Difference between revisions of "Creating an AdminSettings.php"

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The bash commands to change the file are provided;
 
The bash commands to change the file are provided;
 
  cd /var/www/mediawiki-[version]
 
  cd /var/www/mediawiki-[version]
  [[Cp_(Unix)|cp]] AdminSettings.sample AdminSettings.php
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  [[W:Cp_(Unix)|cp]] AdminSettings.sample AdminSettings.php
 
  [[W:Nano_(text_editor)|nano]] AdminSettings.php
 
  [[W:Nano_(text_editor)|nano]] AdminSettings.php
 
  [[w:chmod|chmod]] 700 AdminSettings.php # Changing the permissions of the file
 
  [[w:chmod|chmod]] 700 AdminSettings.php # Changing the permissions of the file
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Alternatively, already created [[MW:Manual:AdminSettings.php|AdminSettings.php]] files could be copied to new instances of mediawiki.
  
 
==See also==
 
==See also==
 
*[[MW:Manual:Maintenance_scripts]]
 
*[[MW:Manual:Maintenance_scripts]]

Revision as of 04:35, 17 July 2008

Procedure.svg Creating an AdminSettings.php
Organic Design procedure

To be able to run maintenance scripts, a file called AdminSettings.php must be created which contains global variables for the username and password for the database that the instance of mediawiki uses.

The file in OD/Wikia is located in /var/www/mediawiki-[version]. The file AdminSettings.sample in the same directory is an example. Inside the file AdminSettings.php, populate the variables with the real mysql passwords for a user that has root privileges;


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The bash commands to change the file are provided;

cd /var/www/mediawiki-[version]
cp AdminSettings.sample AdminSettings.php
nano AdminSettings.php
chmod 700 AdminSettings.php # Changing the permissions of the file

Alternatively, already created AdminSettings.php files could be copied to new instances of mediawiki.

See also