Thread:Project:Support desk/Wikifamily and Shared database setup

Hi,

Version: Mediawiki: 1.22.0 PHP:      5.3.10-1ubuntu3.11 (apache2handler) MySQL:    5.6.13-log

I would like to say if this topic is done to death, I have used your search but I didnt find this exact situation.

I have one wikisite in english and now i would like to add new wiki in germany. Im asking for guidance what route should I take from here. The new installation will be fresh. I have studied this page http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Wiki_family and Im wondering should I choose scenario:2 or scenario:4. I have already done the scenario:4 once without the "poolwiki" and the linking between the sites work. I was just wondering if im making a mistake here what would cause some troubles in the future?

I have then studied CentralAuth for the single sign on / auto login for the both wikis, or should I choose in this case http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Shared_database method? Adding $wgCookieDomain = ".mainwiki.com"; ? The later sounds much easier to setup.

Thank you.