Thread:Project:Support desk/Disenabling edit/contribution functions/reply (5)

LocalSettings.php is located at the root of your MediaWiki installation, in the same directory as index.php, api.php, etc.

I uploaded MediaWiki onto my website from Installatron, so I did not download the software from the web. Should I have done in order to find this directory?

Where is this directory where localSettings.php, index.php, api.php, etc. are to be found? Physically, what page is it on? It seems to be on neither the Media Wiki home page or the Control Panel.

If it is in the "root" of the Media Wiki installation, does that mean I should have changed it when I was first uploading Media Wiki (latest 1.16 version) onto my website? I have to apologise for my obtuseness, because I am just starting out and I know how difficult it is to explain things to a beginner (telling me that a file is in the same directory as another file is like telling a blind man the elephant in the room is standing next to the rhinosceros!).