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It would be great to have a parameter to ignore existing LocalSettings.php.

In my case, a wiki_farm, I run many wikis on the same MW codebase, and I have a script to create new wiki instances. While trying to retrofit my script to use install.php, I found that there's no way to make it ignore the existing LocalSettings.php file, which is effectively a dispatcher to instance-specific configuration files.

I expected that specifying --conf to a location where no LocalSettings.php file existed, would do the trick, but it seems that this option is ignored.

That should be reported on Phabricator. Interestingly, it seems nobody has requested this feature yet (although I'd find it very useful)

I have been wanting this for years, just not believing that requesting it would make any difference, unless Wikimedia wikis needed it.

There's, however, this related ticket: T288388

I'm with أحمد on this one, fwiw.