Yongho Kim wrote: All configurable settings are in DefaultSettings.php; please always refer to this file first. # If you operate multiple wikis, you can define a shared upload # path here. Uploads to this wiki will NOT be put there - they # will be put into $wgUploadDirectory. # # If $wgUseSharedUploads is set, the wiki will look in the # shared repository if no file of the given name is found in # the local repository (for [[Image:..]], [[Media:..]] links). # Thumbnails will also be looked for and generated in this # directory. # $wgUseSharedUploads = false; # Full path on the web server where shared uploads can be found $wgSharedUploadPath = "http://commons.wikimedia.org/shared/images"; # Path on the file system where shared uploads can be found $wgSharedUploadDirectory = "/var/www/wiki3/images"; # Set this to false especially if you have a set of files that need to be # accessible by all wikis, and you do not want to use the hash (path/a/aa/) # directory layout. $wgHashedSharedUploadDirectory = true; # Path on the file system where shared uploads can be found $wgSharedUploadDBname = "commons"; # set true if the repository uses latin1 filenames $wgSharedLatin1=false; -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

Yongho Kim wrote: That's the place on the disk where you put the files. If you're referring to the misplaced comment, obviously that's wrong. The database name is a database name. -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

I am still unable to set the commons wiki properly. Could someone paste here a working LocalSettings.php wgSharedUpload configuration? Or could I see wikipedia's configuration? That would make it a lot easier to retroengineer it and adapt to my site's setup. Yongho On 5/11/05, Yongho Kim <yokima(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Hmm, I feel like I would need to enter more information to LocalSettings.phpfor this to work. As I understand it, Wikimedia Commons is a MediaWiki installation that *could* have text information but instead was dedicated to media files. And the other languages, english, german, etc.. will "look up" Wikimedia Commons when an Image: request does not show any local file. Right? So I'm assuming the configuration given by Brion Vibber $wgSharedUploadPath = 'http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons'; $wgSharedUploadDirectory = '/mnt/upload3/wikipedia/commons'; $wgHashedSharedUploadDirectory = true; $wgSharedUploadDBname = 'commonswiki'; is a LocalSettings.php insert for every single language wikipedia installation, except for Commons itself, right? If this is the case, why is given language MediaWiki X (let's say the english installation) not provided with the MySQL user and password for the UploadDBname "commonswiki"? Shouldn't there be entries for $wgSharedUploadDBuser and $wgeSharedUploadDBpassword ? For instance, our MediaWiki installs at mpkb.net are structured as follows: MySQL english wiki (/en) DB mpkbnet_wiki, prefix en_ (en_archive, en_brokenlinks, etc..) spanish wiki (/es) DB mpkbnet_wiki, prefix es_ (es_archive, es_brokenlinks) user for mpkbnet_wiki = mpkbnet_mpkbnet Then I try to set up the spanish wiki as subordinated to the english wiki, and so all images in spanish will be coming from the ones already uploaded at the english one. So I tried to set up the english one as a Commons. I inserted the following at the spanish wiki LocalSettings.php $wgSharedUploadPath = 'http://mpkb.net/wikien/images'; $wgSharedUploadDirectory = '/home/mpkbnet/public_html/wikien/images'; $wgHashedSharedUploadDirectory = true; $wgSharedUploadDBname = 'mpkbnet_wiki'; ( /wikien is the real directory and /en is a rewrite mask) and obviously it doesn't work, but.. how can this be done? Should I separate the english and spanish wiki into different databases? english wiki DB mpkbnet_wikien, prefix wp_ spanish wiki DB mpkbnet_wikies, prefix wp_ like this? But still, I can't see how one wiki would be able to access DB information for the other "commons" wiki. Help. Yongho On 11/29/05, Brion Vibber <brion(a)pobox.com> wrote: