It has to do with how we manage code. Basicly, I cannot touch that file system directly, however I can ask a program to cp a file onto it (more or less. Its more complicated than that). If I have a pre-generated file, I can have it copied to that filesystem. I cannot just create a new file on it though. Although changing the config file to write to a totally different directory and then copy it over might work- I'll try it out. Gabe -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Hans Voss Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 11:54 AM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Installing on a read only file system Ehm, maybe a stupid question, but if the filesystem is readonly, I assume the read-only wil have to be lifted in order to install new software on it (like the wiki). Either make the configuration part of the install process or (and?) Make the LocalSettings.php and the images directory a link (hard link) to somewhere on a read/write filesystem. LocalSettings assumes that you might want to change some parameters at some point, the images directory assumes that you want to enable uploads. On 11/16/05, Sechan, Gabe <sechan(a)amazon.com> wrote: -- ---- Met vriendelijke groeten / With kind regards Hans Voss --------------------------------------- skype: hans.voss google talk enabled I am looking for people to invite to Gmail. I have 100 invitations left. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l