User talk:Smaug

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Logo/Uploading Help
Hello,

I'm having a few problems with my MediaWiki and was wondering if you could help me out.

First off, I can't get file uploads to work. I keep getting a message that says they are disabled even though I have went through the steps to enable them such as changing the words to "true" and "yes" in the LocalSetting.php and php.ini files. Is there something else I can try?

The other thing is regarding the logo on the left.

For some reason, there is no logo area inside the LocalSetting.php file where they tell you to go to change the picture. Is there a way to fix this?

Any help would be appreciated. I'm getting a little frustrated.

http://www.twins-territory.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

--12.218.227.226 18:43, 3 June 2008 (UTC)


 * You should consider getting an account on MW.
 * Anyway, $wgLogo is not in LocalSetting.php; you must add it. Whenever documentation or instructions say to set a variable in Localsettings.php, feel free to add it in if it is not there.
 * I do not yet have personal experience in file uploads. I noticed that you asked this question on the Support Desk.  If you do not get an answer there, you could try #mediawiki on IRC. Smaug  [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] 19:24, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Okay, so I just need to add the logo thing into the file. Do you know what exactly I need other than the "$wgLogo" part?

--12.218.227.226 13:22, 4 June 2008 (UTC)


 * If you have your image at "http://www.twins-territory.com/wiki/images/newlogo.png" then set

$wgLogo = "images/newlogo.png";
 * or if that doesn't work

$wgLogo = "http://www.twins-territory.com/wiki/images/newlogo.png"
 * Also see Manual:$wgLogo. Smaug [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] 15:39, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Okay, that worked great. Now I need to simply fix the upload thing because I can't start unless I can upload pictures.

I uploaded the logo in the backend manually...

--12.218.227.226 21:52, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

I know you said that you don't have much experience with the uploads aspect of MediaWiki, but I was looking through the documentation again trying to figure it out, and saw that I have no php.ini folder which is an area that you need to set file_uploads to on.

Could that be the reason? If so, how could I go about adding this file?

Nevermind I guess it wasn't in the Wiki folder and was just a different file on the server. Do you think I'd need to move it to the Wiki folder to make it work?

Also, is there someone you could ask about this? Thanks for your help so far...

--12.218.227.226 00:54, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Nevermind again. It looks like it was only overwriting one of the LocalSettings.php files meaning the other one was still set to "false". I made the change and uploads are working.

Thanks for all of your help, I appreciate it.

--12.218.227.226 01:04, 5 June 2008 (UTC)