Scot Hacker wrote:
I recently had to turn PHP safe_mode=on for a shared server, and now a user running MediaWiki is having trouble since his scripts can't write to /tmp.
Try 1.4beta5; the default skin no longer uses the PHPTal template library and does not require storing a compiled template script file.
If you still have problems, it would help to know exactly which files it's trying to work with in /tmp.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)