[Mediawiki-l] WikiSysop creation?

Peter Laws plaws at ou.edu
Fri Aug 17 18:44:03 UTC 2007


Gary Kirk wrote:
> It would perhaps be easier to re-run the web-based installer, with
> which you can create the WikiSysop user (or whatever you want the
> username of the initial bureaucrat and sysop to be) - rename
> LocalSettings.php to, say, LocalSettingsCopy.php and refresh the wiki
> in your browser, which will cause the install to re-run, as long as
> you didn't delete the /config directory. Using your
> LocalSettingsCopy.php file, enter the details & WikiSysop user.

And my DB stays untouched, right, so all the content (which is not a whole 
lot just yet) is untouched, right???

The MySQL route may be better ...


Someone asked:

     * MediaWiki: 1.10.1
     * PHP: 5.1.6 (apache2handler)
     * MySQL: 5.0.22


-- 
Peter Laws / N5UWY
National Weather Center / Network Operations Center
University of Oklahoma Information Technology
plaws at ou.edu

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