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Page Linking Help Needed
Hi, is there a plugin that automatically links key words to other Wiki pages? At the moment I am manually creating links but I'm sure there must be another way?

Any help would be much appreciated!

Mediawiki Appliance Version 1.13.20 Problems
Downloaded rPath Mediawiki Appliance, Running it on VMwear PLayer but can't find the localsettings.php file to edit.

Can't find much documentation. Any help or documentation would be great!

Extension Licensing Guidelines
I was wondering if there were licensing guidelines for extensions. I am combined several extensions with MediaWiki and noticed that some of the extensions have licenses that are incompatible with other extensions (e.g. Affero v.3 with a majority of extensions under GPL v.2). There are also several extensions that have no license indicated--is there a default license if you are coding for combination with MediaWiki? I was wondering if there was already guidance or if there could be some written on these topics. Thanks.

mySQL database username

 * MediaWiki version: 1.15.1
 * PHP version: 5.2.9
 * MySQL version: 5.1.33

I am configuring MediaWiki, except the one part I am having problems with is when it is asking me for a database username and password and confirm password. Below that is the superuser account, which is root.

>>>''Granting user permissions... Query "GRANT DELETE,INSERT,SELECT,UPDATE,CREATE TEMPORARY TABLES ON `wikidb`.* TO 'username'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'password' " failed with error code "Can't find file: 'user' (errno: 2) (localhost)".'' <<<<

But it will not let me continue the configuration unless I specify a user and password since it will not let me leave it blank.

I am installing on Windows XP, just need some help with this issue. I am not very familiar with databases, i know the root user account info, but it is asking for a username and password and confirm password.

Any help would be much appreciated.

homerm@rosedale.ca

What server variables are needed
My neywork admin needs to set server variables to allow the upload to be successful...

Trying to load to www.high12.org,

current php and all info can be seen at www.high12.org/phpinfo.php

currently receive "?"s when attempt to load php is made...admin requesting server settings needed

attempted to register for the forum but never receive conformation email...so hear i am.

After installation on IIS 7.0 no templates are being loaded

 * MediaWiki version: 1.15.1
 * PHP version: 5.2.4
 * MySQL version: 5.1.41
 * URL: Internal

I've just finished installing Media Wiki on IIS 7.0 (Windows Server 2008) machine and althought everything seems to have configured and executed properly on the installation page, now that I am on the main page I have no templates (it seems no css) loaded only text.

One thing I should point out is that in order to get Media Wiki working on IIS 7.0 I needed to setup .htaccess RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /wiki/index.php?title=$1 [L,QSA]

otherwise I would get on every page "No input file specified".

How can I get the template/css to load properly?

—208.48.154.67 19:19, 22 January 2010 (UTC)


 * MediaWiki version: 1.15.1
 * PHP version: 5.2.10-2ubuntu6.4
 * MySQL version: 14.14 Distrib 5.1.37, for debian-linux-gnu (x86_64)
 * URL:

Only the main page is visible. Logging in as WikiSysop with proper password does no good. All links lead to a plank page.

Is there a fix for this?

Thanks jerrycannon@me.com

—216.86.198.114 22:09, 23 January 2010 (UTC)

Can I place a Banner of a Sponsor in all pages of my wiki project (using MediaWiki)?
Hi, I am developing a wiki project (using MediaWiki) for a start-up media company. This wiki project will have information (terms, history of some companies,...) that the editorial team will be collecting during their day-to-day activities. It is not a core activity of this company, its more like a knowledge center that the team will be developing throughout time that will be of great interest for educational purposes (universities, companies,...)

I was thinking about adding a Sponsor' banner (top banner) in all pages of this wiki project. Are there any legal restrictions that forbidden the use of banners in MediaWiki, or is it OK to add a Sponsor Banner?

Many thanks, Pedro

—79.146.73.14 11:45, 31 January 2010 (UTC)


 * MediaWiki version: mediawiki-1.15.1
 * PHP version:
 * MySQL version:
 * URL:

I have downloaded the Mediawiki software and I also have Microsoft Sql database server in my company.

Whats next? How can I develop this application.

Thanks

Regards d

—Librarytest 02:16, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

Superuser account problem: can't install
MediaWiki 	1.16alpha-wmf (r59858) PHP 	5.2.4-2ubuntu5.7wm1 (apache2handler) MySQL 	4.0.40-wikimedia-log URL: can't install yet, so no URL

I am trying to install MediaWiki on my website. My web host supports MySQL and has confirmed everything is set up for me on their server. However, because it is an ISP, I do not have a root account access or password.

On the Mediawiki installation page, I leave the "superuser" account area blank, or have tried entering my ISP's MySQL server name and password, or combinations of the above (blank, partial, complete) and I still get the "something's not quite right" error -- Won't install. I see in red these characters: "&lt;- Enter" on the line next to superuser password. That's the only error message I am seeing.

I can't get past this. I am not a computer geek, and don't understand tech-speak. Will someone explain how I can install MediaWiki in this environment and get past this problem in plain English? THANKS!

Rocky:  rocky@rockylopes.com

—96.255.200.237 17:04, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

"LocalSettings.php" file never created

 * MediaWiki version: 1.15.1
 * PHP version: 5
 * MySQL version: 4.1
 * URL:

I just followed the instruction to install the wiki. everything worked perfectlly and I got this message at the end of the instalation:

"Installation successful! Move the config/LocalSettings.php file to the parent directory, then follow this link to your wiki. You should change file permissions for LocalSettings.php as required to prevent other users on the server reading passwords and altering configuration data."

The problem is that the LocalSettings.php is not on the config dir or anywhere else...

What should I do ?

Thanks.

—207.253.38.186 21:46, 12 February 2010 (UTC)DIEGO CAMPOS


 * MediaWiki version:
 * PHP version:
 * MySQL version:
 * URL:

—109.112.95.254 16:12, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

Hi, I can't find the LocalSettings.php file after completing the installation. what could be happening??? Any help would be really appreciated.

—207.253.38.186 15:00, 15 February 2010 (UTC) IHub INC

Fatal Error on line 279
I had the same problem as this gentleman had before. I got the following message:

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

* PHP 5.2.12 installed * Found database drivers for: MySQL SQLite * PHP server API is cgi-fcgi; using ugly URLs (index.php?title=Page_Title) * Have XML / Latin1-UTF-8 conversion support. * Session save path (/tmp) appears to be valid. * PHP's memory_limit is 90M. * Couldn't find Turck MMCache, eAccelerator, APC or XCache; cannot use these for object caching. * Found GNU diff3: /usr/bin/diff3. * Found ImageMagick: /usr/bin/convert; image thumbnailing will be enabled if you enable uploads. * Found GD graphics library built-in. * Installation directory: /home/danoff/danoff.org/dive * Script URI path: /dive * 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 danofforg...success. * Connected to mysql 5.0.88-userstats-log * Database danoff_org exists * There are already MediaWiki tables in this database. Checking if updates are needed...   * Warning: you requested the mysql4 schema, but the existing database has the mysql5-binary schema. This upgrade script can't convert it, so it will remain mysql5-binary.

...ipblocks table does not exist, skipping new field patch ...ipblocks table does not exist, skipping new field patch ...already have interwiki table

Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in /home/danoff/danoff.org/dive/includes/db/Database.php on line 1263

Warning: mysql_num_fields: supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/danoff/danoff.org/dive/includes/db/Database.php on line 1263

Fatal error: Call to a member function isMultipleKey on a non-object in /home/danoff/danoff.org/dive/maintenance/updaters.inc on line 279

please advise, danoff.charles@gmail.com

--Charles Jeffrey Danoff 12:56, 21 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Problem was resolved by Dreamhost. Turns out I had installed it twice, they changed the prefix to "wiki2_" and it worked. Thanks to anyone who was thinking about helping. --Charles Jeffrey Danoff 00:26, 22 February 2010 (UTC)