I have a vhost dedicated to the wiki. So, I have wiki.mydomain.com whose only content is the wiki. So the document root, in my case /home/vhosts/wiki/, contains the wiki and only the wiki. So, for example, the config directory was in /home/vhosts/wiki/config/, so moving the Localsettings.php to "parent" directory was moving it to /home/vhosts/wiki/, which is the document root for that virtual host.
Is that what you mean? Why is it not a good idea to put mediawiki in the document root like that?
On 11/29/05, Rob Church robchur@gmail.com wrote:
When you say parent directory, do you mean LocalSettings.php is in the root too? Incidentally, it's never a good idea to install MediaWiki in the root like that.