On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 11:00 PM, Steve VanSlyck s.vanslyck@spamcop.net wrote:
I'm not the most experienced here but I assume $wgReadOnly would require a TRUE/FALSE argument rather than a text string.
No it takes a string so it can display the reason.
Did you try to save a page edit whilst read only was activated? Are you running a DBMS other than MySQL?