Thanks for the answer, that helps. For the rest of the questions:
1. Is the site name used anywhere in the MySQL database?
2. Will changing the site name make it any more complex to upgrade from 1.5.4 to 1.1.x?
Appreciate the help.
Frank Fulchiero Digital Media Specialist Connecticut College
From: "Gary Kirk" gary.kirk@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] How to change site name
The sitename that displays in the title bar, {{SITENAME}} et al is controlled by $wgSiteName, yes. Hope this helps.
On 9/7/07, Frank Fulchiero fful@conncoll.edu wrote:
I wanted to change our site name from acorn, to wiki. I know this is generic, but have reasons to do it...
The root is already "wiki"
http://nutmeg.conncoll.edu/wiki/
Running MediaWiki 1.5.4
How can this be done? Is it enough to change $wgSitename in LocalSettings.php? Do any changes need to be made to the MySQL database? Will this mess anything up when I upgrade to 1.1x in a few months?
On 09/09/2007, Frank Fulchiero fful@conncoll.edu wrote:
Thanks for the answer, that helps. For the rest of the questions:
- Is the site name used anywhere in the MySQL database?
No. However, it *is* used as the default project namespace name, and changing it without then overriding the project namespace name will cause previous existing links to that namespace to break.
In general, the best option is to add an additional $wgNamespaceAliases line (see the includes/DefaultSettings.php comment on it) so that the old project namespace still works.
- Will changing the site name make it any more complex to upgrade
from 1.5.4 to 1.1.x?
No.
Rob Church
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