Daniel Friesen wrote:
Eh? Where are you getting your information?
From Mediawiki's excellent documentation.
Michael Daly wrote:
Images: If you have image uploads for each wiki, then you shouldn't symlink the images directories (and subdirs). Among other possible problems, you won't be able to deal with name clashes.
We have the upload path and upload directory configuration variables for precisely those reasons. All you do is configure different paths for different wiki. There is no need to fiddle with symlinks or even multiple installations.
Exactly why I'm saying not to use symlinks for images. If you set up the parameters in LocalSettings.php properly and then symlink the results to a common images directory structure, you'll just bugger the thing up.
You can symlink the maintenance directory if you choose - there was a recent series of posts on this either here or on the msusers.com forum (can't remember).
There is no need to duplicate maintenance directories. We have had the --conf= and --aconf= parameters for ages, [...] files..
I couldn't remember the details and there are recent posts on this that I'm pointing him to. msusers.com has been down for a couple of days so I couldn't verify and provide a link.
Mike