I hadn't tried that, preferring to stay away from cluttering up the system as a whole. However, I was able to discover a work-around. I bypassed the browser install by using the maintenance/install.php script. But that doesn't fix the problem. Still, these symptoms scream "cache" somewhere, and for the life of me, I can't imagine where. In any event, I'll post back here if a proper solution is discovered, if only to help anyone else. Then again, according to Google, I'm the only person on the Internets to have come across these symptoms. -- Andrius On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 9:45 PM, G Rundlett <greg.rundlett(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Well, it's on a FBSD server (which *can* have locate, provided it's updated), but the issue isn't that I'm unable to find the file, but rather that LocalSettings.php doesn't even exist at that point of the installation. The very first time that I point my browser to the installer, it clearly states: MediaWiki 1.28.1 LocalSettings.php not found. Please complete the installation <http://mysite.dev/mw-config/index.php> and download LocalSettings.php. In any event, the work-around got me through the installation. -- Andrius On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 9:54 AM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) < greg(a)freephile.com&gt; wrote:

Yes, it is curious. -- Andrius On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 10:27 PM, Tom &lt;tom(a)hutch4.us&gt; wrote: I was creating a few wikis at that time. So they were all new. One did, but now I can't remember what it was, but I worked through that error. It was a second wiki instance that I came across these symptoms. Yah, that was my first thought too.I cleared the cache, tried a different browser, but still came across the same symptoms. However, I did NOT try incognito. That's a good suggestion. But I agree with you that this 'feels' something caching. I just couldn't figure out what, especially since I tried a second browser. And then there was the other error of: *Fatal error*: Class 'ComposerAutoloaderInit_mediawiki_vendor' not found in */usr/local/www/wiki/vendor/autoload.php* on line *7 But I did run a composer update. I don't think this is related to the LocalSettings [not] found symptom, but there it is. These all are being served by nginx/php-fpm. Do I did neither check for .htaccess or enable rewrite. And according to Google, I seem to be the only person to have every come across this symptom. But, as I mentioned earlier, my work-around was to install it via the maintenance/install.sh script, which I would presume bypassed any browser caching. I'm considering this closed, but it's here for posterity, JUST in case a second person ever comes across this error. Thanks for responding!