On 02/08/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
The solution is to add the below to LocalSettings.php on the source wiki: $wgUploadBaseUrl=$wgServer;
This adds the proper scr= attribute to the <img> tag which means that the transcluded article also pulls through the image.
Make sure you also set the following on the local wiki: $wgAllowExternalImages = true; $wgEnableScaryTranscluding = true;
So no $wgSharedUploadXXX configuration or NFS configuration is necessary at all.
Allowing all external images is rather overkill. If you just want images from one other wiki, shareduploads seems like your best bet. Since it's an internal wiki you're talking about, turning on external images is ok, but it isn't generally a good idea on publicly editable wikis.
But in order to use shareduploads I have to create a NFS connection to the public (remote) wiki, that's at least the suggestion from previous comments on this thread. And NFS seems overkill if all I want is to transclude articles.
In my case, I will actually work on getting NFS to work anyway, because I think there is a value add in enabling this feature between the two wikis. but it's not a necessity and if it is going to be too much of a hassle, I will leave it.