On 4 Jul 2022, at 18:06, Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> wrote:

It would be helpful if Mediawiki put a new LocalSettings.php in the
tarball so we can see what a modern one looks like.

I agree with this. A couple of years ago I ran into the same (or at least a very similar) problem: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Vybbgss0yihimkrs

Best wishes

Jonathan