* Andrew Dunbar <[email protected]> [Wed, 17 Nov 2010 13:32:25 
+1100]:
>
> Thanks Dmitry. PHP does work. The --help options always work. It
> turned out the LocalSettings.php somebody on #mediawiki pointed me to
> require_once()'d several extensions I didn't have and require_once()
> seems to fail silently. I'll try to aquaint myself better with the
> Error handling and logging section as you suggest.
>
require_once() should produce a warning on non-existent files. Warning 
reports should not be suppressed. For a development there should be

error_reporting = E_ALL | E_STRICT

in php.ini

> Is there somewhere an "official" blank or example LocalSettings.php
> file that would be better to use for people like me to avoid such
> problems? Rolling my own from scratch doesn't seem ideal either.
>
Usually it's being produced by web installer.
http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/phase3/config/Installer.php?view=markup

New installer is large and I haven't studied it throughly. I am more 
often upgrading from old versions than install from scratch.

However, when upgrading from old version, you have to add new options 
manually by observing the HISTORY file.
http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/phase3/HISTORY?view=markup

I wish the installer was able to parse original settings and warn of 
something outdated. However, that might make it really over complicated.
Dmitriy

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