On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Kevin Lucas <kilucas(a)gotadsl.co.uk> wrote:
1) my installation instructions said to place v1.14.0 in a version- related
directory so it's in /var/www/mediawiki/mediawiki-1.14.0.
Which instructions say that?
http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/tags/REL1_14_0/phase3/INSTALL
says to rename the directory to something else (mediawiki-1.14.0 is
the default directory that would be created when you untar the files);
the installation guide on
MW.org doesn't say anything on the subject.
In any event, you should move everything so that MediaWiki is at
/var/www/mediawiki (or just /var/www/w; see
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL#Recommended_how-to_guide_.28…
). You will need to update your Apache alias, $wgScriptPath (in
LocalSettings.php), and possibly $wgArticlePath when you do this.
2) the update instructions say I might not have an
AdminSettings.php file
but later say I must have one and it's used in the update.php command line.
I don't have one for my v1.14.0 mediawiki so do I need this and if not what
is the command for running update without it please?
You won't have it if you haven't upgraded before; you'll need to
either create it (copy AdminSettings.sample to AdminSettings.php and
then edit it) or just define $wgDBadminuser and $wgDBadminpassword in
LocalSettings.php.