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(OUTDATED) Cannot access my Mediawiki

 * MediaWiki: v 1.11.1
 * PHP: 5.0.5
 * MySQL: 4.4.7
 * URL: http://wheeler-roots.org/wiki GenesWiki

I'm a newbie, but I finally got my Mediawiki installed and running yesterday. All went fine all day. Used it until late last night. Then, this morning, when I tried to access it, I got an HTTP 500 error - Webpage cannot be displayed. This happens repeatedly.

I have made NO changes to ANYTHING since using it successfully yesterday. Can you please help me sort this out? Thanks!

Gene

bridgebum@gmail.com

—76.101.229.225 15:52, 20 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Check your apache error logs (or IIS error logs if you're using that). --Skizzerz talk - contribs [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] MediaWiki Support Team  00:02, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Log shows the following typical error: File does not exist: /home/gwheele6/public_html/404.shtml

Gene --76.101.229.225 22:05, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) Legalities of using Wikimedia material

 * MediaWiki: 1.11
 * PHP:
 * MySQL:
 * URL:

OK, so here's my problem. I've got MW 1.11 installed on my server, image uploads configured, extensions added - ParserFunctions, Nuke and Oversight. Soon to add on Makesysop and Checkuser too.

What's the legalities of using material from Meta wikimedia and Wikisource (the one that's en.wikisource.org) under the GFDL and how do I transwiki them into my wiki getting all revisions?? On some Wikimedia projects it says they can't get all revisions via transwiki.

and what's the way in the database to change an offensive signature in old revisions??

I need some help, just trying to learn some stuff on this wonderful new software!

Ta, —84.45.219.185 12:55, 26 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Did you try using Special:Import? -PatPeter, [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] MediaWiki Support Team  00:16, 27 February 2008 (UTC)


 * oh, and how do you get spam blacklisting to work?? plus one more question, what's the legalities of using the logos from Wikisource for my wiki? --84.45.219.185 12:59, 26 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Is there a spam blacklisting extension that you are referring to? Or if you are referring to an IP address you want to block? Go to the IP's userpage or talkpage and you will have a link in your Toolbox named "Block user" or you can go to Special:Blockip. -PatPeter, [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] MediaWiki Support Team  00:16, 27 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Plus, how will I add extra namespaces/talk page namespaces?? --84.45.219.185 13:00, 26 February 2008 (UTC)


 * See Manual:Using custom namespaces. -PatPeter, [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] MediaWiki Support Team  00:16, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Updated links to point to correct locations. As for legalities, check each images image page and look at the copyright status. Some are Public Domain, others are copyrighted and cannot be used. --Skizzerz talk - contribs [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] MediaWiki Support Team  02:27, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

~ Seb35 09:00, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Category:Spam management extensions
 * To import pages from Wikimedia, you can use Special:Import but you need to have a file which comes from Special:Export ; the pages you import must have the GFDL license, see en:Wikipedia:Copyrights. To download all pages of Wikipedia, see http://download.wikimedia.org/
 * For Wikipedia, Wikisource and other logos, they are trademarked by the Wikimedia Foundation.


 * Thanks so far for the help. I did try Special:Import but I couldn't get every revision of a page, e.g. Template:Hoax for example. However, I'm not sure how to get transwiki working properly. Thanks so far. Alex @ --84.45.219.185 13:10, 27 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Apologies for the IPs vandalism on other Wikimedia projects: it was wardriving that turned this IP into an open proxy, but it should be secure now. --84.45.219.185 13:10, 27 February 2008 (UTC)


 * I was trying to copy Wikimedia's setup on a WAMP server, just for testing purposes, but can't qyite figure out how to do it. I got steward rights working fine, e.g. Testuser@wikinumber1 from (none) to sysop, bureaucrat e.g. Testuser@wikisite2 from sysop to sysop, checkuser

Anyone know how Wikimedia uses their LocalSettings.php file. Alex @ --84.45.219.185 13:14, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
 * --MF-Warburg 15:19, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) Installation - mysqli db authentication issue

 * MediaWiki: 1.11.0
 * PHP: 5.2.5 with the Suhosin Patch 0.9.6.2
 * MySQL: 5.0.18
 * URL: intranet site http://mywiki/
 * OS: FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE#0

I have been unable to install via http://mywiki/config/index.php. I keep getting the following error:

Installing MediaWiki with php file extensions Environment checked. You can install MediaWiki. Generating configuration file...

Database type: MySQL Loading class: DatabaseMysql Attempting to connect to database server as root...failed due to authentication errors. Check passwords. Something's not quite right yet; make sure everything below is filled out correctly.

The Superuser name and password fields are flaged "check username" and "check password".

super user was created: mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO testuser@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'testing' WITH GRANT OPTION; mysql> flush privileges;

I have tried changing the user password to the old_password support via: mysql> set password for testuser@localhost = OLD_PASSWORD('testing') mysql> flush privileges;

I have had trouble in the past with apps that use mysql instead of mysqli extensions. eg:

result:

Protocol version: 10

Could not connect: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO)

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated !!

Thank you, —jeff 216.8.138.75 18:23, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
 * It's saying it's failing to connect as root, but the passwrod you're setting is for testuser --Nad 20:20, 27 February 2008 (UTC)


 * I realize that. This has something to do with mysqli. Anyone have any ideas ? - jeff -216.8.138.75 13:20, 29 February 2008 (UTC)


 * I had a comparable error message. Accidently in php.ini the setting sql.safe_mode = on was set. This lead to a conflict with my database username for the wiki. I could solve it by setting sql.safe_mode = off. --92.117.246.245 12:02, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) URL changed
I had to move my Wiki to a different folder. It is now at www.ncrcag.com/mvc instead of www.ncrcag.com/tv

How do I fix the issues this caused? --24.74.36.191 20:36, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
 * What issues did you have? At least you must change $wgScriptPath in your LocalSettings.php from "/tv" to "/mvc". --MF-Warburg 15:15, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) Broken link ...
On

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Downloading_MediaWiki

this link is broken:

http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.11/mediawiki-1.12.0rc1.tar.gz

It probably should read:

http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.12/mediawiki-1.12.0rc1.tar.gz

—63.231.91.154 03:02, 12 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Probably, but this is not the place to report it. -PatPeter, [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] MediaWiki Support Team  02:41, 27 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Actually it has been fixed. -PatPeter, [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] MediaWiki Support Team  02:42, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) Getting Error after the instalation compplets
Hello,

I have just installed MediaWiki 1.12.0rc1 and when going to the Main Page I am getting a PHP error for the DOMDOCUMENT and I am stumped.

Error: Fatal error: Class 'DOMDocument' not found in /var/www/html/CDSWiki/includes/Preprocessor_DOM.php on line 566

I am running PHP5.1.6 and Apache2.2 on linux.

Let me know what I can do to solve this issue.

Thank You for Your Support, Micah Coletti —Mcoletti 20:07, 13 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Hello,
 * I had the same problem with a fresh install of mediawiki 1.12.0rc1 on PHP 5.2.5 / Apache 2.0.52-32.3.en It was solved by installing the php-xml rpm.
 * Sylvain —The preceding unsigned comment was added by User: (talk • contribs) . Please sign your posts with ~ !


 * Thanks Sylvain for you quick response,
 * I have been looking for the php-xml rpm and I can only find one for php4 and it will not install. Do you know where I can get the php-xml rpm that will work for php5.1?  Thank you so much for your help.
 * —Mcoletti


 * There is no DOM package for php5 because it comes inbuilt, you must have it disabled. Run a phpinfo script and see what's enabled and disabled, and check your php.ini. --Nad 18:51, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

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I had the same issue and ran the following to resolve, as mentioned above!

yum search php-xml

php-xml.i386               5.1.6-15.el5           base Matched from: php-xml The php-xml package contains dynamic shared objects which add support to PHP for manipulating XML documents using the DOM tree, and performing XSL transformations on XML documents.

yum -y install php-xml.i386

+-+-KHutchinson —The preceding unsigned comment was added by User: (talk • contribs). Please sign your posts with ~ !


 * Thanks guys. Remember to -HUP (restart) your HTTP server. (RHEL: service httpd restart). Developers: Please document this! This is a required PHP extension and should be mentioned in the INSTALL page. I don't think wading through the "Recent changes" to find this is fair. --Otheus 11:33, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) Unable to configure media wiki at first installation
I am having difficulty installing the software on the server. I am getting ratty with it and so am probably missing something very simple. I cannot get any further than navigating to the page where it says MediaWiki 1.12.0rc1 Please set up the wiki first. When I click on the link in this page I get 500: Internal Server Error (Sorry, the page you requested is not currently available. This is because the server has encountered a problem is creating the page for you.)

As far as I know, I am using an Apache server - it is one provided by www.freevirtualservers.com. I downloaded the package, unzipped it and uploaded the whole folder as is to the public_html folder. I set the permissions for the config folder to 777 using the cpanel (actually I changed all the parent to 77 to be sure)I don't know what else to try...

I Have checked and php 5 appears to be supported (in cpanel it is listed as a mime TYPE - application/x-httpd-php .php .php4 .php3 .phtml php php3 php4 php5 php6 )and in checking that I just discovered that front-page extensions are installed. The mysql server is not part of my site but is part of the hosting package and is accessed via phpMyAdmin which says Server version: 4.1.22-standard-log

hope you can help and see what I am missing

thanks

Mark —Mjltigger 01:26, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Check you php error log to see what the error is, or change your php.ini to turn on error reporting. --Nad 18:47, 18 March 2008 (UTC)


 * thanks - I have chased this down with my host and it appears only php4 is installed so am going to try again with an older version of wikimedia

(RESOLVED) Setting up multiple wikis by using the same source code

 * MediaWiki: (Reported by your Wiki's Special:Version page)
 * PHP: 5
 * MySQL: MySQL 5.0
 * URL: mymathnotebook.com and science.mymathnotebook

Hey I am trying to set up multiple wikis but use the same source code and was wondering if ther was a simple solution. Please contact me at [mailto:ndobie@nickdobie.com ndobie@nickdobie.com]. Thanks

—75.104.185.86 19:39, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
 * See Manual:Wiki family --Nad 20:06, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) Installation on a regular Windows 2003 server
Don't have access at this time to a web server. Wondering if I could install MediaWiki on our Windows 2003 server for pratice and development purposes. Then when our server is available move it to that server.

Lin —Lin light 20:53, 24 March 2008 (UTC)


 * I don't know for sure, but I beleive that it is possible. Smaug 21:36, 24 March 2008 (UTC)


 * I just came across Manual:Newcomers guide to installing on Windows and thought you might like to see it. Smaug [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] 19:19, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) Editing the Special:Version page

 * MediaWiki: 1.13.0
 * PHP: 5.2.4-2ubuntu5.3
 * MySQL: 5.0.51a-3ubuntu5.1

Can I edit the Special:Version page on my wiki? Just get rid of the warranty information (I will consider myself warned).

I will leave in the first paragraph with credits and copyrights. I will not distribute this software in this form to anyone.

Is this legally allowed? Thanks. Smaug 02:24, 25 March 2008 (UTC)


 * It seems like I should be able to, as there is nothing I see prohibiting me from doing as I describe above. I'm doing it. Smaug [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] 20:18, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) PHP Fatal error: Class 'DOMDocument' not found in /var/www/html/wiki/includes/Preprocessor_DOM.php on line 566

 * MediaWiki: 1.5.3
 * PHP: 5.0.4
 * MySQL: 4.1.20

[root@tuswiki maintenance]# php refreshLinks.php Refreshing links table. Starting from page_id 1 of 3060. PHP Fatal error: Class 'DOMDocument' not found in /var/www/html/wiki/includes/Preprocessor_DOM.php on line 566 After completed upgrading to mediawiki 1.12.0, it failed when I run the refreshLinks.php script to up the link tables. I got blank screen when I access wiki. Please help.

Thanks for your attention.

—12.106.66.116 21:07, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

You need to have the 'php-xml' package installed. Then you need to restart Apache: sudo yum -y install php-xml sudo service httpd restart

—198.253.49.6 21:14, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

There is a quick fix, Add this to LocalSettings.php

$wgParserConf['preprocessorClass'] = 'Preprocessor_Hash';

Thats all. Jeblad 20:09, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) Unable to Configure Email

 * MediaWiki 1.9.3
 * Windows Server 2003
 * MySQL 5.2

I've been running a wiki site on my server for a while, but I never set up the email feature. Now I'd like to do that, but I don't know where to start. I can't find any documentation on configuring email here at mediawiki.org, and I can't find any email configuration page on the wiki site itself. I found a couple of settings in LocalSettings.php, but no place to specify basic configuration settings like the SMTP server and email account. I know this stuff must be documented somewhere. Can someone point me in the right direction? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.106.184.113 (talk • contribs) 15:50, 29 March 2008. Please sign your posts!


 * What are you looking to do with the email feature? -PatPeter, [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] MediaWiki Support Team  02:31, 1 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Mainly, I'd like to allow users to watch pages. Also, I believe MediaWiki uses email to do things related to user accounts -- informing a user when an account is created for him, and informing a user when his password is reset. I'd like to enable those features also. -TC 7:08, 1 April 2008


 * I continued to research this issue, and I can now answer my own question. First of all, there are lots of posts related to email questions at mwusers.com/forums. From various comments there, I learned that MediaWiki does not require any email configuration; it uses the email configuration of the PHP software. I'm not sure exactly what fixed the problem, but by messing with php.ini and the settings in my SMTP server, I was able to get MediaWiki notifications working. -TC 7:54, 3 April 2008

(RESOLVED) Cannot access my MAIN PAGE on Mediawiki

 * MediaWiki: v 1.11
 * PHP: 5.2.0
 * MySQL: 4.1.18
 * URL: http://www.psych-it.com.au/psychowiki psychowiki

Hi, I got my Mediawiki installed and running yesterday. The problem is that when I try to get to the MAIN PAGE I'm getting a blank page. However if i try to get to any other page it seems to work fine. The main page is visible - only when I log into the system. Thank you

Ariel


 * Works fine for me. Smaug [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] 20:45, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, but the problem continues. I've found a good documentation of the same problem with DRUPAL system Here Ariel

Hi Again,

I want to try and refine the problem described above. Most pages, including the home page in our Wiki load just fine on first click. However, the problem seems to occur on susbequent clicks on the same line or when refreshing the page. This doesn't only happen on the main page but on any other page that is clicked/refreshed more than once. We are lost with this problem and can't go "on air" until we resolve the issue.

We will greatly appreciate assistance with this matter.

Ariel and Alex


 * Again, I do not experience this problem even when refreshing and such. Perhaps it is something to do with your browser settings (which I can not help you with)?  Try to cause the problem from a friend's computer, if you can.  See if it happens the same.  Smaug  [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] 17:53, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Hi Smaug, thanks for your help.

Me and Ariel live on two sides of the pacific and use different computers- but we have the same problem. We have made some progress today in realizing 2 things: 1. Both of us are using Firefox and when we tried our wiki on IE, there was no problem, even after clicking on a link many times (which makes me guess you were trying it out with IE?) 2. In Firefox, this seems to be related to the browser's cache- both me and Ariel tried clearing the cache many times today, and in all cases it fixed the problem once (i.e.- next time I click on a link it will go balnk again, and I will again have to clear the cache). I was hoping that this will give you some new ideas as to the potential soource of the problem?

Have a good one,

Alex & Ariel


 * Yup, I use IE! Good work.  Unfortunately, I don't have experience in Firefox or have an idea about what the problem could be.  Sorry that I can't be of further help.  I'm sure someone else on here will know.  Smaug  [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] 13:57, 12 May 2008 (UTC)


 * I found that you can set the cache to 0 (zero) and that solved my PHP debug problem. This will not solve the problem as such but it will get you a bit further?
 * Also I found a debug tool called FireBug that will plugin to FireFox and give you all kinds of nice info. Check it out?
 * Finally there is a IE plugin to Firefox. --Asset 07:44, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) Google Citing
Hello! Why can't I find my wiki in the Google, when I did input the URL of my wiki into the search field? Where can I input the robot metas in my wiki, to make sure, that Google finds my site? Doc Taxon 07:58, 30 March 2008 (UTC)


 * It will take a little while for Google to show your site in the search results. Submit your site to google, and give it time.
 * As for the robots.txt file, you can see the Wikimedia robots file here and MW.org's page on that subject. Smaug 15:12, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) Installation seemed okay, but pages load verrrrrrry slowly

 * MediaWiki: 1.6.10
 * PHP: 5.0.2 (apache2handler)
 * MySQL: 4.0.24
 * URL: Biology

The webmaster for our department server did a basic installation of MediaWiki at my request, then turned the files and responsibilities over to me (also at my request). The wiki is operational, but as the header suggests it takes a surprisingly long time to load any page within the wiki (often 10-15 seconds, far longer than either non-wiki pages on our or other servers, and far longer than pages from other MediaWikis, including this one). And when I replaced the 24K Logo image, with a sleeker 7K image, it seems to be taking if anything even longer, often 20-30 seconds. I've spent quite a while poring through the MediaWiki site and haven't found an obvious possibility to even explore. Again, the pages do get loaded. Eventually! Any ideas? Thanks!

—Alan H 15:13, 14 April 2008 (UTC)


 * I thought I added some comments earlier, but maybe I closed the tab before saving. I have two suggestions:


 * 1) ) Upgrade to a newer version of MediaWiki. The latest version is 1.12.* and there have been some speed improvements.
 * 2) ) Find out what kind of hardware the site is running on. If it is an older machine or a machine that does many tasks (probably likely for a departmental server), then that may affect the loading speed. --Barista 04:46, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) Old version of Wiki (Phase 3)

 * Linux : Mandrake 9.2
 * MediaWiki: Phase 3 (predates mediaWiki)
 * PHP: 4.3.3
 * MySQL: 4.0.15

I have a very early implementation of Wiki (called Phase 3). It was setup as an internal Comapny collaboration and communication tool some years back and has not been updated since. My question is - is there and upgrade/migration path from this Wiki to a newer more current version ?

Any help would be much appreciated.

Brendan Mullen bmullen@dcontinuum.com

Anyone got anything to add tot tis one. We love this wiki but really want to get it updated and onto newer hardware...

Brendan Mullen bmullen@dcontinuum.com


 * Look at the Caveats section (it's towards the bottom) of the upgrade notes; there's an upgrade path from Phase 2 up through 1.4.3 and then some further notes right above that. —Emufarmers(T 22:39, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) Missing defaultsettings.php?

 * MediaWiki: 1.11.0
 * PHP: 5.1.6 apache
 * MySQL: 4.1.22
 * URL: http://ruthlessearth.org/wiki BMS

Hi, I recently took over administration of a wiki site and have succesfully managed to install a couple of extensions. Now I'm having no luck at all with HTML enabling extentions and have done some research.

When thinking I should check the defaultsettings.php for errors I couldn't find it at all. Could the old administrator have somehow deleted it but still the wiki is operational?

Could this cause any problems?

Below is the list of folders and files in my wiki Ftp with FOLDERS listed in CAPITAL letters.
 * AdminSettings.sample
 * api.php
 * api.php5
 * BIN
 * logo.gif
 * config
 * copying
 * DOCS
 * EXTENSIONS
 * faq
 * history
 * HTMLETS
 * IMAGES
 * img.auth.php
 * img.auth.php5
 * INCLUDES
 * index.php
 * index.php5
 * Install
 * install-utils.inc
 * LANGUAGES
 * LOCALE
 * Localsettings.php
 * MAINTENANE
 * Makefile
 * MATH
 * opensearch-desc.php
 * profileinfo.php
 * PUBLIC
 * Readme
 * redirect.php, .php5 and .phtml
 * Release-notes
 * SERIALIZED
 * SKINS
 * Startprofiler.php
 * T
 * Test.php
 * TESTS
 * thumb.php & .php5
 * trackback.php
 * Upgrade
 * UPLOAD
 * wiki.html

Is your recommendation to create a new defaultsettings.php (if so: where does it go?), reinstall the whole wiki, or somethings else?

Thanks for the help, Andreas Wieslander —83.254.96.42 20:03, 8 May 2008 (UTC)


 * DefaultSettings.php should be in the INCLUDES folder. Is it not there? Smaug  [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] 20:36, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

sigh... Yes it is.. thanks for clearing that out. / Andreas


 * HTH :) Smaug [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] 01:00, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) Does this work in Windows?
Running Windows server with MySQL...will this program run?


 * If you have the correct versions of MySQL and PHP it will run fine on Windows, I'm almost certain. Smaug [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] 20:59, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I just came across Manual:Newcomers guide to installing on Windows and thought you might like to see it. Smaug [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] 19:36, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) co-written book, but owned by one person?
hi! i'm writing a reference book with the help of some volunteers. it will be online so we can collaborate (maybe using mediawiki). but all their contributions will be the property of me and they will agree to that beforehand, fully aware of everything. so i can publish it one day. give them a free copy. but if i make any money or profit from the book sales, it will only go to me. is mediawiki a good tool for this kind of project?

—206.248.172.247 21:04, 13 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Well if MW is a good tool depends on what form you want your collaboration to take. But legally MW is fine.  You can put any sort of license on the content as long as you don't sell the MediaWiki software itself. Smaug  [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] 21:11, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) Fatal Error
i get this error Fatal error: Class 'DOMDocument' not found in /hosted/subs/com.net.sc/w/i/wikihgs/public_html/includes/Preprocessor_DOM.php on line 566 on the main page so can u please help me

—76.179.19.92 21:24, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
 * See . i Alex  14:13, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) Error upgrading
had to move servers and now the wiki's broke. imported the sql dump just fine, and i'm trying to upgrade to 1.7 (was 1.6). getting this error from the command line:

Ideas? —70.168.59.158 19:01, 27 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Since version 1.7 php5 is needed, I think. Have a look above at, maybe there's some help. Regards -- 89.55.138.206 19:21, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) Blank Screen after upgrading to 1.12.0

 * MediaWiki: 1.11.1
 * PHP: 5.2.6 (apache2handler)
 * MySQL: 5.0.45
 * URL: on internal network

I upload the new files for 1.12.0 and then run the update.php script

Output of update.php: Depending on the size of your database this may take a while! Abort with control-c in the next five seconds...0 ...have ipb_id field in ipblocks table. ...have ipb_expiry field in ipblocks table.

... Done.

Then when I go to view the site's main page i just get a blank screen and the following line in the error log...

[Thu May 29 10:18:19 2008] [error] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] PHP Fatal error: Class 'DOMDocument' not found in .../includes/Preprocessor_DOM.php on line 566

(full path and IP were removed)

Any ideas on how to correct this ? I have reloaded the backups and ran the process again to have the same outcome. Thank you


 * Solved this my self... had to install php-xml
 * —166.33.78.205 16:23, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) Blank pages after install.
I've just installed the latest 1.12.0 version of the software on an Apache (Fedora Core) server. The environment had no errors, the installation had no errors. I copied the LocalSettings.php to the root subfolder and changed the config dir permissions. Yet, when I go to: http://webserve/pawiki/index.php/Main_Page or any page, I get a blank page. Nothing. View Source shows nothing. Can anyone help me figure out what to do? Thanks!

PS: according to phpini XML is installed: XML Support 	active XML Namespace Support 	active libxml2 Version 	2.6.20

—64.19.44.182 21:23, 2 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Ah!
 * Adding: $wgParserConf['preprocessorClass'] = 'Preprocessor_Hash';

to the LocalSettings.php file as indicated by an entry above fixed it!
 * --64.19.44.182 21:34, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) After installation ... oops!
if you can, answer in german. my english is not the best.


 * MediaWiki: 1.12.0
 * PHP: Er, do you mean the version? I don't really know 'cause I'm not good ín this.
 * MySQL: Like PHP.
 * URL: http://goetheflquotes.go.funpic.de/index.php/Hauptseite

After installation i'm seeing this: http://goetheflquotes.go.funpic.de/index.php/Hauptseite

help!

—87.122.107.216 15:27, 3 June 2008 (UTC)


 * I don't know German, sorry. It seems like whoever manages your server has disabled some PHP functions that MediaWiki needs to work.  Talk to them, and if they are unwilling to change PHP settings, I don't think you will be able to use MediaWiki on that subdomain. Smaug  [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] 16:12, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) Not a valid entry point??
After I installed MediaWiki-1.12.0 in the first step already, I had to straight to config/LocalSettings.php but I got a message "This file is part of MediaWiki and is not a valid entry point." I have tried to solve this problem but it is not fixed. How can I fixed this problem?


 * Are you browsing to http://website/config/LocalSettings.php? You need to move that file wiki/config/LocalSettings.php to wiki/LocalSettings.php and then browse to http://website/index.php.  After you do the installation, the text at the bottom of the page explains this too.  There are only a couple "valid entry points" for MediaWiki.  One is index.php.  Another is api.php.  --Cneubauer 14:58, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) wiki/index.php error after configuration success, can't edit pages
(above details may not be 100% correct, those are the details i got from my webhosts control panel, not from the version page, since i can't access anything.
 * MediaWiki: (1.12.0)
 * PHP: 5.2.2
 * MySQL: 5.0.45-community
 * URL: http://www.danda-comics.co.uk

after the initial configuration is successful, when i try to visit the actual wiki i get the following error. Warning: require_once(./LocalSettings.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/wowfood/public_html/wiki/includes/WebStart.php on line 86 Fatal error: require_once [function.require]: Failed opening required './LocalSettings.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/wowfood/public_html/wiki/includes/WebStart.php on line 86

i'm fairly certain i followd the instructions to the letter. I moved the localsettings.php from config to the wiki directory so i'm unsure how to resolve this issue. Thanks in advance.


 * Resolved, had to fiddle with permissions on localSettings.php

(RESOLVED) Navigation sidebar lost after moving wiki to new server; all else is fine

 * MediaWiki: 1.11.2
 * PHP: 5.2.4-2ubuntu5.1 (apache2handler)
 * MySQL: 5.0.51a-3ubuntu5.1
 * URL: (removed)

Successfully moved this wiki from old to new server using newer version (from Ubuntu 7.10 to 8.04), using steps outlined elsewhere, i.e.


 * 1) install MediaWiki (same version as before: 1.11.2) from ubuntu repository
 * 2) install MediaWiki-math (to get LaTex and math support)
 * 3) initialize MediaWiki using built-in script
 * 4) restore db from mysqldump file (new db, site now under ISPConfig)
 * 5) copy customized files, math, etc. from backups to new wiki

Did not simply wholesale copy all old MW folders over new ones because the simlinks didn't match up (don't know why, but the folder naming has changed from e.g. MediaWiki1.10 to just MediaWiki). Did cp -r for extensions, math, skins, images, and of course copied over LocalSettings.php. Tried this with includes but that made no difference to this problem. It's possible that I've missed a file and thus created the problem:

All the previous functionality came across, except that the navigation sidebar has disappeared. From the page source code, it's not getting written at all.

MediaWiki:Sidebar is present and unchanged:

navigation


 * Main Page
 * Top of E355 Draft
 * ASTM Blue Book
 * Community portal
 * Recent changes
 * Sandbox
 * Help
 * User's Guide

Create new articles type=createarticle prefix=E355: width=18 preload=Template:Preload editintro=MediaWiki:NewDefIntro buttonlabel=Create Definition align=left

The CreateArticle.php extension is in extensions alongside several others that are working.

I've run out of ideas on how to put the nav sidebar back and I'm hoping that you can point me in the right direction.

Thanks!

/var/log/apache2/error.log gets about 10 of these everytime the wiki page is loaded:

[Fri Jun 13 15:55:10 2008] [error] an unknown filter was not added: PHP

Not very helpful except it points towards a php file perhaps (Friday the 13th, no less).

SOLVED I failed to copy over ../Skins/MonoBook.php from the old install, which is customized for the sidebars.

—71.245.97.171 01:16, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) Homepage shows up with just �‹�

 * MySQL 5.0
 * PHP 5.0
 * Mediawiki 1.12.0.

I am installing Mediawiki 1.12.0 on a Godaddy free Linux account. Installation went without a hitch. However, when I go to the main page, I get "�‹�" and nothing else.

My wiki is located at http://gatlinburgtnonline.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

19:20, 13 June 2008 (UTC) JRD
 * Previous solution, Project:Support desk/Archive 12 122.108.28.198 08:47, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) Class 'DOMDocument' not found

 * MediaWiki: 1.12.0
 * PHP: 5
 * MySQL: MySQL 5
 * URL: www.wikigames.it/wikia/

Hi,

i' m italian. I' ve installed MediaWiki 1.12.0 on my domain correctly but when i go to the main page, I' ve got this error:

Fatal error: Class 'DOMDocument' not found in /home/wikigames.it/wikia/includes/Preprocessor_DOM.php on line 566

I don' t find a solution for this. Can you help me?

Thanks.

—87.6.197.3 07:19, 28 June 2008 (UTC)


 * You should look here.  mgrabovský  | talk  (DJ Jeri)  [[Image:Tournesol.png|25px]] MW Support Team  09:33, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) Installation Problem

 * 1) MediaWiki: 1.12.0
 * 2) PHP: 5.2.5 (cgi-fcgi)
 * 3) MySQL: 5.0.24

I have installed MySQL, PHP and MediaWiki as described for Win2k3 Server... http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Installing_MediaWiki_on_Windows_Server_2003

At the first setup:

MediaWiki 1.12.0 Installation

* Don't forget security updates! Keep an eye on the low-traffic release announcements mailing list.

Checking environment...

Please include all of the lines below when reporting installation problems.

* PHP 5.2.5 installed Could not find a suitable database driver! o For MySQL, compile PHP using --with-mysql, or install the mysql.so module o For PostgreSQL, compile PHP using --with-pgsql, or install the pgsql.so module



solved!!! False settings at point: "Enable write permissions on the C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\mediawiki\config folder (at least during the setup process)"

(RESOLVED) Help... Please?

 * MediaWiki: 1.13alpha
 * PHP:
 * MySQL:
 * URL:

Hi, can anyone help me install MW? I hope this is the right place... I had it installed, but it broke, and when I re-tried after deleting everything from the DB etc, and went to config, it said it was installed succesfully. Please, someone help me!

Bluegoblin7 14:19, 3 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi!
 * I'd say: delete the database-tables and remove the file "LocalSettings.php" from the main directory - that should do it...

(RESOLVED) DOMDocument Class problem after installation

 * MediaWiki: 1.12.0
 * PHP: 5.1.6
 * MySQL: 5.0.45
 * URL:

This is my third instalation of the Wiki system. I have installed it on Linux CentOS 5 and another on Windows 2003.

This one is Linux CentOS 5, and I have strange problem that I have not seen before. Setup part works and MySQL database is created; LocalSettings.php is copied into main directory. When I try to access newly created Wiki site, I see nothing - blank screen with no errors of any kind. It looks like page index.php/Main_Page was loaded but it is absolutely empty. When I look at Apache error log, I see the following error :

PHP Fatal error: Class 'DOMDocument' not found in /var/www/html/aspmhelp/includes/Preprocessor_DOM.php on line 566

This is a clean installation without any code alterations.

Can you help?


 * I have fixed the issue by installing php-xml rpm
 * —98.233.154.43 18:11, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) Allow edit for a single page
- Asset
 * MySQL 5.0 (?)
 * PHP ??
 * Mediawiki 1.12.0.

I managed prevented edit/access of pages for guests like this $wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false; $wgGroupPermissions['*']['read'] = false; $wgWhitelistRead = array ("Forside", "Ophavsret", "Special:Userlogin", "Diskussion:Forside");
 * 1) Restrict anonymous edit
 * 1) But allow this

Is there any way that I can allow talk on "Diskussion:Forside", much like $wgWhitelistEdit (only it don't work any more?)

I think I solved this myself. It is possibel to protect a page - as sysop - and leave the talk page unprotected. Thus I work with tree levels of protection:
 * User/group protection (useing $wgWhitelistRead)
 * namespace - using Extension:Lockdown
 * Sysop protection of specific pages - primary the frontpage of the site

Any suggestions as to making this more simple? --Asset 13:11, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) Allowed memory size of 10485760 bytes exhausted: FATAL ERROR.
Does anyone recognize what's going on with the wiki. I JUST installed it, it said installation was successful, when I clicked to go to my home page I got that message, as you will when you click here. It does this on all pages such as this page. I checked out "Parser.php" on line 889, and there is nothing relevant to the problem...or at least I think. So any help would be appreciated!

—75.100.87.252 05:04, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 10 MB as memory limit is not enough, you have to raise that limit. <font color="#66A7CC">i <font color="#9966CC">Alex  21:32, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) Removing logs
How can I the complete History inside my wiki without deleting the whole database? For example: I created an account and tried out different permissions, I blocked a few IP adresses and / or usernames an so on... Now I have logs where every action is reported. How can I remove these logs?

Mark Reichelt —24.14.152.53 22:59, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
 * If you don't have any logs of significance, you could purge the logs for the actions you mentioned by emptying the <tt>logging</tt> and <tt>recentchanges</tt> tables (using phpMyAdmin). —Emufarmers(T 05:30, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) Email problems
- Asset
 * MySQL 5.0 (?)
 * PHP ??
 * Mediawiki 1.12.0.

I get this message when I try to get the confirmation. What can be wrong - do I need to set $wgSMTP?

Rückmeldung des Mailservers: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. Please use the date.timezone setting, the TZ environment variable or the date_default_timezone_set function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'Europe/Paris' for '2.0/DST' instead


 * You need to add the appropriate line to LocalSettings and fix your time zone. -PatPeter, [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] MediaWiki Support Team  03:34, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) Can wiki software be used for commercial purposes?
I haven't started using this software yet, but have an idea for an application that would be free to users & contributors, but would allow links to places where product could be bought.

Is this allowed? ie is it permissable to use this as part of a revenue generating business, where the business selling the product pays a fee or percentage of turnover?

Thanks.

—Ampersat 14:16, 12 August 2008 (UTC)


 * You may use MediaWiki for any purpose; its license (the GPL) applies to redistributions of the software, not to your content. —Emufarmers(T 17:34, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) matchStartToEnd error in Parser.php
I installed 1.13 over 1.9.3. I get the error I tried installing from a new directory, same error. I use Xampp v1.6.8. I installed extensions ParserFunctions and Variables. The problem line in the code is this from <tt>function braceSubstitution( $piece, $frame )</tt> --142.206.2.14 16:57, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I solved it by re-installing MW and unselecting cache with eAccelerator which comes with Xampp (in fact no caching at all). --72.138.229.55 22:59, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) images not showing after upgrade

 * MediaWiki 1.13.0
 * PHP 5.2.5
 * MySQL 4.1.22 (client)
 * MySQL 5.0.62 (server)
 * Apache/2.0.63 (CentOS)

My site with image

Hi I just upgraded 1.12.0 to 1.13.0, I know in the FAQ there is a solution FAQ but somehow it doesn't work. Even uploading a new file doesn't help either, since it doesn't show up either.

Additionally, I found that somewhere the place where the images should be uploaded was changed, it used to be images/ and now it's public/ I just copied all the files from images/ to public but that doesn't give any joy either.

Any suggestions? --Henny 08:56, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

I noticed something else today, the full URL in the source is <a href="/mediawiki/index.php/Afbeelding:Dorpspomp_Ruinen_08-07-1.jpg" class="image" title="Dorpspomp Ruinen 08-07-1.jpg"><img alt="" src="/mediawiki/skins/common/images/icons/fileicon.png" width="120" height="120" border="0" /></a>

Does this ring any bell? --Henny 13:44, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

I noticed one more thing. In the database now there are zeros added to images, users, usergroups and the like

for instance

Dorpspomp_Ruinen_08-07-1.jpg 	49099  	178  	340  	[BLOB - 1.1 KB] 	8  	BITMAP  	image  	jpeg\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0

A bit complicated but I resolved it. I reverted back to the previous version and discovered to my surprise that all the texts were gone. So I reverted again back to version 1.3 and imported through SSH, and there MySQL a backup I had previously made. Even though the images didn't show up, they did after I reimported it.

The issue with the sysop rights remains though.