[Mediawiki-l] language, images, mediawiki 1.4, special messages and customization

Sun Dec 19 20:16:10 UTC 2004

Thanx, that was very helpful! Turns out it was really simple, after all, and
it seems I've got Image Upload working now, in Safe Mode! - was using an FTP
program that didn't allow me to set folder properties, but found a new one,
which did - and everything seems to be all fine now :-)

Thanx!
Morten :-)

Brion Vibber wrote:

> On Dec 18, 2004, at 5:00 AM, Morten Blaabjerg wrote:
> > Another concern of mine, is images. Since my server runs in PHP Safe
> > Mode, image upload is automatically disabled
>
> Image upload is *always* automatically disabled. This is for security
> reasons; uploading arbitrary data to your web server is potentially
> dangerous, and it's a) safer to have it off and b) it wouldn't work
> anyway until you fix up permissions in the images directory.
>
> Search the list archives for previous questions about uploads in safe
> mode. (Use google and add site:mail.wikipedia.org to your query.)
>
> In 1.4 you can now suppress the hashed subdirectories (which cause most
> of the trouble with Safe Mode) but you may still need to add temp,
> archive, and thumb subdirectories and make them all writable. Set
> $wgHashedUploadDirectory = false in LocalSettings.php
>
> -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
>
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