NEW WiKi FARM: http://www.moscowamerican.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Wiki_family#Wiki_Farm

CONTACT DREAMHOST SUPPORT

https://panel.dreamhost.com/?tree=support.msg

Old LINKS - FEBRUARY 15 2024

creating my wiki farm: http://www.moscowamerican.org/w/mw-config/index.php?page=DBConnect

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Installing_MediaWiki

cPanel - where is it? NOT on Dreamhost

https://help.dreamhost.com/hc/en-us/articles/360020947731-Where-can-I-find-cPanel

https://panel.dreamhost.com << dreamhost alternative - bare bones, terrible, use WinSCP instead. below.

Installing Wikifarm

First

DREAMHOST : Click MANAGE box, under Manage Files

https://panel.dreamhost.com/index.cgi?tree=domain.dashboard#/site/moscowamerican.org/domain

DreamHost File Manager: https://files.dreamhost.com/#/c/64.90.48.194/dh_62nwvp/eyJ0Ijoic2Z0cCIsImMiOnsidiI6MCwicCI6IkxhdCFLeFhYIiwicyI6MCwibSI6IlBhc3N3b3JkIn19

Install the first wiki as normal. For details, see Manual:Installation guide.

Dreamhost no longer offers one-click install for Mediawiki

SFTP Users - online - no WinSCP needed!

Secure Shell Access (SSH) screen to enable: https://panel.dreamhost.com/index.cgi?tree=users.dashboard#

WinSCP — Connecting to your server

https://help.dreamhost.com/hc/en-us/articles/216656067-WinSCP-Connecting-to-your-server

WinSCP-Uploading-to-your-server

https://help.dreamhost.com/hc/en-us/articles/216655867-WinSCP-Uploading-to-your-server

Creating-a-MySQL-database

https://help.dreamhost.com/hc/en-us/articles/221691727-Creating-a-MySQL-database

Page to create a new database: https://panel.dreamhost.com/index.cgi?tree=advanced.mysql

Change the PHP version of a site

https://help.dreamhost.com/hc/en-us/articles/214895317-Change-the-PHP-version-of-a-site

Changing the PHP version

https://panel.dreamhost.com/?tree=domain.dashboard#/list-view

WinSCP-Creating-sessions

https://help.dreamhost.com/hc/en-us/articles/216656087-WinSCP-Creating-sessions

SSH-overview

https://help.dreamhost.com/hc/en-us/articles/216041267-SSH-overview

SQLite

https://help.dreamhost.com/hc/en-us/articles/217294097-SQLite

Navigate your web browser to /mw-config/index.php. For example, if your wiki is at http://example.org/w/index.php, then navigate to http://example.org/w/mw-config/index.php

( From https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading )

DREAMHOST:

https://help.dreamhost.com/hc/en-us/articles/217292577-MediaWiki-Installing-and-more

Point your browser to mw-config/index.php in your extracted MediaWiki files, which opens the setup screen. For example:

http://example.com/mw-config/index.php

Question: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Xz6107ynx6k0zvjv

Point - Open your browser

Focus the address bar.

Type your domain or IP, followed by the path where MediaWiki is installed (a "/" if it's on the root), followed by "mw-config/index.php". Hit the enter key or the button to navigate to the entered URL

Point your browser to mw-config/index.php in your extracted MediaWiki files, which opens the setup screen. For example: example com/ mw-config/index.php How do I point my browser? Thank you in advance.

http://www.moscowamerican.org/w/mw-config/index.php

Manual:Short_URL

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL

I used w/

http://www.moscowamerican.org/w/mw-config/index.php

Viewing-your-DreamHost-DNS-records

https://help.dreamhost.com/hc/en-us/articles/360055964552-Viewing-your-DreamHost-DNS-records

Viewing your DNS records in the panel

You can review all of the DNS records that are set up for any site you host at DreamHost.

To view your DNS records:

1. Navigate to the Manage Websites page.

2. Open the "DNS" Settings page (tab)

viewing: https://panel.dreamhost.com/index.cgi?tree=domain.dashboard#/site/moscowamerican.org

Connect to database - EASY

MediaWiki 1.41.0 installation

http://www.moscowamerican.org/w/mw-config/index.php?page=DBConnect

Just follow installation instructions....

~~MediaWiki supports the following database systems:~~

MariaDB is the primary target for MediaWiki and is best supported. MediaWiki also works with MySQL and Percona Server, which are MariaDB compatible. (How to compile PHP with MySQL support) ??? TO USE - YOU MUST HAVE A VIRTUAL PRIVATE SERVER ON DREAMHOST!
Connect to a database via SSH

https://help.dreamhost.com/hc/en-us/articles/214882998-Connect-to-a-database-via-SSH (list of information NOT what I need)
Connecting from a shell account
Log into your MySQL database using your database credentials. View the Finding your database credentials article for instructions. You can also find these in the panel under MySQL Databases. CLICK BOX
MySQL-overview
https://help.dreamhost.com/hc/en-us/articles/215099117-MySQL-overview

You can make changes to your MySQL databases on the MySQL Databases link. goes back to above /\

DreamHost also offers SQLite on DreamHost VPS and Dedicated Servers.
DreamHost also offers SQLite on DreamHost VPS and Dedicated Servers.

https://help.dreamhost.com/hc/en-us/articles/217294097-SQLite
IMPORTANT download SQLITE

https://sqlite.org/quickstart.html
Downloading sqlite

Precompiled Binaries for Windows

https://www.sqlite.org/download.html
~~Shared MySQL servers, MySQL VPS, DreamPress, and Dedicated servers run MySQL version 8.~~
~~PostgreSQL is a popular open source database system as an alternative to MySQL. (How to compile PHP with PostgreSQL support)~~
SQLite is a lightweight database system that is very well supported. (How to compile PHP with SQLite support, uses PDO)
~~If you do not see the database system you are trying to use listed below, then follow the instructions linked above to enable support.~~
~~https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:SQLite~~
~~https://www.sqlite.org/quickstart.html~~
~~https://www.sqlite.org/cli.html~~
~~https://www.a2hosting.com/kb/developer-corner/sqlite/connect-to-sqlite-from-the-command-line~~

Second - WORK IN PROGRESS

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Wiki_family

Wikifarm.... https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Xz9h32smhpc7nyux
I am a real newb about this, I have no idea how to do this: Enable your web server to share your MediaWiki install with all wikis. For multiple (sub)domains, have your web server accept connections from all the relevant domains. What does this mean? For multiple subdirectories, you could use rewrite rules, aliases, or symlinks. What program is this done with? How? I want to create both....I am not sure what to do first though or how.... Thank you! --- To clarify, when it refers to enabling your web server to share your MediaWiki install with all wikis, it means that you're going to set up your web server (like Apache, Nginx, etc.) in such a way that it can serve multiple wikis from a single MediaWiki installation. In the case of multiple (sub)domains, it means you should configure your web server to accept connections from all the domains you want to use for your different wikis. For example: if you have wiki1.example.com and wiki2.example.com, your server should be set up to accept connections for both. As for multiple subdirectories, it's about making sure that different paths on your domain point to different wikis. For instance: example.com/wiki1 and example.com/wiki2 should lead to two different wikis. This can be done using rewrite rules, aliases, or symlinks, which are all techniques for redirecting requests on your server. Since you're using Apache as your web server (this is the type of server you have with us), you would use the .htaccess file to define rewrite rules. Now, when it comes to the steps, this is totally out of our scope, but a Google search is always a good start, please refer to some info you can use: How to Start a Wiki: https://www.wikihow.com/Start-a-Wiki DokuWiki Farms: https://www.dokuwiki.org/farms And my favorite, tutorials, this is quite old but it would be good to have a general idea of how to start: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aZq0LK250U

OLD

~~This LISTEN call tells the TCP⁄IP address space that the server is ready to begin accepting connections.~~
By specifying the correct IP address for each (sub)domain on the DNS server, each domain will point to the same web server.
For multiple (sub)domains, you can use "listen" on the multiple server names. For multiple subdirectories, you could use: rewrite rules, aliases, or symlinks.
When the server is operational after start up, the means of communication in or/and out (ports, sockets...) are open to receive or send requests to other servers.

~~"Listening" is to wait for a command on an input port and process it. There is general information about servers on Linux, Apache, or others.~~

~~In a farm of wikis servers exchange messages to each other. Of course they know each other the configuration of the network for that.~~