Questions about MediWiki port

[William H. Magill]

On Aug 1, 2014, at 1:29 AM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:

> On Jul 31, 2014, at 9:18 PM, William H. Magill <magill at mac.com> wrote:
>> 
>> What I was wondering about was the fact that OSX Server includes Apple's installation of Apache, PHP, SQL and ???
> 
> MacPorts does not use any of it. 
> 
> Though if you're running an SQL server provided by OS X server, you could certainly configure e.g. a PHP web app like Mediawiki to use it. MacPorts will not however use that SQL's server's libraries to communicate with that SQL server; it'll instead install its own copies of those libraries.


> I had been running OSX Server's web server successfully, and upon installing Media Wiki (and all of its dependencies) was immediately confronted by:
> ================
> Internal Server Error
. . .
> ===============
> I can't say that the error is "unexpected." 
> Now I just have to figure out what to turn off and what to re-configure.

That situation proved to be "trivial" -- i.e. a simple reboot cleared the error, and restored the functionality of Apple's Web server.
I suspect  that simply stopping and restarting Apple's web server using the Server Manager application would have had the same effect, but I did not try that first.


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William H. Magill                                                            

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