I'm trying to install mediawiki 1.6.8 on a remote web host. I've chmod'd the config directory with the appropriate permissions, yet config/index.php still reports that it can't write the config file and instructs me to change permissions on the config directory.
I'm wondering if the config script merely generates the LocalSettings.php file and if so, whether I can simply import a LocalSettings.php generated from another mediawiki installation.
-- Andrew Stewart Research Assistant, Genomics Team Navy Medical Research Center (NMRC) Biological Defense Research Directorate (BDRD) BDRD Annex 12300 Washington Avenue, 2nd Floor Rockville, MD 20852
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On 18/12/06, Andrew Stewart stewarta@nmrc.navy.mil wrote:
I'm trying to install mediawiki 1.6.8 on a remote web host. I've chmod'd the config directory with the appropriate permissions, yet config/index.php still reports that it can't write the config file and instructs me to change permissions on the config directory.
I'm wondering if the config script merely generates the LocalSettings.php file and if so, whether I can simply import a LocalSettings.php generated from another mediawiki installation.
The configuration script also sets up the database structure, creates the initial sysop/bureaucrat user, creates the default main page and initialises the MediaWiki namespace.
If you create the structure manually, create your user manually and plonk in a LocalSettings.php file yourself, you can probably get away without actually running it.
Rob Church
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