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[RESOLVED] New links not acknowledging that page exists

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Cfschulte 314 (talkcontribs)

When a user creates a new link (colored red), and then goes to the link to create a new page and save it, then comes back to the original page, the link will still be red. It will be the shade of red of a visited empty link, but it will still show that the page does not exist. This lasts until a new link/page is created, or I 'touch' the LocalSettings.php file on the command line, at which point I can't find anything on Google like this.

The version of mediawiki for that site is 1.23.0, but I have another test site on the same server that is at 1.23.3. php version is 5.3.3.

I've updated extensions, etc. and still no change. Has anyone seen anything like this? Is there a maintenance script that will help? Thanks

Florianschmidtwelzow (talkcontribs)

Have you some kind of caching activated? If yes, how it's configured?

Cfschulte 314 (talkcontribs)

The only things I have set for cache are

$wgMainCacheType    = CACHE_NONE;
$wgMemCachedServers = array();

Commenting them out does nothing. I was expecting it to be a cache issue because the ugly workaround is to reopen the edit page and hit 'save' a second time.

Nemo bis (talkcontribs)

The last user who asked about this on #mediawiki had forgotten to set up the job queue properly, i.e. run it with a crontab. I also suggest that you go through Manual:Performance tuning.

Cfschulte 314 (talkcontribs)

It took some playing around with this, but it seemed to work. Thanks!

146.112.26.98 (talkcontribs)

Can you please tell me what you did to resolve?

I have a Mediawiki page with over 100 links (web pages). Out of that, about 7 of the links (web pages) are highlighted in "red color" and when I hover over those 7 links, I get message (Page does not exist). And indeed no content is found on these pages.

I have imported the database from previous version of wiki (and imported images) and all the other webpages show content but these 7 webpages show "Page Does not exist" and highlighted in red color.

I have the following settings:

$wgMainCacheType = CACHE_NONE;

$wgMemCachedServers = [];

I am using in Windows server:

MediaWiki 1.35.2

Apache 2.4.47 Win64 from Xampp

mysql-8.0.23-winx64 (MySQL :: Download MySQL Community Server)

PHP 7.4.3

I have successfully inported the database, images, ran "update.php" and all the other web pages and images correctly show. The 7 web pages do not have any content and highlighted in red.

can you please suggest what might be the reason?