https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31101
--- Comment #11 from Svip <[email protected]> 2011-10-01 11:26:48 UTC --- (In reply to comment #10) > (In reply to comment #9) > > maybe have a link (with a big warning, javascript popup etc) to have the > > webserver write it, if we detect we can. Given my experiences in forum > > installation forums, the above is a common sight of the nightmare of > > permissions. Of course you wonder how they ever got the package files > > there... > > but we will never know. > > Really? My memories of installation nightmares have been with people not > having > made things webserver writable trying to install, getting to a point where the > db and everything was setup, it trying to write the config file, failing, then > leaving the user to have to cleanup and restart the whole process. > That... or if the system had decent writable checks being forced to change the > permission of folder after folder one by one, only to find when I return to > the > installer I have even more things it's telling me I need to change the > permissions of. I forgot that this is impossible to check for in PHP. My apologies. Listen, for *most parts* people would prefer this option to be available. I can handle having to download my LocalSettings.php and whatnot, but I also doubt that most people are like me. An alternative alternative could be creating the installation script as a command line script, then surely the user would be required to be logged in as themselves and then it could print it (and even if the user lacked write-access in this instance, it could always send it to the user's homedir and inform them of the new location). You really seem to be steering up a lot of non-issue bullshit in your refusal to fix this problem. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
