On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Richard <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Lots of extensions require me to issue a shell command: > > php maintenance/update.php > > ...but I don't have shell access to my mediawiki installation; I only > have FTP access. > > So far I haven't needed to deploy any extensions that required this, > but now I am wanting to deploy several extensions that have this > requirement in their installation procedure. > > How do people typically deal with this? > > Why does this script need to be run from the shell and not from an > administrative UI? >
Ever since the new installer was written in 1.17, you can run the update process from the web installer. If you navigate back to the installer and it detects LocalSettings.php, you will be prompted to upgrade instead of install. -Chad _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
