at the risk of stating the obvious, did you read the bottom of this page:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgReadOnly
Some caches that use the database may still be written to during read only
mode. This can be avoided by disabling cache, albeit at the cost of making
your wiki slow. This can be accomplished with the following settings in
LocalSettings.php:
$wgMessageCacheType = $wgMainCacheType = $wgParserCacheType = CACHE_NONE;
$wgLocalisationCacheConf['storeClass'] = 'LCStoreNull';
On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 12:40 PM, John Horne <john.horne(a)plymouth.ac.uk>
wrote:
Hello,
I have been testing the $wgReadOnly and $wgReadOnlyFile options. My
understanding is that these will prevent mediawiki from writing to the
database and hence not allow pages to be updated. I have tried both
options on servers running mediawiki 1.19.2 and 1.24.0 - neither option
on either server seems to work. In all cases I am still able to modify
wiki pages.
For the $wgReadOnlyFile option I created the file with some plain text
in it, and change the ownership to that of the web server (apache).
Does anyone have any idea what I might be doing wrong here? I intend to
use the file option for wiki backups, but obviously don't want people
updating things while the backup is occurring.
John.
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