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Benjamin Lees wrote:
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Evelyn Yoder wrote:
fyi, I figured it out.... I wanted to lock the database from changes, and used this command in localsettings.php
$wgReadOnly = 'site maintenance';
Unexpectedly, this is the reason for the problem. Nothing in the MediaWiki documentation warns that the database will be unusable. I expected that users could continue to use the site in read-only mode. If anyone has a reason for this, I'd be interested to hear your explanation. To solve the issue, I revoked user editing rights to lock it down. All is well now.
Bug 11533: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11533
Bah! That was a depressing one-line fix that never got applied. :)
Applied now to trunk: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/42796
To fix this on your local copy quickly: * open includes/BagOStuff.php * find the wfReadOnly() call * replace it with "false", changing this:
function _readonly(){ return wfReadOnly(); }
to this:
function _readonly(){ return false; }
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