Hello, > I am reading these > <http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Drafts/BSD_Install#Attachments> > installation instructions. Is installing Xwiki inside a freebsd jail > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD_jail> the recommended method? I.e. > is it "strongly" recommend or is there not much to gain either way.
Jails are just a form of leightweight VMs or containers (the new buzzword) and I'd recommend using one to "contain" the application even if you do not need it right now. At any time in the future you can e.g. just archive the entire jail, transfer it to a different machine and just boot it ... The problem with the cited document is different: It's completely outdated! Neither is diablo-caffe-freebsd7-amd64-1.6.0_07-b02.tar.bz2 a recommended current JRE nor is Tomcat 6 a recommended version of Tomcat to run a current Xwiki. And the document doesn't even mention ZFS which gives so much more power to the jail architecture. And iocage ... and ... If you are familiar with FreeBSD, I'd recommend setting up a jail on FreeBSD 11 or 10.3, installing Tomcat and MySQL and then trying to follow a generic "how to deploy Xwiki in Tomcat" document. Personally, even though we are running our entire hosting on FreeBSD, set up single application servers on whatever is best supported and requires the least work. And since apt based installation of Xwiki is so much simpler, I run it on Ubuntu. HTH, Patrick
