Last modified: 2010-05-15 15:26:45 UTC
I use Wikimedia on my laptop for notekeeping, and of course, it's not always online. When I, for example, edit a page offline, a long time passes after pressing "submit". I suppose it's because it tries to connect to Wikimedia or something like that. Reproduction: - Disconnect the machine you are running Wikimedia on from the internet - Edit a page, press submit - Experience a loading time on approx. ½ minute
I assume that by Wikimedia, you refer to MediaWiki, which is the software. The software ought not to be connecting to the Internet in order to do anything, provided that: a) Your web server is on the local machine b) Your mySQL server is on the local machine c) Everything is configured properly Search Meta (http://meta.wikimedia.org) for "Wiki on a stick" which provides useful information on running a small installation of MediaWiki locally.
The link to the precise article I was referring to is http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_on_a_stick. Note that the article discusses Windows, although the same principles for configuring Apache, mySQL and PHP will also work under other operating systems supported by those three tools, so this should be a help.
$wgEnableSorbs was on by default in some older versions (1.4 until recently, not 1.5) which would cause each edit request to be slowed down to whatever the DNS request timeout was, make sure $wgEnableSorbs is set to false in your LocalSettings
The reporter closed the bug so I'm presuming the issue got fixed, what was the problem?
#4, well, #3 solved my problem.
