[Pkg-mediawiki-devel] Bug#402689: mediawiki installs to all VirtualHosts

[Matthew Carroll]

Package: mediawiki
Version: 1:1.7
Severity: important

On installation, mediawiki sym-links from /etc/apache2/conf.d/mediawiki1.7.conf
to /etc/mediawiki1.7/apache.conf. Whilst convenient for single host, in a
multiple hosting environment this has the unwanted effect of creating a
/mediawiki alias on *all* VirtualHosts, and - potentially - overriding the
configuration of any VirtualHost that already has a local copy of mediawiki
installed.

By default, web apps should be disabled. A similar potentially harmful
global alias was removed from gallery2 earlier this year in #344220.

Thanks
Matthew


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (700, 'unstable'), (700, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-3-686
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages mediawiki depends on:
ii  mediawiki1.7                  1.7.1-4    website engine for collaborative w
ii  mediawiki1.7-math             1.7.1-4    math rendering plugin for MediaWik

mediawiki recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information