On Jul 27, 11:46 pm, Platonides <[email protected]> wrote: > Benjamin Lees wrote: > >> 2) the update instructions say I might not have an AdminSettings.php file > >> but later say I must have one and it's used in the update.php command line. > >> I don't have one for my v1.14.0 mediawiki so do I need this and if not what > >> is the command for running update without it please? > > > You won't have it if you haven't upgraded before; you'll need to > > either create it (copy AdminSettings.sample to AdminSettings.php and > > then edit it) or just define $wgDBadminuser and $wgDBadminpassword in > > LocalSettings.php. > > In fact, AdminSettings.php is not needed for latest mediawiki versions. > It will try to update with the normal db user (which should then have > enough permissions to do so, of course).
I ended up needing AdminSettings.php because I had to provide my root database user details - the normal user didn't have enough permissions. Maybe I'd set up something in correctly earlier, but at least the root permissions worked. Thanks > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected]https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
