Rommel Santor's Clog

I came up against a really baffling problem the other day. I was tasked with adding a Wiki for VideoSift. Rather than just dumping MediaWiki onto the primary VideoSift web server, we wanted to keep it self-contained for security and load reasons, so we installed into one of our other back-end servers which was being used as a MySQL Slave and not hosting any web content. To start with I just did a quick, basic install of Apache2 and PHP5 (I would prefer and attempted to use Nginx with PHP5-FPM, but MediaWiki complains about implementation bugs in the packaged versions available to me and I don’t want to recompile from source).

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