[pmwiki-users] Farm Testing -- reflect a field across the farm

[Patrick Ogay]

Some questions:

 >1. Is it possible to to do a full installation of PMWiki in another 
directory and "play with it" while in another directory >another 
complete installation is also running, will there be any conflict when 
users start access both wikis at the same?

In a wikifarm, you use *one* Installation, which might be configured 
globally (farm) or locally (field).

consider a structure like this
pm/
  pmwiki-beta-26
     local
        farmconfig.php   (global definitions for all wikis)
        config.php  (lokal to pmwikibeta-26)
     main installation...
-----------------
  otherwik1
     pmwiki (include of pmwiki mail module)
     local
        config.php
     wiki.d
   otherwiki2
      pmwiki (include of pmwiki mail module)
      wiki.d  (Content)

The real good thing is, any new wiki is absolutly independent of the 
main installation and doesn't interfere.
In config.php you can config a wiki locally. With  $farmD/...you can 
access addons installed in Main Installation defined in farmconfig.php.
Evrything which is installed (in the main Wiki)  in farmconfig.php is 
active for all wikis.

So the question remains, what has to be defined globally and what local 
(passwords, features..)
May be you need a feature globally. But for testing you can implement it 
locally and then move to the Main Installation and make avalable through 
farmconfig.php.

The handling oft a wikifarm is easier than I thought and it's very 
practical.

I hope this helps a bit
regards
Patrick Ogay