Thread:Project:Support desk/how to make MediaWiki load the MySQL my.cnf file so that SSL can be used to the MySQL database/reply

MediaWiki doesn't support SSL MySQL connections out of the box. If you need them desperately, you can hack includes/db/DatabaseMysql.php to add MYSQL_CLIENT_SSL as another parameter to mysql_connect call (there's exactly one use of this function). I haven't checked it myself though.