Last modified: 2011-02-26 12:40:27 UTC
I've just installed mediawiki on a 1and1.com account. It installs fine when I install into a subdirectory, but not when the domain itself points to that directory. What happens is that when I try to run the setup, it can't find /config/index.php, and Apache offers me /config/index.html which is the 1and1.com control panel page. So, to me it looks as though there is another directory "config" which the installer is trying to read, and not the one in mediawiki distribution. I changed the directory from "config" to "wikiconfig" and then I was able to find /wikiconfig/index.php but then although it said it created the LocalSettings.php file, it did not. /wikiconfig is 777.
You'll have to change the references to the 'config' subdirectory _in_ the installer as well, or it may write its output to the wrong directory.
I tried changing every occurence of config to wikiconfig in the index.php file, but it now won't complete. Looks like it is saying there is now an error with my mysql username or password, which are both correct.
No matter, I tried it again this morning, and got it to complete in my wikiconfig/ directory. Still think you should consider changing the config directory name so that others don't have this problem.
*** Bug 3815 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 9064 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Same problem here - please change the Name to /install.
Would be good to make this sort of thing easier to resolve.
cf bug 5125 Might make sense to go ahead and rename to something like mw-config, keeping the config dir for compatibility/habit. (It can just include() the file from the other dir to run cleanly.)
Brion, wouldn't /install make more sense? Although I can understand the initial reasoning to call it /config, the script does more than create the LocalSettings.php file: it also initializes the database. Maybe /mw-install would be better just to make sure we don't get any naming conflicts with that either.
It's also used for upgrades, and may be used for other config in future.
I've been looking over it, and it looks like it'll be a simple fix. HOWEVER... There's no way to do this cleanly in a patch, since the unified diff format can't keep track of file moves, etc: in short, it will destroy the history for /install. Is it possible for me to get Subversion commit access to fix this one?
(In reply to comment #11) > /install Typo, that should be /config.
Once I complete the back\front-end separation of the installation script it will be located at /maintenance/install (or maybe /maintenance/config)which shouldn't cause a problem.
Maybe not as a sub folder of maintenance because I now realize that there is a .htaccess Deny from all.
*brushes off the dust* Hi folks :) With new-installer in place it's presumably a lot easier to revisit this now. As I mentioned in bug 5125 comment 11, we don't want to write LocalSettings.php to /config anymore. In fact, we're moving even more code out of it entirely. In the end, it's just going to have the simple entry point script. Should be fairly trivial to rename /config to anything we'd like now. /mw-config probably wouldn't conflict with anything.
Definitely doing this in 1.18 after the 1.17 release ships (I probably should've done this before branching, but too late now) The following suggestions could work: /mw-config/index.php /mw-setup/index.php
(In reply to comment #16) > Definitely doing this in 1.18 after the 1.17 release ships (I probably > should've done this before branching, but too late now) I don't think it's too late, we still haven't released RC1.
Fixed in r82845.
