[Mediawiki-l] Installing on a read only file system

[Brion Vibber]

Sechan, Gabe wrote:
> I'm trying to install mediawiki, but the system we use to deploy code
> has it on a read only file system.  I can't just chmod the config
> directory.  Is there another way to configure it?  It seems like I'd
> just need to generate 1 or 2 files, and run some sql commands.

You can make a LocalSettings.php manually. You can do a local
installation for a sample, or just rip the text out of config/index.php.

The SQL table setup is in maintenance/tables.sql (or
maintenance/mysql5/tables.sql if you are on MySQL 5 and dare to try the
experimental support)

If you have a _completely_ readonly filesystem you may have some issues
though; a writable temp dir for PHP sessions (see php.ini), temp files
for automatic merging with diff3, and of course file uploads if you use
that.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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