Manual talk:Running MediaWiki on Gentoo Linux

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)

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