On Wednesday 17 August 2005 23:44, Taylor, Grant wrote: > > It looks like a number of people are offering sites - > > IMHO, a "distributed" wiki (ie: you can edit at any of > > the sites) or a master/mirror setup would be good, as > > that would help prevent problems if site maintainers > > get kidnapped by aliens, sites get slashdotted, etc. > > I think the Wiki, if that route is chosen, should be on the www.lartc.org > domain name. This means that we will have to find and contact the > administrators of that domain / DNS servers. (I'm not official subscribed to this list, but I'm still reading some posts) I know the owner of lartc.org and I mailed him about this problem. I will keep the list updated if he answers me. > As far as the distributed web > site goes I think it is a good idea. To pull off the distributed site we > would need to have the DNS records resolve to multiple boxen across the > net. I have considered a self replicating set up for some of my servers > and at present I'm looking at using Coda or AFS as a replicating / caching > local copies of the remote file system content. I've never dealt with > Wikis other than and end user (and I say that the ones that I've looked at > have been slow) so I don't know what they take to set up. I suspect that > they use a database and thus we would want to set up the Wiki to use a > database that has real time replication between the two (or more) web > servers that the wiki points to. I would be more than happy to help with > such an endeavor. I can not host it at my office (bosses will not let me) > but I can help provide content and / or convert stuff. There are lots of wiki's available. Some use plain text files, some uses mysql, some are written in php, some are written in perl. I prefer the mysql + php way to store the information. Stef _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.ds9a.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lartc
