Wiki Family

Principle

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Wiki_family

Example Setup

Directory Layout

Localsettings.php (code)

<?php 
/**
 * MediaWiki wikifamily handling code
 *
 * Taken from Drupal code to tap multisite configuration.
 */
// returns true if $needle is a substring of $haystack
function contains($needle, $haystack)
{
    return strpos($haystack, $needle) !== false;
}

/**
 * Find the appropriate configuration directory for the current request
 */
function findConfiguration($confdir,$domain,$debug) {
  $host=$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'];
  $host=str_replace(".q.",".",$host);
  if ($debug) {
     print ("find Configuration for ".$host." in ".$confdir." for domain ".$domain."<br>");
  }
  if ($host) return $host; else return NULL;
}

/**
 * optionally add the given settings
 */
function optionalRequireSettings($settings) {
  if (file_exists($settings)) {
     require_once($settings);		 
  }
}
# switch on for debuging
$debug=false;
# the main configuration directory in which all wiki farm member sites are configured
$confdir = '/var/www/mediawiki/sites';
# The Prefix to use for local/specialized configuration files
$prefix="BITPlan";
# find the configuration for the current request
$domain="bitplan.com";
$conf=findConfiguration($confdir,$domain,$debug);
#$conf=NULL;
# if we found a configuration then use it
if ($conf) {
  # make sure all farm members use the same .smw.json file
  # https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:$smwgConfigFileDir
  global $smwgConfigFileDir;
  global $wgWikiFarmSite;
  $wgWikiFarmSite=str_replace(".".$domain,"",$conf);
  # uncomment for better debugging
  if ($debug) {
    ini_set('display_errors', '1');
    ini_set('display_startup_errors', '1');
    error_reporting(E_ALL);
    $wgShowExceptionDetails=true;
  }
  $smwgConfigFileDir = $confdir;
  #
  # first use the specific LocalSettings for the site 
  $lsettings="$confdir/$conf/LocalSettings.php";
  if ($debug) {
     print ("Localsettings from ".$lsettings);
  }
  require_once( $lsettings );
  # then use the global settings for the farm 
  # if there are further specific settings for the site  use them
  $gsettings=array("$confdir/{$prefix}Settings.php","$confdir/$conf/{$prefix}Settings.php");
  foreach ($gsettings as $gsetting) {
     if (file_exists($gsetting)) {
        require_once($gsetting);		 
     }
  }
} else {
    $IP = '.';
    require_once( './includes/DefaultSettings.php' ); # used for printing the version
    require_once( './includes/NoLocalSettings.php' );
    die("wikifarm could not find configuration for $wgServer");
}
?>