Mediawiki1.7 for Debian
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Configuration files for mediawiki1.7 should be placed in /var/mediawiki1.7.

This situation is due to an issue with the inclusion path in the default
configuration file generated by the application.

Indeed, the path is resolved to the directory where the real configuration file
lives, which would give /etc/mediawiki1.7 if it were to be placed there.

Instead, the correct inclusion path needed for the application to work is
/var/lib/mediawiki1.7. This is also where you must point your webserver
for serving the application.

The package do not provide a link to the configuration files in /var/lib/mediawiki1.7
in order to prevent any bad behaviour during futur upgrade of the package. Instead,
the next package, mediawiki1.9 will kindly replace and link the configuration files
in the order that is expected by the administrator, /etc/mediawiki1.7.

However, you can create this link yourself without any risk of a possible removal.
A command like:

	ln -s /var/lib/mediawiki1.7/LocalSettings.php /etc/mediawiki1.7/my-site.org.config

Will do the job for you.


Romain


