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; | ||
| − | + | {{code|<bash> | |
| − | + | cd /var/www/mediawiki-[version] | |
| − | + | cp AdminSettings.sample AdminSettings.php | |
| − | + | nano AdminSettings.php | |
| + | chmod 700 AdminSettings.php # Changing the permissions of the file | ||
| + | </bash>}} | ||
Alternatively, already created [[MW:Manual:AdminSettings.php|AdminSettings.php]] files could be copied to new instances of mediawiki. | Alternatively, already created [[MW:Manual:AdminSettings.php|AdminSettings.php]] files could be copied to new instances of mediawiki. | ||
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*[[MW:Manual:Maintenance_scripts]] | *[[MW:Manual:Maintenance_scripts]] | ||
Revision as of 08:52, 5 March 2009
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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;
Set $domain to the domain of the wiki you're running the script on (don't prepend the domain with www or wiki).
The bash commands to change the file are provided;
Alternatively, already created AdminSettings.php files could be copied to new instances of mediawiki.
