And I would need to have only dummy php files in my andra etc directory? Plus a 
real LocalSettings.php of course. Will they load the good json files etc?

Thanks for the tip.

Pascal

Brian Wolff a écrit, le Thursday 12 December 2019 à 21:37:36 :
> If symlinks aren't an option (It would be weird for a hosting provider to
> disallow that), you can probably use dummy php files that just load the
> real version of themselves.
> 
> e.g. Have MediaWiki in a directory named mediawiki
> 
> then in a different directory named andra have a file named index.php
> containing only
> <?php
> require "../mediawiki/index.php";
> 
> And do similar for load.php, and any other files ending in .php that are
> top-level in MediaWiki (e.g. api.php, load.php,etc. But only the top level
> ones, don't worry about the subdirectories).
> Then do the same thing for the other wikis you want to install in other
> directories.
> 
> 
> This should mostly just work (WMF wikis actually do something kind of like
> this, but for different reasons), although you will need to adjust
> $wgExtensionAssetsPath to be 'mediawiki/extensions'; If you enable uploads,
> you will need to make sure each wiki has a unique upload directory.
> 
> --
> Brian
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 9:28 PM Pascal GREGIS <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Thank you Brian for the explanations. I d'ont have the courage anymore to
> > track down all the hardcoded index.php, and if you say it may be fragile, I
> > think I have no other option but to lose 1GB of my available space copying
> > mediawiki directory 4 or 5 times.
> > It would be nice however if possible to have other options for multiwikis,
> > as all hostings don't allow symlinks or subdomains / domain aliases.
> >
> > For ereg_replace, I don't know why preg_replace gave horrible results on
> > my server, but anyway, I should'nt need it anymore.
> >
> > Pascal
> >
> > Brian Wolff a écrit, le Thursday 12 December 2019 à 18:08:46 :
> > > It would be much better if you could use separate directories instead of
> > > renaming index.php. Renaming index.php is not really a supported
> > > configuration. There's the obvious problem of how do other scripts, like
> > > load.php know what wiki is being referred to.
> > >
> > > If you're really intent on doing this, You can try ensuring that
> > $wgScript
> > > is set appropriately for each wiki (E.g. $wgScript = '/w/andra.php'; for
> > > the andra one). However, there are probably places (especially for
> > > extensions) where index.php is hardcoded, and as i mentioned before,
> > there
> > > are other entry points then index.php like load.php and api.php which
> > will
> > > be confused by this. I expect that this setup will break in subtle ways.
> > >
> > > You would also have to ensure there are separate image directories for
> > each
> > > wiki or mediawiki will get confused.
> > >
> > > p.s. ereg_replace is being removed from php, you should use preg_replace
> > > instead.
> > >
> > > --
> > > bawolff
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 5:54 PM Pascal GREGIS <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hello everyone,
> > > >
> > > > I have troubles running several wikis on a same installation.
> > > > In fact I cannot use neither symlinks nor subdomain redirections to do
> > it.
> > > > So I have tried a hand-mde solution with a copy of index.php.
> > > > i.e. : I want to run 4 wikis, that I have called :
> > > > - andra
> > > > - anthony
> > > > - nita
> > > > - crep
> > > >
> > > > To go to andra for example I type the address :
> > > > pascal.lautre.net/w/andra.php
> > > >
> > > > and I have created a LocalSettings-$wikiname.php for each of the 4
> > wikis,
> > > > setting a switch in the main LocalSettings.php to include the
> > appropriate
> > > > one.
> > > > But I've got all my vairables and paths erased when the wiki
> > redirects, it
> > > > calls index.php/Accueil for example and I have no way to know what was
> > the
> > > > original call.
> > > > I have even tried to use a hook, the BeforePageRedirect hook, but it
> > > > worked only for loading the Accueil page (I guess it would be called
> > HOme
> > > > in english, or Welcome), after, I have the problem again when I try to
> > > > connect, the link points to index.php instead of andra.php.
> > > >
> > > > Here is the code of my LocalSettings.php:
> > > >
> > > > <?php
> > > >
> > > > $ppw = "/w";
> > > > if (! isset($pascal_request_uri)) {
> > > >   $pascal_request_uri = split("/", $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'])[2];
> > > > }
> > > >
> > > > $wgHooks['BeforePageRedirect'][] = function ($out, &$redirect, &$code)
> > {
> > > >   GLOBAL $pascal_request_uri;
> > > >   GLOBAL $ppw;
> > > >
> > > >   $redirect = ereg_replace("/index.php", "/$pascal_request_uri",
> > > > $redirect);
> > > >   return true;
> > > > };
> > > >
> > > > switch ($pascal_request_uri) {
> > > >   case "andra.php":
> > > >   case "anthony.php":
> > > >   case "nita.php":
> > > >   case "crep.php":
> > > >     require_once("LocalSettings-$pascal_request_uri");
> > > >     break;
> > > >   default:
> > > >     echo "<p>NO wiki specified. please choose a wiki, ex: <br>\n";
> > > >     echo $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] . "$ppw/idees.php<br>\n";
> > > >     exit(1);
> > > > }
> > > >
> > > > Thank you for any help!
> > > >
> > > > Pascal
> > > >
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