Thread:Project:Support desk/Index does not appear after installation

Hello, I am a first time MediaWiki user. I installed the software as per the instructions but as soon as I uploaded the LocalSettings file the whole wiki went dead. The error I am getting is this:


 * [6dd6cbfb] 2014-01-20 22:01:35: Fatal exception of type MWException

After an incredible amount of digging in the help wiki (which is really, really obtuse and unhelpful, even by wiki standards) I realised that [6dd6cbfb] was a reference to an entry in the server log. Unfortunately I have no idea how to get to that and I don't know how to set the flag that allows you to see the log entry on the screen. Can someone help? My server is Apache and my database is the latest version of MySQL