Its official – the Lego Wiki box is up. I have been spending the last couple of days entering data for my vessels, working on article formating, creating new ideas… There is much more data to be input and I plan to keep going until the entire universe is in the system . . or the Wiki box dies from hardware failure… or a hacker. No worries, nothing mission critical there.
NOTE TO SELF: make sure to dump the database on a regular basis . . .
After many hours of beating my head aganst hard objects because Ubuntu was being belligerent, I have my Lego Wiki software installed and running. I went with Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty, MediaWiki, and an old PIII 800Mhz box. As soon as I get the interface customized and the site locked down to only me (dont want wackjobs fu**ing with my universe), I will send the wiki public.
Well, it seems that if my hosting provider is willing to do some custom installation for me, then I can probably have a Wiki on their windows server.
What sucks about this entire wiki situation, is that because inanis.net is hosted on a windows box, the blog is a .NET application, and can't be moved to a linux box. I also don't feel like trying to hand convert all the blog entries, so the site will have to stay on windows. This means if I want wiki, I need a seperate domain/ip address/server for it, or somehow get it on the windows server.
Anyways, Take a look here.
I also found that there is a wiki software called OpenWiki that runs natively on Windows servers. Might have to try that out!
I have been contemplating setting up a wiki for my Lego Universe, however, I would need a linux box and a permanent IP address to do so. Don’t know if that’s in the cards, however it is something I will keep in mind and poke at bit by bit over time…