Enrico Weigelt wrote:
BTW: I'm a little bit confused why it needs root privileges to add / change some tables. Isn't the database already owned by thewiki's user ? ... strange ...
Some people prefer to give their webapps limited insert, update, and delete access and it's likely that Mediawiki's updates require alter, create, drop, and file access which might be why they say to use an account with root privileges.
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