Settings in /etc/mediawiki/LocalSettings.php are ignored

[Nathanael Anderson]

Description: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Release: 18.04

mediawiki:
  Installed: 1:1.27.4-3
  Candidate: 1:1.27.4-3
  Version table:
 *** 1:1.27.4-3 500
        500 http://us-west-2.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Based on where the symlinks included in the package point, settings placed in: /etc/mediawiki/LocalSettings.php should over ride default settings.

So Creating /etc/mediawiki/LocalSettings.php with mode 640 that has only this line in it: $wgLogo = "https://cdn.dribbble.com/users/904380/screenshots/2233565/revised-google-logo.gif"

and saving it. Should, after clearing the browser cache, show a new image for the wiki, instead of the default.

This is not the current behaviour, hence the bug.

As a side note, after installing the package on ubuntu no documentation is displayed to the user, based on my googling today, it looks like LocalSettings.php used to have a generator, as part of the install process, and that has gone away. The new install process with out that feels like it isn't documented well, and this may just be a documentation issue.

[Kunal Mehta (legoktm)]

Hi,

On 10/29/18 9:55 AM, Nathanael Anderson wrote:
> Based on where the symlinks included in the package point, settings
> placed in: /etc/mediawiki/LocalSettings.php should over ride default
> settings.

Correct.

> So Creating /etc/mediawiki/LocalSettings.php with mode 640 that has only
> this line in it: $wgLogo =
> "https://cdn.dribbble.com/users/904380/screenshots/2233565/revised-
> google-logo.gif"
>
> and saving it. Should, after clearing the browser cache, show a new
> image for the wiki, instead of the default.

Uhh, that won't work. You first need to install MediaWiki, typically by
going through the web installer (<http://localhost/mediawiki/>), which
will generate a LocalSettings.php for you to save into /etc/mediawiki/,
and *then* you can modify the logo.

> As a side note, after installing the package on ubuntu no documentation
> is displayed to the user, based on my googling today, it looks like
> LocalSettings.php used to have a generator, as part of the install
> process, and that has gone away. The new install process with out that
> feels like it isn't documented well, and this may just be a
> documentation issue.

What/where did you expect documentation to be available? The package
already installs documentation to /usr/share/doc/mediawiki, including
README.Debian, which explains the briefly explains the install process.

-- Kunal

[Nathanael Anderson (wirelessdreamer)]

why does the main page display: MediaWiki has been installed. instead of please go to HOSTname/mediawiki to configure media wiki?