[Mediawiki-l] Solved (RE: Upload PDFs, Visios?

[George Herbert]

Much better user error than some bizarre new bug for us all to go figure out 8-)


On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 6:27 PM, Laws, Peter C. <plaws at ou.edu> wrote:
> (sorry for the Outlook-y reply)
>
> "NTSB says pilot error to blame"
>
> Apparently, if you edit the LocalSettings.php file in the directory you made when you untarred your backup tarball instead of the real one in $wgScriptPath it doesn't take.
>
> My bad.  Sorry for the bandwidth.
>
>
> [slinks off in shame]
>
> --
> Peter Laws / N5UWY
> National Weather Center / Network Operations Center / Remote
> University of Oklahoma Information Technology
> plaws at ou.edu
>
> ________________________________________
> From: mediawiki-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org [mediawiki-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Jim Hu [jimhu at tamu.edu]
> Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 19:38
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> Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Upload PDFs, Visios?
>
> I figured you had, but I've forgotten to turn those back on when
> updating before...
>
> So... more detail about what you see when it "doesn't work"?
>
> Jim
>
>
> On Jun 23, 2008, at 6:15 PM, Laws, Peter C. wrote:
>
>>
>>> Let's start with the obvious...can you upload other file types?  In
>>> localsettings.
>>
>>> $wgEnableUploads       = true;
>>
>>> set permissions so apache can write to the images directory.
>>
>>
>> Yes.  Been doing that for some time and now have users that want to
>> put other files up.
>>
>>
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>> Peter Laws / N5UWY
>> National Weather Center / Network Operations Center / Remote
>> University of Oklahoma Information Technology
>> plaws at ou.edu
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