Utilisateur:Jd/tmp

Local filesystem location

jd@plop [/var/www]
$ ll mediawiki/
total 604
... my mediawiki directory

Skins are thus located in mediawiki/skins/.

Local access to the wiki is at http://localhost/mediawiki/.

Web location

The online version is at http://bepo.fr/wiki/ and this MediaWiki is installed in a wiki/ directory in the server.

Inside a skin

If one writes something like

<script type="text/javascript" src="/mediawiki/extensions/jquery/jquery-1.3.2.min.js"></script>

it works locally but fails online for the mediawiki directory does not exist on the server.

If one writes instead

<script type="text/javascript" src="/wiki/extensions/jquery/jquery-1.3.2.min.js"></script>

it happens to work both online (correct path) and locally.

Question: is "wiki" interpreted as a generic placeholder in some way by MediaWiki, checking where the real root is when it reads "/wiki/" in some paths like the previous examples?

Answer: actually it works if you forgot to delete an old backup you did store under a wiki directory… *bash* Well that's a trick anyway to work on different structure: symbolic links :)