Thread:Project:Support desk/User Preferences Update issues and File Permissions/reply

Well, I figured it out but I cannot explain it.

I tried to bring my wiki back to a blank state by disabling all of the extensions. To my fortune, my preferences saved fine with all the extensions disabled. I then re-enabled them one by one until it failed and it failed on the URL Shortner from Manual:Short URL.


 * SHORT URLS:
 * $wgScriptPath = "";          # Path to the actual files
 * $wgArticlePath = "/wiki/$1";   # Virtual path
 * $wgUsePathInfo = true;

These settings caused it to fail.

However, these settings work.


 * SHORT URLS:
 * $wgScriptPath = "";          # Path to the actual files
 * $wgArticlePath = "/food/$1";   # Virtual path
 * $wgUsePathInfo = true;

I have not the slightest clue why the $wgArticlePath of wiki causes the user preferences to not save, but by changing it to anything other than wiki causes it to work fine.

Also, I was having problems with Safari Browser producing blank pages without a PHP error, even though I forced error reporting via the FAQs. This also seemed to be fixed with the change in the article path. However, no other browsers were exhibiting this issue.

Any explanation would be much appreciated so I don't run into a similar issue in the future, but I am just happy that I somehow stumbled upon a fix.