On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 05:23, Jon Bartlett Jon.G.Bartlett@gsk.com wrote:
All,
I want to move my wiki to another server (and upgrade at the same time from 1.14 to 1.16.2). I simply need to make the old wiki readonly, while I move, upgrade and change the redirect URL - so I placed $wgReadOnly = 'Upgrading to MediaWiki 1.16.2'; In the localsettings.php file.
However, it doesn't stop me editing pages (I was hoping it would make the entire wiki read only !)
Any ideas why ?
Probably because you have sufficient privileges to still write to the database, which is still writable. To set a MySQL database to read-only, do:
SET GLOBAL read_only = ON;
Don't forget to do SET GLOBAL read_only = OFF; to make it writable again.
Jon.
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