Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki on Google App Engine

2014-04-07 Thread Dan Andreescu
I've done things like port mako templates to Google App Engine. As mentioned by Jeremy Baron, the common problem to porting anything of sufficient complexity is that you're not allowed to write files to the disk. To get mako to work, since it caches compiled templates to disk, I patched it to

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki on Google App Engine

2014-04-07 Thread Jeremy Baron
On Apr 7, 2014 10:36 AM, Dan Andreescu dandree...@wikimedia.org wrote: So you'd probably have to redirect mediawiki to write files somewhere else more permanent. Google Drive seems like a decent place but last time I tried, integrating Drive with App Engine was silly hard. This might have

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki on Google App Engine

2014-04-07 Thread Liangent
I remember I mentioned it once in IRC, and some people don't like it because GAE is proprietary... -Liangent On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 10:44 PM, Jeremy Baron jer...@tuxmachine.com wrote: On Apr 7, 2014 10:36 AM, Dan Andreescu dandree...@wikimedia.org wrote: So you'd probably have to redirect

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki on Google App Engine

2014-04-07 Thread Jeremy Baron
On Apr 7, 2014 11:40 AM, Liangent liang...@gmail.com wrote: I remember I mentioned it once in IRC, and some people don't like it because GAE is proprietary... So is oracle. If someone wants to do the work… ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki on Google App Engine

2014-04-07 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Oh, my use case is simple: I just want to run my own instance of MediaWiki for my personal wiki. I need to move it from my current provider. I thought App Engine would be kinda simple and cheap to run MediaWiki on, but it looks like it has a few rough edges, and I am wondering whether it is worth

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki on Google App Engine

2014-04-07 Thread addshorewiki
If it is a public personal wiki take a look at Orain[1]. Would probably save rather a lot of effort in setup and maintenance! Addshore [1] https://meta.orain.org/wiki/Main_Page On 7 April 2014 22:53, Denny Vrandečić vrande...@gmail.com wrote: Oh, my use case is simple: I just want to run my

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki on Google App Engine

2014-04-05 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Did anyone manage to get MediaWiki running on Google App Engine? I am a bit dense, it seems, and would appreciate a few pointers. Cheers, Denny ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki on Google App Engine

2014-04-05 Thread Scott MacLeod
I'd be interested in working on this. Scott On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Denny Vrandečić vrande...@gmail.com wrote: Did anyone manage to get MediaWiki running on Google App Engine? I am a bit dense, it seems, and would appreciate a few pointers. Cheers, Denny

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki on Google App Engine

2014-04-05 Thread Jeremy Baron
On Apr 5, 2014 4:26 PM, Denny Vrandečić vrande...@gmail.com wrote: Did anyone manage to get MediaWiki running on Google App Engine? I am a bit dense, it seems, and would appreciate a few pointers. Yes, I think the biggest problem was that you can't do file uploads. IIRC I can write more when

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki on Google App Engine

2014-04-05 Thread Rusty Burchfield
On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Denny Vrandečić vrande...@gmail.com wrote: Did anyone manage to get MediaWiki running on Google App Engine? I am a bit dense, it seems, and would appreciate a few pointers. What are your goals for running on App Engine rather than a service like Compute Engine or

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki on Google App Engine

2014-04-05 Thread Tyler Romeo
On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 11:47 PM, Rusty Burchfield gicodewarr...@gmail.comwrote: What are your goals for running on App Engine rather than a service like Compute Engine or EC2? App Engine is a different type of service than EC2. With App Engine you basically don't have to handle your own

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki on Google App Engine

2014-04-05 Thread Rusty Burchfield
On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 8:49 PM, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote: App Engine is a different type of service than EC2. With App Engine you basically don't have to handle your own system administration. Thanks Tyler. Just to clarify, I wasn't asking about the differences between the

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki on Google App Engine

2014-04-05 Thread Daniel Friesen
Never tried, but the topic did interest me enough awhile back to write a detailed tracking bug for it: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55475 ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://danielfriesen.name/] On 2014-04-05, 1:25 PM, Denny Vrandečić wrote: Did anyone manage to