I want to run a second instance of MediaWiki on a stand alone server. Does anyone have a guide on how to do this without causing problems for my current MediaWiki instance.
Answer
It’s really easy to deploy literally thousands of instances on the same server. How this is done depends on the kind of server software you are using and how it is configured, which you don’t tell.
Basically, you can either configure additional vhosts like wiki1.example.com or use subdirs like http://example.com/wiki1. Then you have to make sure the databases don’t conflict. For this, you can either create a new database per wiki or use table name prefixes (which you can specifiy in the base config for each instance).
What is best depends on your requirement.
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Source : Link , Question Author : Systems Party , Answer Author : Sven
