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.

Roan Kattouw (Catrope)

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