INSTALL: Don't warn against using PHP "as a CGI plugin"

This note is very old; it was added in r2832 (635388356be70130) and
r3285 (7ab7a50cf928861f). Modern versions of MediaWiki support CGI and
FastCGI installations nearly as well as mod_php installations. In fact,
Wikimedia currently uses HHVM's "fastcgi" server type, and intends to
use php-fpm with PHP 7 (see migration plan in T176370).

For a basic MediaWiki installation using the web installer, the only
difference I know of is the default URLs: /w/index.php?title=$1 for CGI,
as opposed to /w/index.php/$1 for mod_php. This issue is easy to fix by
changing $wgArticlePath, if the web server sets REQUEST_URI. Admins who
want to use short URLs (e.g. /wiki/$1) have to do this anyway.

Also, in img_auth.php and the "img-auth-nopathinfo" message, don't imply
that CGI and FastCGI server configurations generally can't provide path
information or support MediaWiki features that need it.

Change-Id: I89212e9d51f950a58f911083b9e109b69cd4e060

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 91dcbea..d68342c 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -17,9 +17,6 @@ Required software:
 MediaWiki is developed and tested mainly on Unix/Linux platforms, but should
 work on Windows as well.
 
-If your PHP is configured as a CGI plug-in rather than an Apache module you may
-experience problems, as this configuration is not well tested.
-
 Support for rendering mathematical formulas requires installing the Math extension,
 see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Math
 

diff --git a/img_auth.php b/img_auth.php
index 2052809..ca69d31 100644 (file)
--- a/img_auth.php
+++ b/img_auth.php
@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@
  *  just that it was. If you want to change this, you can set $wgImgAuthDetails to 'true'
  *  in localsettings.php and it will give the user the reason why access was denied.
  *
- * Your server needs to support PATH_INFO; CGI-based configurations usually don't.
+ * Your server needs to support REQUEST_URI or PATH_INFO; CGI-based
+ * configurations sometimes don't.
  *
  * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by

diff --git a/languages/i18n/en.json b/languages/i18n/en.json
index d350e3f..3d58927 100644 (file)
--- a/languages/i18n/en.json
+++ b/languages/i18n/en.json
@@ -1783,7 +1783,7 @@
        "uploadstash-zero-length": "File is zero length.",
        "invalid-chunk-offset": "Invalid chunk offset",
        "img-auth-accessdenied": "Access denied",
-       "img-auth-nopathinfo": "Missing PATH_INFO.\nYour server is not set up to pass this information.\nIt may be CGI-based and cannot support img_auth.\nSee https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Image_Authorization.",
+       "img-auth-nopathinfo": "Missing path information.\nYour server must be set up to pass the REQUEST_URI and/or PATH_INFO variables.\nIf it is, try enabling $wgUsePathInfo.\nSee https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Image_Authorization.",
        "img-auth-notindir": "Requested path is not in the configured upload directory.",
        "img-auth-badtitle": "Unable to construct a valid title from \"$1\".",
        "img-auth-nologinnWL": "You are not logged in and \"$1\" is not in the whitelist.",