[Mediawiki-l] Problem with custom skin path

[Daniel Steiner]

I'm on shared server with no console access and it's not possible trough
the web-based file manager.

But anyway, why is $IP not working/available in MonoBook.deps.php
Thanks for help

Daniel Steiner

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Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 00:04:04 -0700
From: Trevor Parscal <tparscal at wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Problem with custom skin path
To: mediawiki-l at lists.wikimedia.org
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  Why not just use symlinks?

- Trevor

On 9/28/10 11:07 PM, Daniel Steiner wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'd like to use a common skin path for two different wikis to share
file
> resources.
>
> Directory structure is as follows:
>
> /DOCUMENT_ROOT/wiki1
>
> /DOCUMENT_ROOT/wiki2
>
> /DOCUMENT_ROOT/Common/skins
>
>
>
> For this, I added to each LocalSettings file:
>
> $wgStyleDirectory ="$IP/../Common/skins"
>
> $wgStylePath ="/Common/skins"
>
>
>
> While testing this, I got the a error like:
>
> "Warning: require_once(/usr/local/...
/Common/includes/SkinTemplate.php)
> [function.require-once
>
<http://foundation-register.org/stf1test/index.php/function.require-once
>> ]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in
> /usr/local/.../Common/skins/MonoBook.deps.php on line 12"
>
>
>
> This is because of SkinTemplate.php is relatively referenced in
> MonoBook.deps.php as "require_once ( dirname ( dirname ( __FILE__ ) )
.
> 'includes/SkinTemplate.php' ", which belongs to normal directory
> structure.
>
>
>
> The strange thing now is, changing the statement in MonoBook.deps.php
to
> "$IP/includes/SkinTemplate.php" didn't work.
>
> It seems, $IP isn't available at this point and the statement results
in
> "require_once (/includes/SkinTemplate.php)" only.
>
>
>
> Could somebody give me a hint what I'm doing wrong,  please?
>
> Or is there a better solution to that plan?
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> Daniel Steiner
>
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