On Sun, Jul 3, 2022 at 6:57 PM Jeffrey T. Darlington jeff.darlington@gmail.com wrote:
Each time I upgrade, I unzip the archive to a new directory and copy over the images and extensions. So I've been using the "core" version of Vector for a while. That said, commenting out the line with wfLoadSkin('Vector') still generates the following error:
================ PHP Fatal error: Uncaught FatalError: $wgBaseDirectory must not be modified in settings files! Use the MW_INSTALL_PATH environment variable to override the installation root directory. in /var/www/gpf/mediawiki-1.38.2/includes/Setup.php:237 Stack trace: #0 /var/www/gpf/mediawiki-1.38.2/maintenance/doMaintenance.php(96): require_once() #1 /var/www/gpf/mediawiki-1.38.2/maintenance/update.php(264): require_once('/var/www/gpf/me...') #2 {main} thrown in /var/www/gpf/mediawiki-1.38.2/includes/Setup.php on line 237 ================
I'm not modifying $wgBaseDirectory anywhere in my LocalSettings.php, so I don't see why it would be generating this error. (Note that all of the files in the stack trace are MediaWiki internal files.)
One thing I noticed is, we did not have problems with Skins but you did. (We had problems with Extensions).
Our LocalSettings.php has this, which may explain why we had no problems with Skins:
$wgStylePath = "$wgScriptPath/skins"; $wgStyleDirectory = "$IP/skins";
According to the manual at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgStyleDirectory, wgStyleDirectory is set to null in 1.38. This is new behavior for 1.38.
Maybe you need to set $wgStyleDirectory and that will fix the problems with your skins.
(I still can't explain our problem with Extensions. Maybe I need to set $wgExtensionDirectory. The manual says it is null in 1.38.Previously it was set to "$IP/extensions").
Jeff