On Sun, 2015-01-11 at 17:40 +0000, John Horne wrote: > Hello, > > I have been testing the $wgReadOnly and $wgReadOnlyFile options. My > understanding is that these will prevent mediawiki from writing to the > database and hence not allow pages to be updated. I have tried both > options on servers running mediawiki 1.19.2 and 1.24.0 - neither option > on either server seems to work. In all cases I am still able to modify > wiki pages. > I have now got both options working. The wgReadOnly option is now working, but I'm not sure why. The wgReadOnlyFile option it seems doesn't like using files in '/tmp'. It seems that the PHP functions is_file and filesize require the parent directory to have world 'x' permissions. For some reason it doesn't seem to like the sticky bit of /tmp (despite 'x' being present). So by using a different directory for the file, the option then worked as expected.
John. -- ---------------------------------------------------- John Horne Tel: +44 (0)1752 587287 Plymouth University, UK _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
