[wplug-internet] Set up some project-related stuff on the server...

[Pat Barron]

At least at the moment, I'm thinking custom-built, and plugged into our 
Apache server.  We have MySQL already on the server (indeed, it is the 
one that runs the wiki), so that's a pretty straightforward choice - I 
suspect the only other choice that would even be on the table would be 
something like sqlite.  Possibly implemented in PHP, possibly something 
even as simple as CGI scripting.

We're trying to rearchitect the current wiki site using WordPress, so 
there might be a possibility of implementing this as a WP plugin (or 
using an existing plugin).  A previous pass at this looked at 
implementing the portal as a MediaWiki plugin so that it could (among 
other things) use the same authentication as the wiki, but I know 
nothing of MediaWiki plugins (nor WP plugins, for that matter...), so 
I'm not sure how easy or hard that would be - plus as we're hoping to 
move more towards a WP site, not sure how worthwhile it is to do much 
MediaWiki development.

I actually looked at ClubData at one point - in one sense, it seems to 
be overkill for what we need; in another sense, it is missing things we 
really do want, like integration with online payment systems (the two 
we're most interested in are Stripe and Coinbase, as we currently have 
the ability to accept payments via those processors, assuming we had 
technical infrastructure capable of doing it...).  It also doesn't seem 
to have any way to integrate with external authentication systems (like 
LDAP [not that we're actually using that right now...], or PAM, or 
anything like that), so it would be Yet Another Username and Password 
that people would need...

I'd actually never heard Admidio before you mentioned it - thanks!  
Looks like most of the docs are not translated into English, though, so 
I'm not sure if it might meet our needs or not.   Google Translate might 
help us here.  ;-)

--Pat.

On 1/14/2014 10:29 PM, George Larson wrote:
> Sounds straightforward enough.  You thinking of a brand-name CMS, some 
> other framework, built from the ground-up?  If built, have you picked 
> a language and database pairing?
>
> Obviously, I don't know anything about this server.  I'm speculating 
> it's the one running the wiki which appears to be Apache2/CentOS.  
> Running MediaWiki so I reckon there's PHP and MySQL, which leaves 
> scads of options.
>
> Please consider that I have done about 30 minutes of research, just 
> now so I'm a bit shy of an expert on these things. XD But it looks to 
> me like ClubData or Admidio could be used with some custom pages made 
> for the user access from the web bits.
> [ http://clubdata2.domes-muc.de/index.php/en/ ]
> [ http://www.admidio.org/ ]
>
>
> Or I'm sure there's something in the WP category that would do the 
> trick and things stitched together with AutomaticREMOTE USER.  Though, 
> it's not the way I would personally go.  WP has a lot of features but 
> it is, IMO, chosen for its ease in situations where it is actually a 
> bit cumbersome.  And installing WP (Joomla!, Drupal) carries an 
> implicit obligation to stay on top of security patches and such 
> because vulnerable installs /will/ be found sooner or later.  Though, 
> with the exposure an LUG gets, that may already be part of this situation.
> [ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AutomaticREMOTE_USER ]
>
> Dunno.  Just some thoughts that are gonna get sent as-is because I've 
> a bit more work I need to do before I can shove off for the eve.   (8

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