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Author: russnelson

Description:
I have set up mediawiki a couple of times before, but am not an expert (yet). Thus I made a naive mistake which I would like to prevent others from making. I believe this patch improves the documentation so that nobody will look at $wmLocalFileRepo to true as I did.

Index: includes/DefaultSettings.php

  • includes/DefaultSettings.php (revision 76954)

+++ includes/DefaultSettings.php (working copy)
@@ -365,8 +365,13 @@

    • - apibase Use for the foreign API's URL
    • - apiThumbCacheExpiry How long to locally cache thumbs for *
  • * The default is to initialise these arrays from the MW<1.11 backwards compatible settings:
  • * $wgUploadPath, $wgThumbnailScriptPath, $wgSharedUploadDirectory, etc.

+ * If you leave $wgLocalFileRepo set to false, Setup will fill in appropriate values.
+ * Otherwise, set $wgLocalFileRepo to a repository structure as described above.
+ * If you set $wgUseInstantCommons to true, it will add an entry for Commons.
+ * If you set $wgForeignFileRepos to an array of repostory structures, those will
+ * be searched after the local file repo.
+ * Otherwise, you will only have access to local media files.
+ *

*/

$wgLocalFileRepo = false;


Version: 1.17.x
Severity: enhancement

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