$wgUseSharedUploads and friends are these days implemented by automatically copying the settings into $wgForeignFileRepos, so it shouldn't matter which you use in theory. The latter is more flexible if you need it.
-- brion On Jun 15, 2011 5:05 AM, "Daniel Bishop" <[email protected]> wrote: > Could $wgUseSharedUploads (and associated settings) not be used to > accomplish this? I've used this previously without issue (admittedly, only > up to 1.15.x). > > I realise it was "replaced" by $wgForeignFileRepos, but I have to agree that > it is extremely difficult to understand how to use the setting from the > documentation. Setting up a "wiki family" with shared images using > UseSharedUploads was fairly straight-forward, but I can't even figure out > with certainty if it is possible with ForeignFileRepos (maybe ForeignDBRepo? > It's not clear), let alone how to actually accomplish it... > > Regards, > Daniel > > On 15 June 2011 02:12, Ling Hwee Ting <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Kilian, thank you for your reply. I tried understanding >> Manual:$wgForeignFileRepos but without much success. Anyway, thank you >> very much. Maybe I should just treat them as two separate websites. >> >> On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 12:03 AM, Kilian <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > On 06/11/2011 03:46 AM, Ling Hwee Ting wrote: >> >> Hi, I have two websites on the same topic and I am trying to use one >> >> image folder so that both websites can share the same images >> > >> > That's not possible, each wiki stores information about its images in a >> > database table. What is not in the table will not be found. >> > >> > If you want to share images between two or more MediaWiki installations, >> > here's what you need: >> > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgForeignFileRepos >> > >> > -Kilian >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > 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 >> > _______________________________________________ > 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
