Talk:Sysadmin hub

Ideas

 * Hi, I havent searched to deeply but I wish there was a section about how to backup mediawiki. For instance is a database dump adequate for completely restoring the wiki after a server fail?
 * Also, another issue to be covered could be administering individual articles (moving, protecting, etc.), because I cannot find protection instructions anywhere. Jonathon Reinhart
 * There's m:Help:Administration. Titoxd (?!?) 02:27, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

I'm having trouble installinga PHP 5.2 on IIS6. Is there a walk-through step by step on how to set this up in order to follow up with mysql and wiki? Help

Look here for an PHP 5.2 on IIS6 installation. www.php.net/manual/de/install.windows.manual.php


 * Having spent half a day trying to get PHP running under IIS 6 to confirm a bug fix, I can strongly recommend against ever using IIS for any reason. :) Just install Apache... --Brion VIBBER 22:26, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

MS SQL
Will there be a MS-SQL support?


 * Probably not, but if you're willing to develop and support it we could include the files. Most likely it would see the same fate as Oracle support, though; incomplete, unused, unsupported, untested, unmaintained, eventually getting disabled beacuse it doesn't work anymore and then removed entirely. --Brion VIBBER 22:24, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

what administrative chores are required when running a mediawiki?
Mediawiki was recently recommended to me as a stable and full featured wiki. One of the areas of interest I have concerns what kinds of regular actions are needed by sysadmins in running the wiki.

Another has to do with locating utilities so that one can take a series of files and pre-load/populate a wiki with them.

Thanks for any tips you might provide.