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@@ -87,9 +87,9 @@ which the user can edit by hand thereafter. It's just a plain old PHP file,
and can contain any PHP statements. It usually sets global variables that are
used for configuration, and includes files used by any extensions.
-Distributors cannot easily add extra statements to the autogenerated
-LocalSettings.php at the present time -- although hacking mw-config/index.php
-would work. It would be nice if this situation could be improved.
+Distributors can easily add extra statements to the autogenerated
+LocalSettings.php by changing mw-config/overrides.php (see that file for details
+and examples).
There's a new maintenance/install.php script which could be used for performing
an install through the command line.
@@ -106,6 +106,7 @@ intelligently:
mail().
== Updates ==
+
The correct way for updating a wiki is to update the files and then run from
command line the maintenance/update.php script (with appropriate parameters if
files were moved). It will perform all the needed steps to update the database