Sechan, Gabe wrote:
I'm trying to install mediawiki, but the system we use to deploy code has it on a read only file system. I can't just chmod the config directory. Is there another way to configure it? It seems like I'd just need to generate 1 or 2 files, and run some sql commands.
You can make a LocalSettings.php manually. You can do a local installation for a sample, or just rip the text out of config/index.php.
The SQL table setup is in maintenance/tables.sql (or maintenance/mysql5/tables.sql if you are on MySQL 5 and dare to try the experimental support)
If you have a _completely_ readonly filesystem you may have some issues though; a writable temp dir for PHP sessions (see php.ini), temp files for automatic merging with diff3, and of course file uploads if you use that.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)