Thread:Project:Support desk/Sharing Common Resources across multiple mediawikis

Hello,

I'm trying to share photos and other uploadable files across 3 different wikis, much like the guide at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Wiki_family#Scenario_4:_Multiple_wikis_sharing_common_resources. I've got all the settings in, but I keep getting an error that says "failed to mkdir "http:\\mediawiki.domain.com\mediawiki1\common\7\72 mode 511 in C:\path-to-mediawiki\includes\GlobalFunctions.php on line 2536.

The three media wikis (mediawiki1, mediawiki2, mediawiki3) all have differing permissions, so I created that common folder to try and circumvent a permissions issue, which obviously I have failed at. I am extremely new to media-wiki, and probably would have set it up differently, but it is what it is unfortunately. Could someone help me troubleshoot this out.

The end goal is to have all three wikis point to a common folder (preferable OUTSIDE of each mediawiki instance) to share those resources.

My localsettings.php is as follows (for mediawiki2 and mediawiki3 - mediawiki1 is my shared storage media wiki to share everything):


 * $wgUseSharedUploads = true;


 * $wgUploadDirectory = 'http://mediawiki.domain.com/mediawiki1/common';


 * $wgSharedUploadPath = 'C://htdocs/mediawiki1/common/';


 * $wgHashedSharedUploadDirectory = true;


 * $wgUploadNavigationUrl = "http://mediawiki.domain.com/mediawiki1/index.php/Sepecial:Upload";

I am running this on Windows.

Jon