I'm not the most experienced here but I assume $wgReadOnly would require a
TRUE/FALSE argument rather than a text string.
----- Original Message -----
> I want to move my wiki to another server (and
upgrade at the same time
from 1.14 to 1.16.2).
> I simply need to make the old wiki readonly,
while I move, upgrade and
change the redirect URL - so I placed $wgReadOnly =
'Upgrading to
MediaWiki 1.16.2';
> In the localsettings.php file.