2009/8/12 dan nessett <[email protected]>: > I am insane to keep this going, but the proposal I made did not require doing > anything manually (other than running the install script, which you have to > do anyway). The install script knows (or can find out) where the MW root is > located. It could then either: 1) rewrite php.ini to concatenate the location > of MWInit.php at the end of include_path, or 2) plop MWInit.php into a > directory already searched by PHP for includes/requires (e.g., the PEAR) > directory. > On shared hosting, both are impossible. MediaWiki currently works with minimal write access requirements (only the config/ directory for the installer and the images/ directory if you want uploads), and we'd like to keep it that way for people who are condemned to shared hosting.
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