Actually, it means "open the file named $filename with readonly permission" Matt Gallisdorfer wrote: -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Help-tf3988966.html#a11329863 Sent from the WikiMedia General mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

found on mwuser that it's related to your config / configs problem (seems to be on 1and1 hosts ?) found this on fr.wikipedia : Bon en fait c'est un problème de chemin relatif. Pour corriger, il suffit de remettre le répertoire maintenance à la racine du site : * Mon médiaWiki est installé dans /homepages/12/d123456789/htdocs/mediawiki-1.7.1 j'ai donc tapé dans le ssh : cp ~/mediawiki-1.7.1/maintenance ~/ -r ou si vous n'utilisez pas le ssh, déplacez le dossier maintenance à la racine à l'aide de votre client FTP favoris :) which means : "it's a relative path problem, correction is : put /maintenance/ at the root of website" "mediawiki is installed in /blabla/ (almost the same as you, so I guess you have the same hosting company 1and1 ? ) "then connect to the server with ssh and type the command : cp ~/yourwikifolder/maintenance ~/ -r or move it there by ftp if you don't have ssh" I don't know if it helps though (isn't your maintenance folder already at the root of your website ?) Alexis Moinet wrote: -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Help-tf3988966.html#a11330839 Sent from the WikiMedia General mailing list archive at Nabble.com.