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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)

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)

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)

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)

/config/index.php shows a blank page

 * MediaWiki: 1.11.2
 * PHP: (5.2.5)
 * MySQL: 5.0.45-community
 * URL: http://kharid.x10hosting.com

http://kharid.x10hosting.com/config/index.php shows a blank page. however, http://kharid.x10hosting.com is not blank.

—Mahdi 15:08, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

ji iv just changed my pc its mico visa do i have to download mediawiki to get xtube and is it compatble, thanks

 * MediaWiki: (Reported by your Wiki's Special:Version page)
 * PHP:
 * MySQL:
 * URL:

—172.141.53.124 19:02, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Special Char -> Blank page by change or create a site

 * MediaWiki: 1.9.3
 * PHP: 5.0.4
 * MySQL: 4.1.13
 * URL: http://empireking.com/wiki

Hello, i think it's only a little problem. I can set topics and edit them -> all works fine! BUT ä/ö/ü/ß or something like that make problems! If i click on submit a blank page comes. Database is UTF-8 (german) and also it seems that the MEDIAWIKI PHP/HTML headers also. Somebody got an idea? Thanks for your time.

(Sorry for my bad english) Best regards Martin Keckeis

—62.47.248.17 11:03, 11 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)

Getting Error after the instalation compplets

 * MediaWiki: (Reported by your Wiki's Special:Version page)
 * PHP:
 * MySQL:
 * URL:

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


 * 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.


 * -- Micah

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

Installation error

 * MediaWiki: (Reported by your Wiki's Special:Version page)
 * PHP:
 * MySQL:
 * URL:

Executing Installation I get this error. I didn't leave any password as default... any suggestions?

--MJHugo

Unable to configure media wiki at first installation

 * MediaWiki: (Reported by your Wiki's Special:Version page)
 * PHP:
 * MySQL:
 * URL:

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

Problems with download

 * MediaWiki: (Reported by your Wiki's Special:Version page)
 * PHP:
 * MySQL:
 * URL:

I cannot acces the download page. Are the site down or?

Ditte Maria Bergstroem ditteberg [@] gmail [dot] com —90.184.14.119 16:12, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

"No input file specified." error

 * MediaWiki: 1.6.10
 * PHP: 4.4.8
 * MySQL: 4.1.22-standard
 * URL: http://www.malvagita.net/hqwiki

Had issues with the host some time back with PHP (they upgrade to 5 without notice or testing) and attempted to upgrade to the latest wiki to resolve it.

Host downgraded PHP to the current version before this could be completed.

Uploaded the backed up copy of the wiki files back to the host and when going to config it says the wiki is already setup.

When I go to the index, I get "No input file specified."

—Darkwater 04:49, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

MediaWiki does not install with PostgreSQL 8.3.0

 * MediaWiki: mediawiki-1.12.0rc1.tar.gz
 * PHP: PHP 5.2.5 with Suhosin-Patch 0.9.6.2 (cli) (built: Jan 16 2008 23:26:34)
 * MySQL: not used
 * PostgreSQL: 8.3.0
 * URL: internal, not available on internet

Fixed: problem was: database wikidb had not been manually created. Installation procedure and instruction rather confusing as to what needs to be done manually and what is automated.

Mediawiki fails to install on SuSE Linux 10.3 (64-bit PC), with PostgreSQL 8.3.0, PHP5, apache 2.2.4

uname -a: Linux pcname 2.6.22.13-0.3-default #1 SMP 2007/11/19 15:02:58 UTC x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

PostgreSQL running locally on port 5438 (not the default port): Result from SELECT version is: PostgreSQL 8.3.0 on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc (GCC) 4.2.1 (SUSE Linux)

The results from the mediawiki install in http://servername/sitename/config/index.php5 is:

some confusing error message regarding connection (not saying that the problem is that there is no wikidb database) Checking the version of Postgres... Warning: pg_query: supplied argument is not a valid PostgreSQL link resource in /srv/www/htdocs/sitename/includes/DatabasePostgres.php on line 553 Warning: pg_fetch_result: supplied argument is not a valid PostgreSQL result resource in /srv/www/htdocs/sitename/includes/DatabasePostgres.php on line 989 Could not determine the numeric version from !

Basically line 989 returns an empty string.

—Fgenolini 18:12, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Installation Parse Error

 * MediaWiki: (Reported by your Wiki's Special:Version page)
 * PHP:
 * MySQL:
 * URL:

When I try to install I get this message:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING in /www/99k.org/t/e/c/tech-diy/htdocs/config/index.php on line 227

I have first changed the 16 character Db username limit to 20 because my host has pre-set something I have to addon to. I just changed the 16 to 20, and nothing else. I can't seem to figure out what is missing here. Any help would be appreciated.

—70.226.3.30 18:10, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

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)

Installation on a regular Windows 2003 server

 * MediaWiki: (Reported by your Wiki's Special:Version page)
 * PHP:
 * MySQL:
 * URL:

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)

Editing the Special:Version page
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)

(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
 * URL:

[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)


 * MediaWiki: (Reported by your Wiki's Special:Version page)
 * PHP:
 * MySQL:
 * URL:

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)


 * MediaWiki: (Reported by your Wiki's Special:Version page)
 * PHP:
 * MySQL:
 * URL:

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

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

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

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

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)

PHP wrong version.... but it isn't!

 * MediaWiki: (Reported by your Wiki's Special:Version page) 1.12 - can't get at version page
 * PHP: 5.2.5 (according to php --version)
 * MySQL: mysql  Ver 14.12 Distrib 5.0.45, for unknown-linux-gnu (x86_64) using readline 5.0 (according to mysql --version)
 * URL: MurkWiki

I've just installed mediawiki, all went well, then I started getting referred to this page. I did php --version and I'm on version 5.2.5 with hostmonster I'm trying to run mediawiki latest (1.12) It was working fine for a short while, and then went belly up with "PHP 5.0.x is buggy on your 64-bit system; you must upgrade to PHP 5.1.x or higher. ABORTING. (http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=34879 for details)"

I am running 5.1.x or higher, I'm on 5.2.5!

This may be a bug with mediawiki or php - just trying to let someone know.

UPDATE: Running /index.php5 in the browser gets me in again, however... this isn't very elegant...

UPDATE2: I created the file .htaccess in my wiki installation, and added the line: DirectoryIndex index.php5

All seems good now.

By the way, the $wgLogo instructions appear out of date, as there is no longer $wgLogo in the LocalSettings.php

—86.17.221.5 08:38, 30 March 2008 (UTC)


 * The instructions are not out of date. $wgLogo is not in LocalSettings.php, you have to add it in there. Simple. -- Sayuri 12:57, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

MediaWiki keeps redirecting to a non-SSL page from an SSL-page

 * MediaWiki: 1.12.0
 * PHP: 5.2.5 (apache2handler)
 * MySQL: 5.0.51a
 * URL: Local net

I have MediaWiki installed on a FreeBSD machine. The page is accessible from a VirtualHost that is SSL-secured. I can directly access a page like so: https://wiki.local.net/wiki/index.php/Special:Version

but when I do this:

https://wiki.local.net/wiki/

It sends me to http://wiki.local.net/wiki/ which is not found.

Also, when I edit a page and save it, it then forwards me to a plaintext page again. Even when it sends out a email confirmation messages, it gives an http address instead of https (which of course doesn't work)

Any suggestion?

—202.86.29.26 13:40, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

LCGOV

 * MediaWiki: (Reported by your Wiki's Special:Version page)
 * PHP:
 * MySQL:
 * URL:

—77.24.97.239 10:46, 3 April 2008 (UTC)