Topic on Extension talk:Simple Farm/Flow

Hi, that is really great, and I appreciate not only the work you did but also you being just in time for me merging my separate wikis to a farm. I like especially that it does not force one to a special configuration; instead you can use wikis within the same or on different databases, and the same applies to the virtual addresses as you described.

Before I start using it, I have one question left though regarding the shared directory structure. I know how to set up separate /images directories per wiki if needed, and it is nice that I do not even have to think about symlinking /extensions, but the question is about directories like /cache. In former versions of wiki farms (e.g. with symlinks) it was documented that it shall not be shared between wikis. Did that change? I did not see any code related to that topic in your solution, but may have missed it. Do you have any (bad/good) experience with sharing the cache folder?

Hello Surak! I am not 100% sure about caching but there is this "cache" directory in the mw root but it is always empty and it seems to have no functionality. Also, the variable which refers to the cache ( $wgCacheDirectory is disabled by default, and if you want to enable it, just make sure that the path is different for all of your farm members, e.g. by using $wgCacheDirectory = "/cache/{$wgDBname}". About $wgFileCacheDirectory, this depends on $wgUploadDirectory anyhow (which is set by the extension to be {$IP}/images/images_{$wgDBname} by default.

Thanks, Danwe, that makes absolutely sense.