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* [[Varnish/MediaWiki|Varnish]] - This caching front server is used on Wikimedia sites to significantly reduce the amount of regeneration that dynamic pages need, while preventing outdated caches by having Mediawiki directly tell Varnish what needs to be regenerated. | * [[Varnish/MediaWiki|Varnish]] - This caching front server is used on Wikimedia sites to significantly reduce the amount of regeneration that dynamic pages need, while preventing outdated caches by having Mediawiki directly tell Varnish what needs to be regenerated. | ||
* [[Nginx/MediaWiki|Nginx]] - Nginx also serves as a backend to Varnish on port 127.0.0.1:8080 (internal only), and proxies a PHP-FPM UNIX socket. | * [[Nginx/MediaWiki|Nginx]] - Nginx also serves as a backend to Varnish on port 127.0.0.1:8080 (internal only), and proxies a PHP-FPM UNIX socket. | ||
* [[PHP/FPM/MediaWiki|PHP-FPM]] - Unlike Apache, Nginx isn't able to run PHP natively itself, so we use PHP-FPM here. It's actually a bit faster in general. | |||
* '''[[MediaWiki/Installation]]''' - How we install MediaWiki itself. | * '''[[MediaWiki/Installation]]''' - How we install MediaWiki itself. | ||
* [[PostgreSQL/MediaWiki|PostgreSQL]] - Used as our database for a number of reasons, from stability to compatibility with other apps to support for JSONB values. However, it is clearly not the most popular choice of database for Mediawiki, so we do make some workarounds to support this unique use case. Unfortunately, facts are that Mediawiki was made for MySQL/MariaDB first, so we decided to move over. | * [[PostgreSQL/MediaWiki|PostgreSQL]] - Used as our database for a number of reasons, from stability to compatibility with other apps to support for JSONB values. However, it is clearly not the most popular choice of database for Mediawiki, so we do make some workarounds to support this unique use case. Unfortunately, facts are that Mediawiki was made for MySQL/MariaDB first, so we decided to move over. |