anyways, if phpMyAdmin is working, but MediaWiki not, something is
seriously wrong.

On Jun 14, 2008, at 10:50 AM, Sandy Rozhon wrote:

> Well, I know the drive letter will change because I'm testing this on
> my desktop, but intend for it to be used eventually on my laptop. I
> don't believe I'm defining the drive anywhere as far as i know.
>
> Also, there is no file called php.dll in the php5 folder. Since some
> of the other php files seem to load correctly (ie. phpmyadmin or the
> wow page), it seems odd that it is only mediawiki that doesn't
> function properly. I can't even get into the configuration section.
>
> Any further suggestions?
>
> Sandy
>
> On 14 Jun 2008 at 10:35, Darren VanBuren wrote:
>
>> The root meaning the I:/ directory.
>>
>> anyways, using an absolute path for a removable drive is risky on
>> windows. the drive letter could change, making everything break.
>>
>> Check that the drive letter is most certainly I. That's VERY
>> important.
>
>
> On Jun 14, 2008, at 10:31 AM, Sandy Rozhon wrote:
>>
>>> On 14 Jun 2008 at 9:53, Darren VanBuren wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am assuming something is wrong with the Apache config. Check in
>>>> wosportable/apache2/conf/httpd.conf (just look for httpd.conf
>>>> somewhere) for a line like
>>>>
>>>> LoadModule php5_module ../php5/php.dll
>>>>
>>>> If there is no line that loads a .dll for PHP, then most definitely
>>>> PHP isn't loaded.
>>>
>>> This is what I found:
>>>
>>> LoadModule php5_module "I:/wosportable/php5/php5apache2.dll"
>>> PHPIniDir "I:/wosportable/php5"
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Also, is the 'wosportable' directory in the root of the flashdrive?
>>>
>>> I'm not sure what the root would be? I assume it is. If I look in
>>> Windows Explorer at the USB stick drive, I see:
>>>
>>> (I:)
>>> System
>>> Documents
>>> wosportable
>>>
>>>>
>>>> The restriction on file sizes is in php.ini which should be in /
>>>> wosportable/php5.
>>>>
>>>> You need to change post_max_size and upload_max_filesize.
>>>>
>>>> Note: post_max_size MUST be GREATER THAN upload_max_filesize.
>>>
>>> Thanks I'll try those changes.
>>>
>>> Sandy
>>>
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>>
>> Darren VanBuren
>> onekopaka[at]gmail.com
>> ----------------------------------------------
>> Administrator of Onekopakaspace
>>
>> Trunk MediaWiki install:
>> http://oks.verymad.net/~onekopaka/mwtrunk/
>>
>>
>
>

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