Manual talk:Running MediaWiki on Gentoo Linux

mediawiki 1.11 is masked for ~x86
For those who were looking to install 1.11 in gentoo but emerge only shows 1.8.5 you need to accept the testing ~x86 keyword by
 * 1) echo "www-apps/mediawiki ~x86" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords

Possibility of an ebuild for mediawiki

 * This would seem fairly useless to me. A wiki is more like a document than a program; each installation carries a distinct wiki. --Brion VIBBER 21:14, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * That has not been the philosophy of Gentoo Portage thus far, they have lots of crappy little web-apps there which get dropped into your webroot. --Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 15:36, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * If I write it, it will not just get dropped into webroot, it'll be outside of webroot, and have an included config file. I saw some people talking about this problem in gentoo, and I beleive there is going to be some sort of  webapp config toolkit.  If there is not, I'm going to want to do it... If gentoo stops wasting a lot of my time, by automating more stuff... AaronPeterson 06:37, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * There is a toolkit called webapp-config. And it does not just dump the webapp into your webroot, it can dump it in your vhosts and facilitates easy and efficient multi-install management, and other nifty stuff. Please, go for it! It will surely broaden mediawikis userbase. --Dittaeva 16:41, 15 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * It might look like a document to the user, but to the people who run it, it's definately a program -- Shish

I would recommend against an ebuild install of mediawiki. It is very easy to set up. Goatmilk 15:37, 15 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * But an ebuild would make it even easier and with the web-app tool it will facilitate easy multi-install. --Dittaeva 16:25, 15 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Yes, I totally agree. It always helps to provide easier way to do things. --User:kissall
 * Isn't that the -entire- point of portage in the first place - to make installation and dependencies easy, and more importantly, clean? --Someone who'd like the ebuild
 * Gentoo-wiki is great. I installed mediawiki successfully, and would really love to have the categories to the left under navigation as Gentoo-wiki, how would that be done? --Karye
 * I did mine by manually editing templates/xhtml_slim.pt, Its pretty simple.. anyone with some html experience can do it...   What i would actually like to see is the categories.. the real one to be placed on the left hand side much like the languages, I just dont have the time to edit the code that much :) -- Thrasher (Gentoo-Wiki Site Admin)

useless part unpack and some general notes to the howto
the unpack header is pretty well unclear to me. What is the aim of this part? -At least it confused me for a short while. I suggest to remove it since it is not realy needed. If the aim is to show how to install different mediawikis it missed the part please add some some words to make it clear what the unpack part means. (I dont do it since I do notunderstand what that parts is aimed at : Please note. Thanks for the good Howto. It helped me setting all up. legine (26 April 2005)
 * the instalation of php4 on Apache 2 is bugged. Does not find the Configfiles in /etc/apache/conf/moduls.d. The install ebuild drops this in /etc/apache2/conf/moduls.d. The bug is reported as far as I know.
 * some directories change with the Version of Apache 2.1 -> look here: []
 * maybe it should be reworked and all Apache 2 related basics merged into the Apache 2 howto. since that is kept to the development of Apache ...

The Apache PHP4 handler installation isnt done too well: read emerge output, and just add -DPHP4 in the conf.d file.

needs updating
This project looks like it needs to be updated as the latest mediawiki in portage (www-apps/mediawiki-1.5.0_rc4-r1) requires php5 (dev-lang/php) because it requires ceraion use flags on php. In my experience, the current ebuild doesn't require enough of the use flags yet that mediawiki really does need. also, to make the most sense out of webapp-config, you probably need the vhosts flag and to actually set up virtual hosts.