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Linux in Action
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Linux in Action

by David Clinton
September 2018
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
13h 43m
English
Manning Publications
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Chapter 7. Web servers: Building a MediaWiki server

This chapter covers

  • Building dynamic web servers using Apache
  • Managing backend application data with SQL databases
  • Identifying and resolving application package dependencies
  • Installing and configuring a MediaWiki CMS

Got a small company blog to publish, or 30 years of technical and corporate data spanning 100,000 pages? You’ll need some kind of content management system (CMS). In case you’re wondering, a CMS is an application designed as a framework for the creation and administration of digital content. Popular CMS applications you might have encountered include WordPress and Joomla.

A wiki can be a particularly effective way to manage large communities of contributors. It’s a kind of ...

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