It's no longer necessary to remove LocalSettings.php to upgrade a wiki
using the web installer. Just navigate to mw-config/index.php and
follow the instructions.
-- Tim Starling
On 02/11/12 17:31, Yury Katkov wrote:
AFAIK if you only have ftp access you can rename your
LocalSettings.php,
install your wiki once again and move back LocalSettings.php
-----
Yury Katkov, WikiVote
On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 8:58 PM, Richard <legalize(a)xmission.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Lots of extensions require me to issue a shell command:
>
> php maintenance/update.php
>
> ...but I don't have shell access to my mediawiki installation; I only
> have FTP access.
>
> So far I haven't needed to deploy any extensions that required this,
> but now I am wanting to deploy several extensions that have this
> requirement in their installation procedure.
>
> How do people typically deal with this?
>
> Why does this script need to be run from the shell and not from an
> administrative UI?
>
> Thanks.
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