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(OUTDATED) Cannot access my Mediawiki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)

(OUTDATED) /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)

(OUTDATED) 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)

(OUTDATED) 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

(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

(OUTDATED) "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)

(OUTDATED) 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)

(OUTDATED) Installation Parse Error

 * MediaWiki: (Reported by your Wiki's Special:Version page)
 * PHP: (5.x)
 * MySQL: (4.x)
 * 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)

(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) 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)


 * I've been going round in circles for days over the blank page problem. The .htaccess tip worked perfectly. Cheers - Migs

(OUTDATED) 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)

(OUTDATED) Altervista
Hi I've tried to install a mediawiki inside my altervista account: I copied all the files on php5 folder on altervista but whe I try to open page for the installation I get the follow error

Notice: ini_set has been disabled for security reasons in /membri/starwiki/php5/wiki/config/index.php on line 33 Notice: set_time_limit has been disabled for security reasons in /membri/starwiki/php5/wiki/install-utils.inc on line 31 Notice: Use of undefined constant AV_NO_VIRUS - assumed 'AV_NO_VIRUS' in /membri/starwiki/php5/wiki/includes/DefaultSettings.php on line 272 Notice: Use of undefined constant AV_VIRUS_FOUND - assumed 'AV_VIRUS_FOUND' in /membri/starwiki/php5/wiki/includes/DefaultSettings.php on line 273 Notice: Use of undefined constant AV_SCAN_ABORTED - assumed 'AV_SCAN_ABORTED' in /membri/starwiki/php5/wiki/includes/DefaultSettings.php on line 274 Notice: Use of undefined constant AV_SCAN_FAILED - assumed 'AV_SCAN_FAILED' in /membri/starwiki/php5/wiki/includes/DefaultSettings.php on line 275 Notice: Use of undefined constant AV_NO_VIRUS - assumed 'AV_NO_VIRUS' in /membri/starwiki/php5/wiki/includes/DefaultSettings.php on line 286 Notice: Use of undefined constant AV_VIRUS_FOUND - assumed 'AV_VIRUS_FOUND' in /membri/starwiki/php5/wiki/includes/DefaultSettings.php on line 287 Notice: Use of undefined constant AV_VIRUS_FOUND - assumed 'AV_VIRUS_FOUND' in /membri/starwiki/php5/wiki/includes/DefaultSettings.php on line 288 Notice: Use of undefined constant AV_SCAN_FAILED - assumed 'AV_SCAN_FAILED' in /membri/starwiki/php5/wiki/includes/DefaultSettings.php on line 289 Warning: require_once(includes/ProfilerStub.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /membri/starwiki/php5/wiki/config/index.php on line 50 Fatal error: require_once [function.require]: Failed opening required 'includes/ProfilerStub.php' (include_path='.:/membri/starwiki/php5/wiki:/membri/starwiki/php5/wiki/includes:/membri/starwiki/php5/wiki/languages') in /membri/starwiki/php5/wiki/config/index.php on line 50 What was wrong?

Claudia —151.20.51.219 17:53, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

(OUTDATED) 500 Internal Server Error - HELP!

 * MediaWiki: 1.12.0
 * PHP: 5.2.2
 * MySQL: 5.0.45
 * URL: http://www.ohioart2.com/wikimotive

After uploading version 1.12.0, I changed the config dir to 777 and then opened my browser to the main index.php. I got the screen that had the sunflower logo and said "Mediawiki 1.12.0 please setup the wiki first". I clicked the link and then get this: "The server encountered an unexpected condition which prevented it from fulfilling the request. The script had an error or it did not produce any output. If there was an error, you should be able to see it in the error log."

From what I can find on searching google this is due to a function not supported by my hosting providers implementation of PHP5. Unfortunately I'm not seeing anywhere that tells me all the settings for PHP5. However I can modify my php.ini so I post it below. Any help would be greatly appreciated, THANKS

UPDATE: I removed the php.ini file since it seemingly was of little help. —PhilipHewitt 12:56, 11 April 2008 (UTC)


 * I am unsure how to check if mysqli is functioning...can anyone point to a quck script to test? -PhilipHewitt 13:12, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

(OUTDATED) PHP in MySqli

 * MediaWiki: 1.12.0
 * PHP: 5.2.5
 * MySQL: 4.1.20

Are PHPs built with mysqli supposed to work with MediaWiki? I have a PHP 5.2.5. built with with-mysqli instead of with-mysql and the config script insists it was built without Mysql support: "Could not find a suitable database driver!" Thanks.

Thanks.

—209.213.212.199 00:10, 12 April 2008 (UTC) —Wsanders14 00:15, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) error-message Class 'ParserOutput' not found after installing

 * MediaWiki: 1.12.0
 * PHP: 5.2.2
 * MySQL: 5.0.51
 * URL: http://www.familie-ahlers.de/wiki/index.php?title=Hauptseite

Hi, after installing the Wiki I get the following error-message:

''} } /** * Override the title to be used for display * -- this is assumed to have been validated * (check equal normalisation, etc.) * * @param string $text Desired title text */ public function setDisplayTitle( $text ) { $this->displayTitle = $text; } /** * Get the title to be used for display * * @return string */ public function getDisplayTitle { return $this->displayTitle; } /** * Fairly generic flag setter thingy. */ public function setFlag( $flag ) { $this->mFlags[$flag] = true; } public function getFlag( $flag ) { return isset( $this->mFlags[$flag] ); } }''

Fatal error: Class 'ParserOutput' not found in /mnt/web7/52/20/531620/htdocs/wiki/includes/Parser.php on line 211

Thx for your help,

Eicke


 * PS: After Installation into a different directory it works.
 * —89.182.143.192 17:03, 14 April 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) Fatal error: Class 'DOMDocument' not found

 * MediaWiki: 1.12.0
 * PHP: 5.0
 * MySQL: 4.1.21
 * URL: http://www.jamesrregan.com/mediawiki-1.12.0/index.php?title=Main_Page

Fatal error: Class 'DOMDocument' not found in /home/u4/moonman/html/mediawiki-1.12.0/includes/Preprocessor_DOM.php on line 566 —71.121.4.240 18:46, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide...I had the 1.11.1 version running just fine.

Regards,

Jim
 * See . i Alex  18:48, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

(OUTDATED) General installation question
How do I install this stuff? I have NO idea how to extract all of these fileS! :( PLEASE, help me, ASAP! :(

—65.12.97.249 21:35, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

(OUTDATED) Installation help!

 * MediaWiki: 1.10.0
 * PHP: 5.2.3
 * MySQL: 5.0.45

I'm trying to install your product on a Windows 2003 R3 Service Pack 2 server. I have IIS installed, I have installed 1.10.0 software for wiki, I have installed mysql 5.0.45 and php5.2.3. I am unable to bring up the very first page in a browser to set up my settings. I can only read the index.php files through notepad. On the manual it states to accomplish a virtual directory...do I need to do this? I'm confused as how to proceed from here.

Jason


 * I have managed to install the software and even get the index.php to read as a web page on my server. I'm using I.E 6.0 (is that a problem?) My Wiki is reporting that magic_quotes_runtime, magic_quotes_sybase and mbstring.func_overload need to be disabled. How does one do this? I'm not getting or able to create a LocalSettings.php file either. Any help would be appreciated.
 * Jason.

(RESOLVED) I'm just seeing a blank page

 * MediaWiki: 1.12.0
 * PHP: 5.1.6
 * url: (blank)

The installation page says the software has been installed successfully but the page it should be at  is blank. Any ideas what I need to change?


 * Did you delete the /config directory? Did you move LocalSettings.php from wherever it is to the nlpconnections.com/wiki/ directory?
 * If you have already done this, or do this and it does not work, delete everything and try reinstalling it. If you reinstall, I reccomend choosing a directory other than /wiki/.  If you want to have short urls appear to be in the "wiki" directory, a directory called "wiki" should not exist. Smaug  [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] 21:29, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
 * I have deleted those and reinstalled the whole thing twice - same problem every time. 89.243.226.53 12:28, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
 * I've tried it again as now and still the same. The config page says it's been installed successfully and gives a link to the wiki - but the page is blank. Any ideas? 78.147.158.252 13:07, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Localsettings.php is in the wiki directory (it is not automatically put there, you must ftp in and move it)? (I know I already asked this, but you didn't specify that you did it, so I thought I'd check.) Smaug  [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] 17:09, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes, I moved it into the wiki directory each time I installed it (four times now). I think I have to accept the script doesn't work on my server. 78.147.103.100 14:47, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Same problem, add this line to your LocaleSettings.php (solution is also described above)

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


 * Great advice! Adding this line to LocalSettings.php worked for me too, after 5 "blank page" installations.  I had the blank page problem with MediaWiki v1.12.0 and php 5.2.1. Thanks.

Hi,

I've the same problem. the post See #(RESOLVED) PHP Fatal error: Class 'DOMDocument' not found in /var/www/html/wiki/includes/Preprocessor_DOM.php on line 566. iAlex 18:48, 16 April 2008 (UTC) fixed it for me, but no the code to add in LocalSetting.php

(RESOLVED) Get error with install script
Get error with install script "Warning: shell_exec has been disabled for security reasons in /home/wouyy20/public_html/wiki/config/index.php on line 1822"

I am using MediaWiki 1.12.0, PHP 5.2.5, MySQL 5.0.45 When I run the install script, i get this error:

· PHP 5.2.5 installed · Found database drivers for: MySQL · PHP server API is cgi; 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 64M. · Couldn't find Turck MMCache, eAccelerator, APC or XCache; cannot use these for object caching.

Warning: shell_exec has been disabled for security reasons in /home/wouyy20/public_html/wiki/config/index.php on line 1822

What does this error mean? I already changed the /config folder permission to chmod 777, so it cant be it. I am on a shared hosting service.

—190.87.8.170 21:57, 25 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Possibly you php.ini has a line disable_functions =  and lists shell_exec. This means PHP will not execute these functions in *.php scripts. So may be check out your php.ini or just disregard that warning message. Regretable, my knowledge is not deep enough, if mediawiki needs that function for real or not. --92.117.246.245 12:10, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

(OUTDATED) SVN problem
where do I find a list of MediaWiki revisions so that I can pick and choose downloads from SVN?? Thanks, AP aka --82.42.237.84 21:46, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Have a look at http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/ or Important Release Notes perhaps? -- :bdk: 19:07, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) Neverending Redirection to Main_Page from all Pages

 * MediaWiki: 1.12.0
 * PHP: 5.1.6
 * MySQL: 5.0.27
 * URL: http://wiki.angermeier.net

Hello,

i have updated my Mediawiki from 1.8.0 to 1.12.0. Since this Update all Page Request redirect in an neverending loop to the Mainpage. I can not acces any other Pages, there all be redirectet to Main_Page.

Firefox reports an Redirection Error, IE Shows the Main_Page.

Can anythere help me?

Best Regards

Christain —217.188.193.73 11:38, 6 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Perhaps you have a URL rewriting scheme that is incompatible with the new version? Do you have $wgUsePathInfo set to true when it shouldn't be? —Emufarmers(T 01:06, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) index.php doesn't work

 * MediaWiki: 1.12.0
 * PHP: 5.0.3
 * MySQL: 4.0.24

at /wiki or /wiki/index.php i get a "Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in /home/www/sitename/wiki/includes/Exception.php on line 182" but wiki/index.php5 works fine how can i solve it cos it's a bit annoying [or at least redirect to php5 extension automatically]

thanks, Ran —217.10.38.61 18:52, 10 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Hello! I get a very similar error message when disabling php5 support at my web host (so it falls back to php4). The workaround to make php5 running used at my web host you may find here: http://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php/Wie_kann_festgelegt_werden_welcher_PHP_Interpreter_%28PHP4_oder_PHP5%29_.php_Files_ausfuehrt%3F Hope it will be useful. Regards -- 89.55.138.206 19:13, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

(OUTDATED) Warning: dba_open (...) [function.dba-open]: No such handler: db3 in BagOStuff.php on line 687

 * MediaWiki: 1.12.0
 * PHP: 5.2.5 (cgi)
 * MySQL: 4.0.27
 * URL: http://www.nrgpro.de/nrgwiki/index.php5

Multiple Lines of one Warning after Installation:

Warning: dba_open(/mnt/web1/42/45/51585545/htdocs/nrgpro/nrgwiki/images/tmp/mw-cache-DB300900-nrgwiki_.db,cl) [function.dba-open]: No such handler: db3 in /mnt/web1/42/45/51585545/htdocs/nrgpro/nrgwiki/includes/BagOStuff.php on line 687

After Installation of MediaWiki on each site of my wiki I get the above shown warning multiple times. Can you help me? Sorry if I'm asking somehow "blonde", I'm just a rookie...

—212.59.45.34 14:32, 14 May 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)

(OUTDATED) Full diffs in RSS/Atom

 * MediaWiki 	1.12.0
 * PHP 	5.2.5 (cgi)
 * MySQL 	5.0.44-log

Hi I just upgraded to 1.12.0 version of MediaWiki from 1.10.0. On the 1.10 version the RSS feed gave the full diff in two columns very comfortable to read in Brief. Since 1.12 only the title of the changes remains. How is it possible to have the full diff within 1.12 version ? I tried the Manual:$wgFeedDiffCutoff but without success. Thanks for your help.

--Dieudo 14:39, 8 May 2008 (UTC)


 * I have the same problem. :-( --92.226.145.63 01:11, 7 June 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. <font color="#006500">Smaug  [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] 21:11, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

(OUTDATED) Can non-English files in the /languages/messages/ folder be deleted before installation?

 * MediaWiki version = 1.12
 * PHP version = 5.2.5
 * MySQL Version = 5.0.45

Hi

My current test host does not support decompression of compressed archives which means that directories and files have to be uploaded manually. I want to install an English only version of MediaWiki but noticed that the the /languages/messages folder contains lots of non-English files. These take up over 18MB of space and will significantly increase file upload time. Can these files be successfully deleted before installation?

Thanks —161.112.232.22 13:28, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

(OUTDATED) PC installation of Mediawiki using XAMPP package

 * MediaWiki: 1.12
 * PHP: 5.2.4
 * MySQL: 5.0.45

I have a query on above subject. I intend to go for a simple standalone installation of mediawiki on my PC, which is already using XAMPP package to run an open source LMS, "Moodle". How can I configure the package to run Moodle as well as mediawiki? Prashant Dhodapkar, May 2008 pkdhodapkar@oilindia.in

(OUTDATED) After installation, strange effect appears...
Hello,

I have installed a mediawiki for my company. But I meet some strange error when I'm changing language preferences and at this moment in time, all my web searches are unsuccessful.

If language is set to English or Latin: it's all right. If language is set to an another (for example French or Deutch), some weird effects appears! For example Il n’y a pour l’instant aucun texte sur cette page ; vous pouvez rch/cer une recherche sur le titre de cette page, ]]rifier qu'elle n'a pas été [mée] ou [r cette page]. <

Anothers examples: Les préférences ont été sauvegardées.</str<ng></div< Cette page a été consultée

So many pages are broken... Have you seen this effect before and if someone has the solution, I will be truly grateful.

—Xfigpower 08:41, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Is there a link with the library PCRE 7.3? -- Xfigpower 12:59, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
 *  é  is reinterpreted as  é]  whereas e works! -- Xfigpower 13:02, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

I have the same problem since a few days after automatic update of openSUSE my pages look like this LTE --> wi th=" 0%" tyle="vertical-align:top" | <div <tyl <"ma <in:0; margin-right:10px; border:2px solid #dfdfdf; padding:0em 1em 1em 1em; background-color:#ffffdf;"> ==T ==n ==* == 31. 7. 1   00, ENG Gruppenbesprechung * Fr 01. 8., B 1.5-Runde * <s an<s yl<= co<or: rgb(255, 102, 0);">30.7. Rückgabe </span< </di< <</d< << << [[e < [[ ]]

(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 . <font color="#66A7CC">i <font color="#9966CC">Alex  14:13, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

(OUTDATED) Email-notification program: just sendmail?

 * MediaWiki: 1.11.0
 * PHP: 5.2.5
 * MySQL: 5.0.51

Hello! Is there any chance to use the built-in email functions of MediaWiki with another program than sendmail? (Company prefers use of Lotus Notes ... *sigh*) Thanks for reply!

—213.30.234.106 16:20, 27 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)

(OUTDATED) Error when starting installation
I get following here when installing: Please include all of the lines below when reporting installation problems.

PHP 5.2.6 installed Could not find a suitable database driver! For MySQL, compile PHP using --with-mysql, or install the mysql.so module For PostgreSQL, compile PHP using --with-pgsql, or install the pgsql.so module —60.243.51.66 04:34, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

(OUTDATED) Trouble installing
I uploaded the files, but rec'd this error when I went to the config folder to finish installing:

PHP 5.0.0 or higher is required. If PHP 5 is available only when PHP files have a .php5 extension, please navigate to index.php5 to continue installation. ABORTING.

I have:
 * 1) Server version: 5.0.45-community
 * 2) Protocol version: 10
 * 3) Server: Localhost via UNIX socket
 * 4) MySQL charset: UTF-8 Unicode (utf8)

when I browse to index.php5, in prompts me to download.

What do I do now?

- Doone —151.203.109.89 14:39, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

(OUTDATED) GoDaddy

 * MediaWiki: ?
 * PHP: 5.0
 * MySQL: not sure what you need to know
 * URL: http://www.OnlineSurvivalGear.com/EdibleandMedicinalplants

I am trying to install and construct a wikipedia like product (mediawiki) on my GoDaddy account, the PHP version I run is 5.0 and I'm using MySQL. I am wondering if there is a video tutorial kind of deal to help me get going as this program doesn't seem to be very intuitive to me. My GoDaddy account says that the software is installed but the website says I need additional software so I am confused. Please help. Thanks,

—204.134.193.86 17:56, 2 June 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. <font color="#006500">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

(OUTDATED) install freezes up
when i run the install i get to here:

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 * Found database drivers for: MySQL PostgreSQL Warning: PHP's register_globals option is enabled. Disable it if you can. MediaWiki will work, but your server is more exposed to PHP-based security vulnerabilities. * PHP server API is apache2handler; ok, using pretty URLs (index.php/Page_Title) * Have XML / Latin1-UTF-8 conversion support. * Session save path (/tmp) appears to be valid. * PHP's memory_limit is 8M. Attempting to raise limit to 20M... ok. * 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: /opt/lampp/htdocs/aaw/mediawiki-1.12.0 * Script URI path: /aaw/mediawiki-1.12.0 * 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...success. * Connected to 5.0.51a * Attempting to create database... * Created database wikidb4 * Creating tables... done. * Initializing statistics...   * Granting user permissions to wikiuser on wikidb4...success.

and then no further

trying to access the wiki after this brings me back to the installation page

—196.207.32.37 08:59, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

(OUTDATED) How to declare value of $conf->Sitename?

 * MediaWiki: 1.12.0
 * PHP: 5.2.6
 * MySQL: 5.0.51b

I want to automatically configure a wiki, that is, I don't want the user to have to go through config/index.php page. I can set the input for the forms by adding to the empty quotes. For example, if I want the table prefix to my wiki to be $prefix, then I change $conf->DBprefix= importPost("DBprefix", ""); to $conf->DBprefix = importPost( "DBprefix", $prefix );. For some reason I can't do this for Sitename. Adding anything in the empty quotes of $conf->Sitename = importPost( "Sitename", "" ); gives me a blank page. Can someone please help!??

—Malatorr 23:02, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

(OUTDATED) Problem with installation - table creation

 * MediaWiki: 1.6.8
 * PHP: PHP 4.3.10
 * MySQL: 4.1.10a
 * URL: http://docs.propheticpassion.de

When I try to install MediaWiki, I get the following error message:

Creating job table...Query "CREATE TABLE `job` (  job_id int(9) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment,   job_cmd varchar(255) NOT NULL default ,   job_namespace int NOT NULL,   job_title varchar(255) binary NOT NULL,   job_params blob NOT NULL default ,   PRIMARY KEY job_id (job_id),   KEY (job_cmd, job_namespace, job_title)   ) TYPE=InnoDB  " failed with error code "Specified key was too long; max key length is 1024 bytes (localhost)".

—89.14.213.31 16:07, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

(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)

(OUTDATED) "loss of session data" error

 * MediaWiki: 1.12.0
 * PHP: 5.2.5 (isapi)
 * MySQL: 5.0.51a-community-nt
 * URL: http://www.maplibrary.org.uk/community2/index.php

This is a fresh mediawiki installation. When not looged on I can edit, but when logged on (as admin) I get this error:

'''Sorry! We could not process your edit due to a loss of session data. Please try again. If it still doesn't work, try logging out and logging back in.'''

The same applies when I try and do any operation such as protect a page.

I have also noticed that at the log-in page unless I tick the "Remember my login on this computer" as soon as I navigate away it seems to log-out - i.e. the login name is no longer displayed at the top.

(OUTDATED) installing mediawiki to work with a existing database

 * MediaWiki: (Reported by your Wiki's Special:Version page)
 * PHP: 5.1
 * MySQL: 5.0
 * URL: RoFWiki

Hello i been looking for a guide on installing media wiki with an exsisting database.I have a database of username and password i would prefer to use. my database is simple thee is NO md5 hash Just simple user name and password. Thank you

—69.125.59.61 07:05, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

(OUTDATED) Linux Help!

 * MediaWiki: cant access [v1.9.3]
 * PHP: 4 by default but can use 5 by making a .htaccess file
 * MySQL: 5
 * URL: wiki.hackergrounds com

Install MediaWiki on Linux 5.1 Enterprise Can somebody help me with installing MediaWiki. I have never used Linux, I have used Unix. I'm not sure how to install it.

I get this after install: on index

getVal( 'action', 'view' ); $title = $wgRequest->getVal( 'title' ); $wgTitle = $mediaWiki->checkInitialQueries( $title,$action,$wgOut, $wgRequest, $wgContLang ); if ($wgTitle == NULL) { unset( $wgTitle ); } # # Send Ajax requests to the Ajax dispatcher. # if ( $wgUseAjax && $action == 'ajax' ) { require_once( $IP . '/includes/AjaxDispatcher.php' ); $dispatcher = new AjaxDispatcher; $dispatcher->performAction; $mediaWiki->restInPeace( $wgLoadBalancer ); exit; } wfProfileOut( 'main-misc-setup' ); # Setting global variables in mediaWiki $mediaWiki->setVal( 'Server', $wgServer ); $mediaWiki->setVal( 'DisableInternalSearch', $wgDisableInternalSearch ); $mediaWiki->setVal( 'action', $action ); $mediaWiki->setVal( 'SquidMaxage', $wgSquidMaxage ); $mediaWiki->setVal( 'EnableDublinCoreRdf', $wgEnableDublinCoreRdf ); $mediaWiki->setVal( 'EnableCreativeCommonsRdf', $wgEnableCreativeCommonsRdf ); $mediaWiki->setVal( 'CommandLineMode', $wgCommandLineMode ); $mediaWiki->setVal( 'UseExternalEditor', $wgUseExternalEditor ); $mediaWiki->setVal( 'DisabledActions', $wgDisabledActions ); $wgArticle = $mediaWiki->initialize ( $wgTitle, $wgOut, $wgUser, $wgRequest ); $mediaWiki->finalCleanup ( $wgDeferredUpdateList, $wgLoadBalancer, $wgOut ); # Not sure when $wgPostCommitUpdateList gets set, so I keep this separate from finalCleanup $mediaWiki->doUpdates( $wgPostCommitUpdateList ); $mediaWiki->restInPeace( $wgLoadBalancer ); ?> —62.231.248.122 21:55, 23 June 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)

(OUTDATED) Upgrade not working due to DataBase error

 * MediaWiki: Upgrade from 1.6.6 to 1.12.0
 * PHP: 5.2.6 (cgi-fcgi)
 * MySQL: 4.1.22-standard
 * URL: The Gredil

Hi there, I am attempting to upgrade my Wiki from 1.6.6 to 1.12. I have followed all the instructions on the upgrade page. I used Alternative 2 (the web installer) because none of the servers I have access to have php installed with the --with-mysql option (not default behaviour for ANY php install I might add! I'm yet to see a hosting service that has this). After doing the web installer I got to the page that checks your settings and then got the Ok at the bottom but when clicking on the site I got...

Database error A database query syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software. The last attempted database query was: (SQL query hidden) from within function "User::edits". MySQL returned error "1054: Unknown column 'user_editcount' in 'field list' (213.171.218.248)".

Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks,

—TheGredil 14:01, 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

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...

(OUTDATED) Login-Problem - MediaWiki can't find the cookies it has written...

 * MediaWiki: 1.6 / 1.12
 * PHP: 4 / 5
 * MySQL: 4.1.13 / 5.0.26
 * URL: http://mailingpark.dion.de/index.php/Hauptseite

After a successful install of both 1.6 and 1.12 on servers meeting the needed software environment (PHP / MySQL) both version do not allow me to log in always asking me to enable cookies... Problem: 1. cookies are already enabled and i find them in the respective folder of every browser (UserName, UserID) 2. Same Problem from different clients (firewalled, not firewalled, virusscanner, no virusscanner, proxy, no proxy...)

Bottom Line: MediaWiki manages to write cookies but not to read them...

—91.10.238.45 07:56, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

(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)

(OUTDATED) Active Directory Authentication
In the installation instructions for installing mediawiki on a Windows 2003 server I read this "Hint: If you plan on using Active Directory authentication later on, be sure to select “LDAP”, “OpenSSL” and “MCrypt” now."

So I did but now I want to know how to configure mediawiki to use the AD for user authentication. Could you explain me how to configure this?

—62.108.11.45 20:43, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

(OUTDATED) SiteConfiguration.php causing problems

 * MediaWiki: 1.10.0
 * PHP: 5.2.6
 * MySQL: 5.0.51
 * URL: http://ptwiki.benben27.centelia.net/index.php/Main_Page

I'm trying to upgrade to 1.12.0 but when I do it says this

Warning: require_once(includes/SiteConfiguration.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/benben27/public_html/ptwiki/includes/DefaultSettings.php on line 30 Fatal error: require_once [function.require]: Failed opening required 'includes/SiteConfiguration.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/benben27/public_html/ptwiki/includes/DefaultSettings.php on line 30 Any ideas?

—Arwell 23:07, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) How to Install MediaWiki on Windows Server 2008

 * MediaWiki: 1.12
 * PHP: 5.2.6 NTS
 * MySQL: 5.1.25
 * URL: A Step-by-Step online video tutorial

—205.196.210.181 17:47, 15 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)

(OUTDATED) mbstring.func_overload problem

 * MediaWiki: The Latest
 * PHP: 5.0
 * MySQL: 5.0
 * URL: url

Hi. I'm trying to install MediaWiki on societeg server. When I run the install script, there are 3 lines like that:

* PHP 5.2.3-0.dotdeb.1 installed * Found database drivers for: MySQL PostgreSQL * Fatal: mbstring.func_overload is active! This option causes errors and may corrupt data unpredictably; you cannot install or use    MediaWiki unless this option is disabled.

All is good, except the last line. I don't know how to set mbstring.func_overload inactive, and I don't know what it is. So I need help.

Thank you

Yann —66.131.215.191 18:28, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) Language problems
I have the Danish version installed, and this seems to give me some problems. It is rather hard to know how the special features was translated. Say, Special:RecentChanges was translated into Speciel:Seneste_ændringer - but is there some way to see the translations, cause this could well have been translated in other ways. --Asset 18:53, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Have a look at MessagesDa.php and perhaps also at translatewiki.net. -- :bdk: 19:07, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

(OUTDATED) MySQL Database Authentication Problem

 * MediaWiki: 1.12.0
 * PHP: 5.2.4
 * MySQL: 5.0.24a
 * URL: Company Intranet

In the Database Config section of installation, MediaWiki asks for the MySQL database name, username, and password.

I provide all of this information, but then I click the install button, I keep getting an error telling me to check the username and password. I don't get it. I followed installation instructions explicitly.

My MySQL commands are as follows: mysqladmin -u root -p create wikidb mysql -u root -p -e "GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wikidb.* TO wikiuser IDENTIFIED BY 'wiki_password'" mysql -u root -p -e "SET PASSWORD FOR wikiuser = OLD_PASSWORD('wiki_password')" mysql -u root -p -e "FLUSH PRIVILEGES" Where I've changed "wikiuser" and "wiki_password" to something more appropriate. The syntax is fine, and no typos exist. I enter the information letter for letter in the Database Config section, and I still receive the password authentication error, and for the life of me, I cannot figure out why.

Chris at MFS.

—72.85.252.217 19:57, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) Upgrading to MW 1.12 without shell access

 * MediaWiki: 1.12.0
 * PHP: 5.1.6 (apache2filter)
 * MySQL: 4.1.20
 * URL: http://en.wiki-products.org

I updated the english version of our wiki from Version 1.11 to 1.12. Since we don't have shell access and "proc_open" is disabled by our hosting company, there was only "Alternative 2" left. So I copied all the files of the 1.12-version into the existing folders of our wiki. In that way old files were replaced but things like extensions and images were kept. Everything worked fine but after running the installation there was a fatal error when browsing the wiki. It said: "Fatal error: Call to undefined method ParserOptions::enableLimitReport in /home/httpd/vhosts/wiki-products.org/subdomains/en/httpdocs/includes/Article.php on line 3172". Since i didn't know what to make of that, I replaced "Article.php" with the old 1.11-version (lucky me, I did the back-up before) and now things seem to be running fine again. However, before I go on to upgrade the much larger (and more important) german version of our wiki, I would like to be sure, that this is the way to do it and that no further problems will emerge from this. Thanks for helping!

—Gollum 11:11, 23 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Just to let you know. This problem was resolved by upgrading to Mediawiki 1.13 . My best, --Gollum 11:15, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

(OUTDATED) Once installed via ftp, I cannot continue configuration thru /config/index.php

 * MediaWiki: v1.12.0
 * PHP: PHP5
 * MySQL: 5.0.45
 * URL: http://wiki.php5.ict-idcollege.nl/

Hi,

I've installed MediaWiki on the Host (MediaWiki v1.12.0, PHP5, MySQL 5.0.45) of our school. 'Feel a bit a newb (which I am) but I do hope someone can help me with this. Anyway, I have installed via ftp, and can get to the index.php script in public_html by entering the above URL. All directories and scrips seem to be in place, I've set the file attributes of the /config folder to '777'.

I then get to see the initial index.php in the root. Once I click on the 'Please set up the wiki first.' link (which should redirect me to /config/index.php), I get to the 'Admin' login screen of my Host. Does this somehow ring a bell to you?

Thanks for your help in this. Erik Coolen, The Netherlands (ecoolen@ict-idcollege.nl) —82.169.26.209 11:22, 23 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) Weird sudden failure of wiki

 * MediaWiki: very latest version (just installed a few days ago)
 * PHP: 5.2.5
 * MySQL: 5.0.45-community-log
 * URL: http://wiki/berrysoft.net

I changed nothing on my server, and now when I go to my wiki (http://wiki.berrysoft.net) I get this: Warning: require_once(/home/berrysof/public_html/wiki/extensions/InterWikiLinkManager/InterWikiLinkManager.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/berrysof/public_html/wiki/LocalSettings.php on line 138

Fatal error: require_once [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/berrysof/public_html/wiki/extensions/InterWikiLinkManager/InterWikiLinkManager.php' (include_path='/home/berrysof/public_html/wiki:/home/berrysof/public_html/wiki/includes:/home/berrysof/public_html/wiki/languages:.:/usr/local/php52/pear') in /home/berrysof/public_html/wiki/LocalSettings.php on line 138 I have no clue what to do!

Patrick Waugh Berrysoft Studios —98.211.63.103 20:09, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
 * There is a line in your  that says  . However, the file it's referring to doesn't exist. Either correct the line to refer to the right file, or remove the line altogether. --Catrope 09:01, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

(OUTDATED) No install directory

 * No install directory in /usr/share/doc/mediawiki-x.y.z/INSTALL on fedora 9

On fedora 9 i ran yum install mediawiki. Install went well, but there was suppose to be

"After installation, open the file /usr/share/doc/mediawiki-x.y.z/INSTALL.fedora and follow the instructions there."

The only dirs. were.

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17997 2008-03-03 01:05 COPYING -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   162 2008-03-03 01:05 FAQ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 211867 2008-03-03 01:05 HISTORY -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  3535 2008-03-03 01:05 README -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29739 2008-03-03 01:05 RELEASE-NOTES -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12816 2008-03-03 01:05 UPGRADE

--July 2008

(RESOLVED) Empty page after installing Wiki

 * MediaWiki: 1.1.2
 * PHP: 5.2.6
 * MySQL: 5.0.51a
 * URL: Wiki

Changed my hosting to PHP5. Trying to install wiki - setup goes just fine, with info about moving LocalSettings.php to directory above... After i moved it, and pointing to mysite/wiki - just empty page goes out. No errors, no warnings. Empty page.

Solved as described above: LocalSettings.php add: $wgParserConf['preprocessorClass'] = 'Preprocessor_Hash';

—82.179.222.150 15:55, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

(OUTDATED) Don't create localsettings.php after to click install mediawiki button

 * MediaWiki: mediawiki-1.11.2
 * PHP: PHP5.2.5 Zend Optimizer
 * MySQL: MySQL 5.0.45
 * URL: ...

Hi~!

I have a question.

When I try to install mediawiki in my PC, do not create localsettings.php

When I have clicked install button for installing mediawiki, I.E window shutdowned.

What I have to do for install mediawiki?

—210.127.34.1 03:37, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) Install Error

 * MediaWiki: Version MediaWiki 1.12.0
 * PHP: Version 5.2.6
 * MySQL: Not using MySQL - using Postgres version 8.3.3
 * URL: http://localhost:9372/wiki/config/index.php

Install Error: Call to undefined function pg_escape_string in /var/www/html/wiki/includes/DatabasePostgres.php

I'm not able to install and configure MediaWiki. My system configuration is running RedHat Linux release 4, and the initial page reports the following: PHP 5.2.6 installed Found database drivers for: PostgreSQL PHP server API is apache2handler; ok, using pretty URLs (index.php/Page_Title) Have XML / Latin1-UTF-8 conversion support. Warning: A value for session.save_path has not been set in PHP.ini. If the default value causes problems with saving session data, set it to a valid path which is read/write/execute for the user your web server is running under. PHP's memory_limit is 128M. 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. Installation directory: /var/www/html/wiki Script URI path: /wiki Installing MediaWiki with php file extensions Environment checked. You can install MediaWiki. I can enter the configuration screen, but it crashes with the following message Generating configuration file.. Database type: PostgreSQL Loading class: DatabasePostgres Attempting to connect to database "postgres" as superuser "postgres"... Checking the version of Postgres...version 8.3 is OK.

Fatal error: Call to undefined function pg_escape_string in /var/www/html/wiki/includes/DatabasePostgres.php on line 1215 I've never used PHP and have absolutely no idea what this means. :^(

I don't know if it's relevant, but one of the problems I had was in setting up PHP5; RHEL4 doesn't have an installable package, so I created it from source using the instructions at: http://www.blazonry.com/scripting/install_apache.php#dso

Roger —198.152.70.2 14:30, 6 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi, Has anybody got any ideas about this?
 * 198.152.70.2 07:30, 11 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi, I'm adding another comment to keep this question live. Cheers
 * 198.152.70.2 07:33, 15 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Help anybody?
 * 198.152.70.2 08:03, 21 August 2008 (UTC)


 * You don't have PostgreSQL support in PHP, so you need to recompile PHP, this time with PostgreSQL support enabled. --Catrope 09:03, 7 September 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) Upgrade from MW 1.11.0 to 1.12.0

 * MediaWiki: Version MediaWiki 1.11.0 & 1.12.0
 * PHP: Version 5.2.5
 * MySQL: using MySQL 5.0

I tried the upgrade of MediaWiki on my computer (before to do it on the real server). I used the Alternative #2, because I don't have shell access on the final server. Whatever, everything seems to go well (no error message during the "installation"), but the wiki is then unavailable : there is only one white page without errors. What's the problem then ? What can I do ? :-(

Matt84 12:11, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
 * A blank page mean that there's a PHP error, but hidden. See How to debug to enable error reporting and then come back with the error message. <font color="#66A7CC">i <font color="#9966CC">Alex  21:25, 16 August 2008 (UTC)


 * seems ok now. Thanks. Matt84 19:53, 3 September 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)


 * or comment out in LocalSettings.php any form of caching--124.104.16.254 20:33, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) New Namespace edit goes to edit of Talk page
I have set up a special namespace. But when I try to edit a page the session opens as a talk page, and when I go to the actual page, the talk page opens!

Installed
 * Configure (Version 0.5.7) 	Allow authorised users to configure the wiki by a web-based interface 	Alexandre Emsenhuber Parser hooks
 * EmbedVideo (Version 0.1.2) 	Adds a parser function aembedding video from popular sources. 	Jim R. Wilson - wilson.jim.r<at>gmail.com
 * Google Co-op Extension 	Using Google Co-op 	Liang Chen The BiGreat
 * NiceCategoryList 	generate a category page showing all pages in a category, including subcategories 	Kichik, Johan the Ghost Andre
 * GoogleTranslate (Version 0.2) 	Ajax-based link translation that translates edittext from/to via GoogleTranslate 	Per Feldvoss Olsen

--August 2008


 * Please ensure that you gave your custom namespace an even number, that it has an associated talk page whose number is exactly one higher (and therefore odd), and that the namespace numbers are 100 or higher. --Catrope 09:05, 7 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Please give your Wiki info and then you may un-mark this topic from RESOLVED status. -PatPeter [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]]  MediaWiki Support Team  17:55, 20 September 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.

(RESOLVED) Old versions of Mediawiki?

 * MediaWiki: 1.13.0
 * PHP: 5.2.6 (cgi)
 * MySQL: 5.0.51a-community
 * URL: (in development)

Do we have old versions of Mediawiki somewhere? I had 1.9.3 and when I upgraded to 1.13.0, it gives me an "illegal mix of collations" error, when I view Page logs. I thought I'd try incrementally upgrading the software to see if that would work. —Kenny5 04:11, 25 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Are you looking for a list such as Important Release Notes? Manual:Upgrading to 1.13 could help too. -- :bdk: 19:06, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

(OUTDATED) riesige Magick-Dateien werden erstellt (German)

 * MediaWiki version: 1.10.1
 * PHP version: 5.2.6
 * MySQL version: 5.0.37
 * URL: http://www.wikiwaldhof.de

Hallo, habe ein Megagroßes Problem und mein Provider will mir sogar kündigen wenn ich dieses Problem nicht behebe. Habe eine MediaWiki-version 1.10.1 mit ca. 10.000 Seiten und 2.300 Bilder.

Mein Account wurde von goneo inzwischen schon bestimmt zum 20 mal gesperrt, weil übergroße Dateien im Temporären Verzeichnis /tmp (Linux) abgelegt werden.

So wie es ausschaut sind dies Dateien von ImageMagick

Beispiel: > -rw--- 1 12242f422 wheel 1.5G Oct 8 04:48 magick-IoHUlkZS > -rw--- 1 12242f422 wheel 1.5G Oct 8 04:47 magick-PqaESSJn ... Ich weiß wirklich nicht wo diese herkommen und wie ich das Problem beseitigen kann. Hat jemand eine Idee für mich??? Kann ich zum Beispiel auch die neuste Version installieren so das meine Daten nicht verloren gehen? Es war ja schließlich sehr viel arbeit, die auch umfangreich genutzt wird.

components vom mediawiki:

Ald-Hjl-Koord-de.kmz Call Cite DynamicPageList EmbedURL.php ExtensionFunctions.php Inputbox ParserFunctions Picasa2 Picasa2.php Player RateArticle.php Ratings SearchSuggest Wgraph WikiChat.php YouTubeTag.php audio-player audio-player.php dewplayer.swf firestats firestats-mediawiki.php flashmp3.php gallery googleVideo.php lmo mp3.php tab5.php urlify.php wikipdf

Ich würde Euch sehr danken.

Viele Grüße Stefan

(OUTDATED) Cleaning up after upgrade to 1.13.1?

 * MediaWiki 1.13.1
 * PHP 5.2.4 (apache2handler)
 * MySQL 5.0.45-community-nt

Ok so I have updated my wiki using the update.php. I noticed some changes that I had made to "specialcontributions.php" were not having the effect I was after. So I have now found that the special files have been moved to a folder called "Specials" within the "includes" folder. This tells me that a number of files have been moved and I now have duplicates! Is there a way to do a "clean up" after an update? Thanks -Joel 10:18, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

(OUTDATED) Receiving a PHP Fatal Error: Class 'WebRequest' not found in includes/Setup.php

 * MediaWiki: 1.13.0
 * PHP: 5.2.5
 * MySQL: 5.0.51a-community
 * URL: CellAO

I'm receiving an error

Fatal error: Class 'WebRequest' not found in /home/pastxter/public_html/cellao/includes/Setup.php on line 147

When I click the "Install MediaWiki!" button after the initial checks have completed. I'm not sure why this is happening

$wgRequest = new WebRequest; is Line 147

It's like AutoLoader.php doesn't actually include includes\WebRequest.php like it seems to be supposed to

-Charles —207.232.113.236 04:27, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) Vulnerability that needs to be fixed
me and some friends were scanning my site and found a vulnerability. please fix it...

/index.php?title=Main_Page&action=edit&gen=js&useskin=>"><ScRiPt%20%0a%0d>alert(398498917898)%3B</ScRiPt>

--68.91.112.121 25 August 2008


 * Please give your site info and un-mark this topic as resolved if you want help. -PatPeter [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]]  MediaWiki Support Team  17:47, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) Fatal: mbstring.func_overload is active! Cannot install MediaWiki...

 * MediaWiki version: 1.13.0
 * PHP version: 5.2.6
 * MySQL version: 5.0.51a-community

I would like to install Mediawiki on my shared HostServer. I cannot install mediawiki and have this fatal error : MediaWiki 1.13.0 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 5.2.6 installed Found database drivers for: MySQL Fatal: mbstring.func_overload is active! This option causes errors and may corrupt data unpredictably; you cannot install or use MediaWiki unless this option is disabled. Cannot install MediaWiki.

How can I Resolve this problem ?

—Phillev 20:42, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

Follows these steps if you can not access to httpd.conf and php.ini from you Shared HostServer:
 * Create php.ini file in you public_html/ Home folder or www/
 * Add in your .htaccess : suPHP_ConfigPath /home/VOTREUSER/public_html/php.ini
 * Add in your php.ini : Magic_quotes_gpc = off

This should work (works in my case)

--Phillev 10:45, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

(OUTDATED) putenv Warning because of safe mode

 * MediaWiki version: 1.13.0
 * PHP version: 5.0.5-3 (cgi-fcgi)
 * The server uses PHP 5 only for files with the .php5 extension


 * MySQL version: 4.1.15-Debian_1
 * URL: http://derjoo.de/ffd

Safemode problem:
 * Warning: putenv [function.putenv]: Safe Mode warning: Cannot set environment variable 'LC_CTYPE' - it's not in the allowed list in /home/www/web2542/html/derjoo/ffd/includes/Setup.php on line 121

what happens if i just delete that putenv? i didnt even understand what LC_CTYPE does... thank you very much!!!

derjoo —84.168.65.36 10:35, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

Similar problem

 * MediaWiki version: 1.13.1
 * PHP version: 5.1.6 (apache2handler)
 * MySQL version: 5.0.27-Debian_0.dotdeb.1
 * URL:

I'm getting an error:

Warning: putenv [function.putenv]: Safe Mode warning: Cannot set environment variable 'LC_CTYPE' - it's not in the allowed list in /wiki/includes/Setup.php on line 121

Where can I stop the PHP from trying to set the variable?

—Jbbdude 21:37, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

The same problem

 * MediaWiki version: 1.13.1
 * PHP version: 5.2.0-8+etch10 (apache2handler)
 * MySQL version: 5.0.32-Debian_7etch5-log
 * URL: http://www.cibersociedad.net/congreso2009/w/

I have exactly the same problem as above in includes/Setup.php on line 121 ;( --Esenabre 11:20, 15 September 2008 (UTC).


 * What I've done is to comment the following lines and now it works (I don't know unitil when, though :) --Esenabre 13:19, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

/** Workaround for http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=45132 escapeshellarg destroys non-ASCII characters if LANG is not a UTF-8 locale putenv( 'LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8' ); setlocale( LC_CTYPE, 'en_US.UTF-8' ); if ( !class_exists( 'AutoLoader' ) ) { require_once( "$IP/includes/AutoLoader.php" ); } */

The same problem
As its only a warning you can put an @ in front of the putenv/setenv lines and this will suppress the error messages.

(OUTDATED) Wiki installed nut ow I am stuck - please help!

 * MediaWiki version: 1.13.1
 * PHP version: 5
 * MySQL version: 4.1.22
 * URL: http://www.cocardsynergy.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

Here are the error messages I see on my page:

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach in /home/sptrobb/public_html/cocardsynergy/wiki/languages/Language.php on line 2310 Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach in /home/sptrobb/public_html/cocardsynergy/wiki/languages/Language.php on line 2310 Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach in /home/sptrobb/public_html/cocardsynergy/wiki/includes/SpecialPage.php on line 218

I am totally lost and have no idea what to do to remedy this. An anyone help?

Robb Lejuwaan robbl@cocardsynergy.com —75.16.34.92 21:06, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

(OUTDATED) Parse error

 * MediaWiki version: 1.13
 * PHP version: 5.26
 * MySQL version: 5
 * URL: www.simpatico.com.qa/wiki

Using filezilla i gave 777 permission to the whole wiki folder. yet when I try to access www.simpatico.com.qa/wiki I get Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in /home/simpatic/public_html/wiki/includes/Defines.php on line 58

What to do? –78.100.2.3 03:24, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) CommonSettings.php
I can install MediaWiki properly, and have done so multiple times, however, trying to get CommonSettings.php to work is a nightmare for me. I really have no idea how to do this and would appreciate your help. I tried a few times but don't know how to get it to work in LocalSettings.php Thanks, AC —82.42.237.84 21:35, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
 * MediaWiki version: SVN repository
 * PHP version:
 * MySQL version:
 * URL: Localhost, for testing purposes


 * Please give your Wiki info and then you may un-mark this topic from RESOLVED status. -PatPeter [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]]  MediaWiki Support Team  17:56, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

(OUTDATED) User access denied during installation.

 * MediaWiki version: 1.13.1
 * PHP version: PHP 5.2.6
 * MySQL version: MySQL5
 * URL: http://electroharmonix.ronsound.com

I keep getting the following error when attempting to install:

'''# Connected to 5.0.45-log; enabling MySQL 4.1/5.0 charset mode * Error selecting database wikidb: 1044 Access denied for user 'wikiuser'@'%' to database 'wikidb

I have the database created and the wikiuser is setup for all privileges. Can you explain what I'm doing wrong?

—75.62.114.48 18:24, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) Can't use HTML within $wgSiteNotice after upgrading to MW 1.13

 * MediaWiki version: 1.13
 * PHP version: 5
 * MySQL version: 5
 * URL: localhost

Hi all,

after upgrading my Mediawiki from 1.7.1 to 1.13 I can't use any HTML tags within the $wgSiteNotice variable. Only output I get is the raw text I inputted like

 <a href='http://localhost/dewiki/index.php?title=Avelgem&action=purge&knowledge=1><img src='http://localhost/dewiki/skins/common/images/pro.png' border='0' alt='gute Kenntnisse'></a> 

Localsettings.php is the same as before the update. I also updated the ParserFunctions extension but I'm not sure if my problem is connected to this extension. Did I forget to update any other files?

Any ideas? Every kind of help is appreciated!

Regards,

Maziminke 15:32, 18 September 2008 (UTC)


 * $wgSiteNotice started taking wikitext instead of raw HTML in MediaWiki 1.9 "for consistency with editable MediaWiki:Sitenotice and MediaWiki:Anonnotice." It seems like it went back and forth between wikitext and HTML in past versions, so you could make a request on bugzilla if you think the current functionality isn't sufficient. —Emufarmers(T 23:20, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your help. This totally explains the behavior but is a bad message for me since it means recoding lots of code.
 * You mentioned to put a request to mediawiki's bugzilla system but do you think anyone will care for a single user's opinion? What do you think about implementing a switch to enable/disable HTML at $wgSiteNotice? Since both functionalities should be somehow implemented this would be a nice way to keep HTML working when updating!?
 * Thanks once more for your help, Maziminke 23:56, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Can anyone give me any hints how to use HTML at $wgSiteNotice using mediawiki 1.13? I urgently need this feature since I have to change lots of code elsewise. Can't I just replace some files with older ones? Maziminke 02:01, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

I have recoded everything... (Maziminke)

(RESOLVED) Sharing MySQL Database with other Applications

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

I want to install MediaWiki on a site that only has one database, currently in use by the Joomla Content Management System. MediaWiki will be installed on a subdirectory of the site. I understand that when I install MediaWiki I will need to use a Database table prefix (for example wik_) since Joomla is installed under jos_. Is there anything else I need to do so that the installation of MediaWiki does not interfere with the tables already in my MySQL database?

Thank you!

—190.87.104.78 21:50, 18 September 2008 (UTC)


 * When using different prefixes everything should work fine. Maziminke 23:50, 18 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Please give your Wiki info and then you may un-mark this topic from RESOLVED status. -PatPeter [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]]  MediaWiki Support Team  17:59, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) PHP 5.2.6 Error

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

—66.117.231.194 15:44, 19 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Please give your Wiki info and then you may un-mark this topic from RESOLVED status. -PatPeter [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]]  MediaWiki Support Team  17:59, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

(OUTDATED) PHP Error After Install

 * MediaWiki version: 1.13.1
 * PHP version: 5.1.6
 * MySQL version: 5.0.27
 * URL: wiki.cis-elsalvador.org

I tried installing once, but got the following error Fatal error: Class 'LinkCache' not found in /var/www/wiki/includes/Title.php on line 1968

After replacing that file, I installed again. This time I got an "installation successful" message. After installing, I get the following error message: Fatal error: Class 'LinkCache' not found in /var/www/wiki/includes/Article.php on line 366

Tried replacing the file but that did not work.

—Arrbug 20:47, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) Doesn't load homepage

 * MediaWiki version: 1.13.1
 * PHP version: 5.2.6
 * MySQL version: 5.0.51a-community
 * URL: http://danfarrell.heliohost.org/wiki

Right now all I get when I go to my main page is:

Warning: require_once(/home/dan/public_html/wiki/includes/WebStart.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/dan/public_html/wiki/index.php on line 40 Fatal error: require_once [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/dan/public_html/wiki/includes/WebStart.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/dan/public_html/wiki/index.php on line 40

What do I do? I have put all the files onto the server at /wiki, and created the MySQL database. I also changed the permissions of 0777 on wiki/config

—218.101.69.55 09:40, 20 September 2008 (UTC)


 * You are missing a file (or possibly several files). Get the download package onto your server and untar it there; do not upload the files individually unless you have no other choice. —Emufarmers(T 23:07, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

(OUTDATED) Authentication errors

 * MediaWiki version: 1.13.0
 * PHP version: 5.2.6
 * MySQL version: xampp-win32-1.6.7-installer.exe
 * URL: local installation

I have Problems with the MediWiki-Installation at the server: 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. ... Problems with the Superuser account: Check username and password
 * Working system: Windows XP, SP2

Detailed Error report: de:File:MediaWiki 1.13.0 Installation.pdf

—212.203.91.124 15:20, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

(OUTDATED) Setup – mysql-error: blob can't have default

 * MediaWiki version: 1.7.1
 * PHP version: 5.2.0
 * MySQL version: 5.0.32
 * URL: intranet-only

Here is the output from the setup-script: * PHP 5.2.0-8+etch11 installed * Found database drivers for: MySQL * PHP server API is apache2handler; ok, using pretty URLs (index.php/Page_Title) * Have XML / Latin1-UTF-8 conversion support. * PHP's memory_limit is 16M. If this is too low, installation may fail! Attempting to raise limit to 20M... ok. * Have zlib support; enabling output compression. * Neither Turck MMCache nor eAccelerator nor APC are installed, can't use object caching functions * Found GNU diff3: /usr/bin/diff3. * Found ImageMagick: /usr/bin/convert; image thumbnailing will be enabled if you enable uploads. * Installation directory: /var/lib/mediawiki1.7 * Script URI path: /mediawiki1.7 * Environment checked. You can install MediaWiki.

Generating configuration file... * Database type: MySQL * Loading class: DatabaseMysql * Attempting to connect to database server as root...success. * Connected to 5.0.32-Debian_7etch6-log; enabling MySQL 4.1/5.0 charset mode * Database twwikidb exists

Creating tables... using MySQL 5 table defs...Query "CREATE TABLE `user` ( user_id int(5) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment, user_name varchar(255) binary NOT NULL default , user_real_name varchar(255) binary NOT NULL default , user_password tinyblob NOT NULL, user_newpassword tinyblob NOT NULL , user_email tinytext NOT NULL default , user_options blob NOT NULL , user_touched char(14) binary NOT NULL default , user_token char(32) binary NOT NULL default , user_email_authenticated CHAR(14) BINARY, user_email_token CHAR(32) BINARY, user_email_token_expires CHAR(14) BINARY, user_registration CHAR(14) BINARY, PRIMARY KEY user_id (user_id), UNIQUE INDEX user_name (user_name), INDEX (user_email_token) ) , DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 " failed with error code "BLOB/TEXT column 'user_email' can't have a default value (192.168.xxx.xxx). When I copy the statement into a query tool and drop the default="''" part for all blobs, it works fine?!

Andreas —194.94.5.91 16:16, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) Parse error upon installation

 * MediaWiki version: 1.13.1
 * PHP version: 4.4.9
 * MySQL version: 5.0
 * URL: http://hogwarts-interactive.com

I installed MediaWiki and have come across this error when I try to go to my main wiki page:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STATIC, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in /homepages/8/d98476241/htdocs/hogwartsnew/wiki/includes/AutoLoader.php on line 10

My wiki page is:

http://hogwarts-interactive.com/wiki/

However if I go to http://hogwarts-interactive.com/wiki/index.php5 it works. How can I get the http://hogwarts-interactive.com/wiki/ URL to work properly?

Thank you for your time! —98.243.173.84 05:30, 27 September 2008 (UTC)


 * In the .htaccess file in the domain root (create it if it doesn't already exist), add
 * —Emufarmers(T 10:16, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
 * —Emufarmers(T 10:16, 27 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi support,
 * I had the exact same message and behaviour (ie ok with /index.php5) as Hogwarts-I and I modified .htaccess as suggested.
 * I now have a page that starts with : * This is the main web entry point for MediaWiki.

* * If you are reading this in your web browser, your server is probably * not configured correctly to run PHP applications!
 * here is my configuration.
 * MediaWiki: 1.13.2
 * PHP 5.2.6 (cgi)
 * MySQL 5.0.44-log
 * URL http://www.rouletaville.fr/wiki/
 * Thanks for your help
 * Thanks for your help

(RESOLVED) Problem moving wiki site to a new host

 * MediaWiki version: 1.7 (I plan to upgrade after this move)
 * PHP version: 5.2.5
 * MySQL version: 5.0.45
 * URL: http://techforpeople.net/~greenpro (the copy is from http://www.greenpolicy.us; will redirect DNS when this works)

I am moving to a new host. I have MediaWiki Administrators Tutorial Guide and searched this site to find the same problem. I exported and imported the database content and confirmed it by comparing table row counts on each one, and moved the files over with tar. I edited and updated the LocalSettings.php file.

I now get a 404 Not Found error: The requested URL /Main_Page was not found on this server.

Does this mean it's not connecting the the database? I can access it from the shell command line and put the same username and password in the LocalSettings.php file. The old host was a dedicated VPS and the new one is shared. Does that affect something? Are the PHP or MySQL too new for the old MediaWiki that I have?

Thanks for any help (including links to responses to the same problem that I didn't find)

Dean74.4.182.142 16:26, 1 October 2008 (UTC)


 * You implemented very short URLs on your old server. On your new server, you must change $wgArticlePath and friends to their default values or apply the necessary rewriting/aliasing. —Emufarmers(T 18:16, 1 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks - I got it working. Will need to look into whether I can use the short URLs on the new host, or if I even should try.
 * Dean 74.4.182.142

(OUTDATED) warning and fatal error on install...

 * MediaWiki version: 1.13.0rc1
 * PHP version: 5.2.6
 * MySQL version: 5.0.51a-community
 * URL: http://www.mr-johnson.co.uk/wiki

I was trying to install mediawiki however after entering all the database details such as usernames and passwords etc the next page had the following (see warning at the end of this):


 * 1) PHP 5.2.6 installed
 * 2) Found database drivers for: MySQL PostgreSQL SQLite
 * 3) PHP server API is cgi-fcgi; using ugly URLs (index.php?title=Page_Title)
 * 4) Have XML / Latin1-UTF-8 conversion support.
 * 5) Session save path (/tmp) appears to be valid.
 * 6) PHP's memory_limit is 8M. Attempting to raise limit to 20M... ok.
 * 7) Couldn't find Turck MMCache, eAccelerator, APC or XCache; cannot use these for object caching.
 * 8) Found GNU diff3: /usr/bin/diff3.
 * 9) Found ImageMagick: /usr/bin/convert; image thumbnailing will be enabled if you enable uploads.
 * 10) Found GD graphics library built-in.
 * 11) Installation directory: /home/alxjohns/public_html/mrjohnson/wiki
 * 12) Script URI path: /wiki
 * 13) Installing MediaWiki with php file extensions
 * 14) Environment checked. You can install MediaWiki.

Generating configuration file...
 * 1) Database type: MySQL
 * 2) Loading class: DatabaseMysql

Warning: AutoLoader::require(/home/alxjohns/public_html/mrjohnson/wiki/includes/db/Database.php) [autoloader.require]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/alxjohns/public_html/mrjohnson/wiki/includes/AutoLoader.php on line 507

Fatal error: AutoLoader::require [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/alxjohns/public_html/mrjohnson/wiki/includes/db/Database.php' (include_path='/home/alxjohns/public_html/mrjohnson/wiki:/home/alxjohns/public_html/mrjohnson/wiki/includes:/home/alxjohns/public_html/mrjohnson/wiki/languages:.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/alxjohns/public_html/mrjohnson/wiki/includes/AutoLoader.php on line 507 If you have any suggestions that would be great,

Regards,

A Johnson mrj@mr-johnson.co.uk —212.159.12.88 20:01, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

(OUTDATED) Viewing config/index.php only lists PHP 5.2.6 installed and nothing else

 * MediaWiki version: 1.13.1
 * PHP version: PHP 5.2.6
 * MySQL version: mysql-server-5.0.45
 * URL: http://justwriteclick.com/wiki

When I go to /config/ in Firefox 3.0 to start the installation, the only text I see under Checking Environment... is

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

* PHP 5.2.6 installed

My guess is that it's not getting to the driver point, but I'm not sure what to do to get it past this line.

I don't know if this info is relevant, but I have an .htaccess file at the root level with Wordpress info in it. I also tried installing 1.13.0 but got the same line. Octal permissions on the /config/ directory are 0777.

Thanks for any help you can offer!

—Annegentle 02:56, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) Logo not visible on Main Page?

 * MediaWiki version: 1.12.0_1
 * PHP version: 5.2.6
 * MySQL version: 5.0.51a
 * URL:

I've added my own logo to my wiki site, but it's not viewable on the main page. I can login as admin, choose preferences, and Skin and preview the different skins and it's there when the preview page comes up. Any ideas?

Sorry, forgot to add subject in previous post. Carlton.

—168.215.186.133 15:26, 3 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Purge the cache. —Emufarmers(T 23:33, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) Updating across 6 versions

 * MediaWiki version: 1.7.1
 * PHP version: 5.2.5
 * MySQL version: 1.0.54
 * URL: http://techforpeople.net/~greenpro

I've got this old version of Mediawiki running and recently relocated to a new host. Seems like a good time to upgrade and get current. But I couldn't find anything in the upgrade docs that referred to upgrading such an old version. Are there any concerns in doing this - jumping six versions up to 1.13? Are the upgrade scripts set up to detect older versions and do any extra steps to the database?

I have made some mods, but really only to the skin, and I can fairly easily redo those.

Thanks

Dean 74.4.182.142


 * It should work; report any problems you might have! —Emufarmers(T 23:33, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

(OUTDATED) Wikimedia question, wikis without sysops

 * MediaWiki version: SVN build
 * PHP version: 5.26
 * MySQL version:
 * URL: n/a

How does the Wikimedia foundation have wikis without sysops?? Looking at m:Wikimedia projects without sysop, it seems impossible. How do the developers create the wikifarm without re-running the installer again?

I've tried to replicate this on a smaller scale on my localhost XAMPP installation, but it hasn't worked, so what do I need to do to fix it? —Naxram 09:06, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

(OUTDATED) Veracity of downloaded file

 * MediaWiki version: 1.13.2
 * PHP version: 5.2.6RC1-pl1-gentoo
 * MySQL version: 5.0.60
 * URL: none yet

Before installing mediawiki I'd like to check the veracity of the downloaded file. There's a sig file but where can I find the public key to verify this?

—132.239.12.245 20:55, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) Install script giving authentication error
"Attempting to connect to database server as root...failed due to authenticaion errors. Check passwords." I keep getting this error when running the install script. The database server is the same localhost I'm installing the wiki on, and the root password is definitely correct. In googling this error, I found that some people solved this by turning off safe mode in php.ini, however that option was already off on my machine. Anything else I can check?
 * MediaWiki version: 1.13.2
 * PHP version: 5.2.4
 * MySQL version: 5.0.45
 * URL: intranet


 * Issue resolved! It appears it was asking for the mysql root password, not my system root password, leaving the password field blank allowed installation to continue.
 * —210.55.198.32 22:18, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

(OUTDATED) How do you log in as an Admin

 * MediaWiki version: Latest
 * PHP version: 5.2.5
 * MySQL version: 5.0.51a-community
 * URL: wwww.talktechnology.net

Hey, I was just wondering how you can log in as an Admin. Is there like a directory you need to go to, since it doesn't allow me to log in just by pressing login, and I know I have entered my information correctly.

Thanks in advance, Matt, October 2008

(RESOLVED) Problem after upgrade to 1.13 (wiki not working in IE but working in Mozilla!)

 * MediaWiki version: 1.13.0
 * PHP version: 5.2.3
 * MySQL version: 4.1.18-nt
 * URL: www.wikiscope.org

I have just finished to upgrate my wiki to the 1.13 version. On the same server I have another wiki, updated a while ago and running. However, this second wiki is giving me troubles.

Fatal error: Call to protected method LinkBatch::executeInto from context ''
 * With IE7, the Wiki is working fine unless I log in and then I get the typical error "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage"
 * In Mozilla, the website run smoothly with only one error in the DynamicPageList2 (Version 0.7.8) extension. I had to comment out Line 953 ($linkBatch->executeInto($linkCache);), otherwise I get the following error:

During the update I did not get problems. I backuped DB and files, copied the new files and folder, moved extensions and included files that I need, restored permissions and ran the update.php script.

I would guess that, as usual, I have a problem with permissions or with the database, BUT I have not idea why with Mozilla is working almost all fine!!!

Any suggestion is welcome!


 * Solution
 * It was a problem of permission on the session folder... I was mislead by the fact that all was working properly in Mozilla. I have a few errors here and there but the Wiki is now up and running...
 * —Wikiscope 19:23, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

(OUTDATED) Database Error with older version on free server

 * MediaWiki version: 1.6.10
 * PHP version: 4.4.1
 * MySQL version: 4.0.24
 * URL: http://www.divineiniquity.net//wiki/

I am having trouble with installing the older version of MediaWiki onto the Awardspace.com free account servers, who do not run php5. I have been advised to disable all email-related configurations during the installation (because of limited database memory, I'm not sure) but the installation still fails:

Below are the relevant lines I think relating to the error:

Initialising "MediaWiki" namespace... A database error has occurred Query: INSERT INTO `mw_page` (page_id,page_namespace,page_title,page_counter,page_restrictions,page_is_redirect,page_is_new,page_random,page_touched,page_latest,page_len) VALUES (NULL,'8','Imagelinks','0','sysop','0','1','0.008445855009','20081022042516','0','0') Function: Article::insertOn Error: 1062 Duplicate entry '8-Imagelinks' for key 2 (db4.awardspace.com)

Backtrace: GlobalFunctions.php line 602 calls wfbacktrace Database.php line 473 calls wfdebugdiebacktrace Database.php line 419 calls databasemysql::reportqueryerror Database.php line 1023 calls databasemysql::query Article.php line 1083 calls databasemysql::insert InitialiseMessages.inc line 204 calls article::inserton InitialiseMessages.inc line 72 calls initialisemessagesreal updaters.inc line 822 calls initialisemessages index.php line 659 calls do_all_updates

—122.111.121.82 04:45, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

(OUTDATED) Failure after installation

 * MediaWiki version: 1.13.2
 * PHP version: 5
 * MySQL version: ?
 * URL: http://mdm.md.ohost.de/wiki/index.php

after installing mediawiki following warnigs: Warning: ini_set has been disabled for security reasons in /usr/export/www/hosting/mdm/wiki/includes/AutoLoader.php on line 5 Warning: debug_backtrace has been disabled for security reasons in /usr/export/www/hosting/mdm/wiki/includes/GlobalFunctions.php on line 757 Warning: array_slice expects parameter 1 to be array, null given in /usr/export/www/hosting/mdm/wiki/includes/GlobalFunctions.php on line 757 Warning: debug_backtrace has been disabled for security reasons in /usr/export/www/hosting/mdm/wiki/includes/GlobalFunctions.php on line 757 Warning: array_slice expects parameter 1 to be array, null given in /usr/export/www/hosting/mdm/wiki/includes/GlobalFunctions.php on line 757 Warning: debug_backtrace has been disabled for security reasons in /usr/export/www/hosting/mdm/wiki/includes/GlobalFunctions.php on line 757 Warning: array_slice expects parameter 1 to be array, null given in /usr/export/www/hosting/mdm/wiki/includes/GlobalFunctions.php on line 757 Warning: debug_backtrace has been disabled for security reasons in /usr/export/www/hosting/mdm/wiki/includes/GlobalFunctions.php on line 757 Warning: array_slice expects parameter 1 to be array, null given in /usr/export/www/hosting/mdm/wiki/includes/GlobalFunctions.php on line 757 Warning: debug_backtrace has been disabled for security reasons in /usr/export/www/hosting/mdm/wiki/includes/GlobalFunctions.php on line 757 Warning: array_slice expects parameter 1 to be array, null given in /usr/export/www/hosting/mdm/wiki/includes/GlobalFunctions.php on line 757 Warning: debug_backtrace has been disabled for security reasons in /usr/export/www/hosting/mdm/wiki/includes/GlobalFunctions.php on line 757 Warning: array_slice expects parameter 1 to be array, null given in /usr/export/www/hosting/mdm/wiki/includes/GlobalFunctions.php on line 757 Warning: debug_backtrace has been disabled for security reasons in /usr/export/www/hosting/mdm/wiki/includes/GlobalFunctions.php on line 757 Warning: array_slice expects parameter 1 to be array, null given in /usr/export/www/hosting/mdm/wiki/includes/GlobalFunctions.php on line 757 Warning: debug_backtrace has been disabled for security reasons in /usr/export/www/hosting/mdm/wiki/includes/GlobalFunctions.php on line 757 Warning: array_slice expects parameter 1 to be array, null given in /usr/export/www/hosting/mdm/wiki/includes/GlobalFunctions.php on line 757 —90.134.2.27 00:05, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) odd looking url after installation

 * MediaWiki version: 1.13.2
 * PHP version: 5.2.6
 * MySQL version: 14.7 Distrib 4.1.22
 * URL: allynncomputerservices.com/wiki

I have just installed the above version of mediawiki on my server, which is running FreeBSD for an o/s. The installation went off without a hitch, or so I thought, but when I access my wiki, now, in order to get to a page, instead of <domain.tld>/wiki/index.php, I get a rather odd looking url that appears something like this.....

<domain.tld>/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page .... do you have any answers as to why this might be occuring??

I have installed it several times and followed the installation instructions to the letter and it always comes up the same way, no matter what I do for a directory, changing it to "wiki" or leaving it as the default of mediawiki-1.13.2 returns the same result.

This configuration also forces me to use ? to add or find a document as well, which is contradictory to the documentation for this version of the software.

I am somewhat familiar with the software as I have been using it at work for the past 2 years and there, it does not exhibit the same odd behavior as my copy.

Any assistance or guidence would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

—Jafo 05:08, 29 October 2008 (UTC)


 * thanks for answer. i have installed it on another hostserver. and now it works. Click
 * --90.134.37.191 15:54, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) Upload File Link Alteration

 * MediaWiki version: 1.13.2
 * PHP version: 5.2.6
 * MySQL version: 5.0.51b
 * URL: Not Public

Hi, I have managed to upgrade my wiki from 1.11 to the above version although when logged in the 'Upload file' link in the 'toolbox' points me to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upload), how can i change this so it points me to the correct upload page? (http://testroom/iroom/index.php/Special:Upload)

Many Thanks,

-sas daniels 09:21, 29 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Try to search and modify the  variable in the LocalSettings file. Or try to disable   on the same file.<DIV align="right">Eloy 23:23, 31 December 2008 (UTC)</DIV>

(RESOLVED) Installation on OS X: needs additional mysql privilige entry for user wikiuser
It is not enough to have wikiuser priviliges for any internet host. You must add 'localhost' to the list: mysql> SELECT Host, User FROM mysql.user; ++--+ ++--+ ++--+
 * MediaWiki version: 1.13.2
 * PHP version: 5.2.6
 * MySQL version: 5.1.29-rc
 * URL:
 * Host      | User     |
 * %         | wikiuser |
 * localhost | wikiuser |

—213.39.201.238 17:11, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

(OUTDATED) Database Fehler bei der Installation (German)

 * MediaWiki version: 1.13.1
 * PHP version: 5.2.6
 * MySQL version: 4.1.22
 * URL: http://www.divewiki.divedream.eu

Ich habe die richtigen Namen und Passwörter für die Datenbank eingetragen und trotzdem bekomme ich einen Fehler, das ich Name und Passwort checken soll. Das habe ich mehrmals bei meinem Provider getan und die sind richtig eingetragen.

Wie kriege ich das jetzt hin, das trotzdem zu installieren?

Gruss Chriss —80.226.0.1 18:28, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

(OUTDATED) Cannot export full history from Wikimedia
I have a wiki which I set up at the URL above, I've managed to integrate Commons images into it, but cannot import full page histories in, since I wish to ensure GFDL compliance. Using Special:Export does not get the full history of the page for download, so what am I doing wrong?? —82.42.237.84 18:21, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
 * MediaWiki version: SVN build
 * PHP version:
 * MySQL version:
 * URL: http://sunwell5.0lx.net/testwiki

(RESOLVED) Recentchanges only shows user rights log

 * MediaWiki version: 1.13.2
 * PHP version: 5.2.6 (apache2handler)
 * MySQL version: 4.1.21-standard
 * URL: http://wilderdom.com/wiki/Special:RecentChanges

Special:Recentchanges only shows user rights changes, not changes to other pages. How can I configure to show all changes? (e.g., those shown in Special:Log) —-- Jtneill - Talk 15:49, 8 November 2008 (UTC)


 * I had added myself to the "Bots" group. Once this was removed, edits showed in recenthanges. -- Jtneill - Talk 16:28, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

(OUTDATED) Clicking Install Does Nothing: Just Refreshes Page 1.13.2
I'm at wits end here. I get no errors, I get no scripts, nothing. When I hit install, it just refreshes the page.
 * 1) Found database drivers for: MySQL PostgreSQL SQLite
 * 2) PHP server API is apache2handler; ok, using pretty URLs (index.php/Page_Title)
 * 3) Have XML / Latin1-UTF-8 conversion support.
 * 4) Session save path (/tmp) appears to be valid.
 * 5) PHP's memory_limit is 32M.
 * 6) Couldn't find Turck MMCache, eAccelerator, APC or XCache; cannot use these for object caching.
 * 7) GNU diff3 not found.
 * 8) Found GD graphics library built-in, image thumbnailing will be enabled if you enable uploads.
 * 9) Installation directory: /var/www/vhosts/mysitename.com/httpdocs/wiki
 * 10) Script URI path: /wiki
 * 11) Installing MediaWiki with php file extensions
 * 12) Environment checked. You can install MediaWiki.

(OUTDATED) CREATE TABLE error

 * MediaWiki version: 1.6.10
 * PHP version: 4
 * MySQL version: 4
 * URL:

I'm trying to set up the wiki on my site, and it errors out with this.

CREATE TABLE `categorylinks` ( cl_from int(8) unsigned NOT NULL default '0', cl_to varchar(255) binary NOT NULL default , cl_sortkey varchar(86) binary NOT NULL default , cl_timestamp timestamp NOT NULL, UNIQUE KEY cl_from(cl_from,cl_to), KEY cl_sortkey(cl_to,cl_sortkey), KEY cl_timestamp(cl_to,cl_timestamp) ) TYPE=InnoDB

—167.230.104.94 17:20, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

(OUTDATED) Installation failed, how do I restart?
Having copied the software I ran the install script but it failed due to the wrong superuser account /password combination. When I run the script again it won't accept the DB username and password despite the fact that it is correct. How do I get to rerun the install script?
 * MediaWiki version: 1.6.10
 * PHP version: 4.4.7
 * MySQL version: 4.1.19
 * URL:

—195.248.123.83 17:54, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) Upgrade instructions miss a step.
Hi, I was going to edit the discussion page here: Manual talk:Upgrading to 1.13

Except that it tells me to come here, so here I am. Seems like a good time to complain about the discussion system in general.

On this page: Manual:Upgrading the instructions go:
 * 1) ) Unpack the new files,
 * 2) ) Run the update script.

However, at the stage you ask to run the update script, there is no LocalSettings.php, so the update script fails. Its no biggie, but its an error in the docs AFAICT, and it will confuse de noobs. Please fix this or I'll kill the hostages. --Dmb 15:39, 18 November 2008 (UTC)


 * The message says not to post support questions on that talk page. Your complaint is not a support question.  Beyond that, I have no idea what you're talking about.  LocalSettings.php remains in its original location throughout the upgrade process. —Emufarmers(T 23:54, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

(OUTDATED) Creating a MediaWiki wiki
No version or URL, hence the question:

I want to have my own MediaWiki wiki site, not another type of Wiki. However, I have no server or expertise in computer engineering. Is there a site (or person here) that will allow me to administrate my own MediaWiki wiki for free?

—Daniel Musto 03:56, 21 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Comparison of wiki farms —Emufarmers(T 04:01, 21 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Well, in specific, I want my wiki to have the same exact same design and format at Wikipedia. For example: http://meritbadge.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page From what I see, all the designs for these sites differ from standard Wikipedia. Daniel Musto 04:12, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

(OUTDATED) User:Anonymous after installation of MediaWiki 1.13.2
How comes that there is this user account User:Anonymous in the list of users after installation? What is the function? Both renaming users name and viewing settings was not possible. I would not like to have an account there that is a sort of backdoor. Thank you for your support. -- Klaus 15:26, 23 November 2008 (UTC)


 * That's probably what you named your initial sysop account during the installation. —Emufarmers(T 22:27, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

Set $wgShowExceptionDetails = true; at the bottom of LocalSettings.php to show detailed debugging information.
 * Actually I didn't (concerning initial sysop name). Some more details:
 * Showing all users, the user:Anonymous appears.
 * Visiting the user's page there is no link for user contributions.
 * Renaming this user says: Der Benutzername „“ ist ungültig.
 * Changing rights is not possible because it is said the user did not exist.
 * So, if there is no user why not making one.
 * Creating a new accout with this name causes an Error: ''Warning: pg_query [function.pg-query]: Query failed: ERROR: duplicate key violates unique constraint "mwuser_user_name_key" in /var/www/www.gfi.cx/wiki-gfi/includes/db/DatabasePostgres.php on line 552

''
 * In other words: I cannot delete the user because he does not exist. I cannot create the user because he exists. And he is shown in the user list. So, what is wrong? Is it a bug in this Version? Is it possibly due to a access-closed configuration? -- Klaus 16:44, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

(OUTDATED) Place, where the pages are stored
Hi,
 * MediaWiki version: 1.12.0
 * PHP version: 5.2.6
 * MySQL version: PostgreSQL 8.3.3
 * URL:

I know, the uploaded images are stored in the filesystem. But, where are the pages stored?

Kind regards —Tim 14:01, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

(OUTDATED) Trouble Installing MediaWiki

 * MediaWiki version: 1.13.2
 * PHP version: 5.1.6
 * MySQL version: 5.0.68
 * URL: Intranet Only

When Installing I get this page, but I never get the LocalSettings.php file to move out of the config.

MediaWiki 1.13.2 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 5.1.6 installed Found database drivers for: MySQL SQLite PHP server API is apache2handler; ok, using pretty URLs (index.php/Page_Title) Have XML / Latin1-UTF-8 conversion support. Session save path (/var/lib/php/session) appears to be valid. PHP's memory_limit is 8M. Attempting to raise limit to 20M... ok. 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. Installation directory: /var/www/wiki Script URI path: /wiki 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...success. Connected to 5.0.68; enabling MySQL 4.1/5.0 charset mode Database wikidb exists There are already MediaWiki tables in this database. Checking if updates are needed... DB user account ok ...have ipb_id field in ipblocks table. ...have ipb_expiry field in ipblocks table. ...already have interwiki table ...indexes seem up to 20031107 standards ...hitcounter table already exists. ...have rc_type field in recentchanges table. ...have user_real_name field in user table. ...querycache table already exists. ...objectcache table already exists. ...categorylinks table already exists. Already have pagelinks; skipping old links table updates. ...have rc_ip field in recentchanges table. ...image primary key already set. ...have rc_id field in recentchanges table. ...have rc_patrolled field in recentchanges table. ...logging table already exists. ...have user_token field in user table. The watchlist table is already set up for email notification. ...watchlist talk page rows already present ...user table does not contain old email authentication field. ...page table already exists. ...have log_params field in logging table. logging table has correct log_title encoding. ...have ar_rev_id field in archive table. ...have page_len field in page table. revision timestamp indexes already up to 2005-03-13 ...rev_text_id already in place. ...have rev_deleted field in revision table. ...have img_width field in image table. ...have img_metadata field in image table. ...have user_email_token field in user table. ...have ar_text_id field in archive table. ...page_namespace is already a full int (int(11)). ...ar_namespace is already a full int (int(11)). ...rc_namespace is already a full int (int(11)). ...wl_namespace is already a full int (int(11)). ...qc_namespace is already a full int (int(11)). ...log_namespace is already a full int (int(11)). ...have img_media_type field in image table. ...already have pagelinks table. No img_type field in image table; Good. Already have unique user_name index. ...user_groups table already exists. ...user_groups is in current format. ...have ss_total_pages field in site_stats table. ...user_newtalk table already exists. ...transcache table already exists. ...have iw_trans field in interwiki table. ...trackbacks table already exists. ...wl_notificationtimestamp is already nullable. ...timestamp key on logging already exists. ...have ipb_range_start field in ipblocks table. Setting page_random to a random value on rows where it equals 0...changed 0 rows ...have user_registration field in user table. ...templatelinks table already exists ...externallinks table already exists. ...job table already exists. ...have ss_images field in site_stats table. ...langlinks table already exists. ...querycache_info table already exists. ...filearchive table already exists. ...have ipb_anon_only field in ipblocks table. Checking for additional recent changes indices... ...index `rc_ns_usertext` seems ok. ...index `rc_user_text` seems ok. ...have user_newpass_time field in user table. ...redirect table already exists. ...querycachetwo table already exists. ...have ipb_enable_autoblock field in ipblocks table. Checking for backlinking indices... Checking if pagelinks index pl_namespace includes field pl_from... ...index pl_namespace on table pagelinks seems to be ok Checking if templatelinks index tl_namespace includes field tl_from... ...index tl_namespace on table templatelinks seems to be ok Checking if imagelinks index il_to includes field il_from... ...index il_to on table imagelinks seems to be ok ...have rc_old_len field in recentchanges table. ...have user_editcount field in user table. ...page_restrictions table already exists. ...have log_id field in logging table. ...have rev_parent_id field in revision table. ...have pr_id field in page_restrictions table. ...have rev_len field in revision table. ...have rc_deleted field in recentchanges table. ...have log_deleted field in logging table. ...have ar_deleted field in archive table. ...have ipb_deleted field in ipblocks table. ...have fa_deleted field in filearchive table. ...have ar_len field in archive table. ...have ipb_block_email field in ipblocks table. Checking for categorylinks indices... Checking if categorylinks index cl_sortkey includes field cl_from... ...index cl_sortkey on table categorylinks seems to be ok ...have oi_metadata field in oldimage table. ...usertext,timestamp key on archive already exists. ...usertext,timestamp key on image already exists. ...usertext,timestamp key on oldimage already exists. ...have ar_page_id field in archive table. ...have img_sha1 field in image table. ...protected_titles table already exists. ...have ipb_by_text field in ipblocks table. ...page_props table already exists. ...updatelog table already exists. ...category table already exists. —208.66.47.26 20:32, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) Installation issue under OS X

 * MediaWiki version: 1.13.2
 * PHP version: 5.2.4
 * MySQL version: 5.1.30
 * URL: see question below

Have successfully installed under OS X. Can access using http://138.26.45.64/mediawiki/index.php or http://localhost/mediawiki/index.php

The site redirects to http://brutus.local/mediawiki/index.php. This is fine locally, but not fine from other computers. I have traced the redirect down to this line near the end of the index.php file:

$mediaWiki->finalCleanup ( $wgDeferredUpdateList, $wgOut );

My question is, "how do I prevent this URL redirect?"

—138.26.45.64 23:25, 10 December 2008 (UTC)<John Robinson> jmr@uab.edu
 * Put the following line at the bottom of LocalSettings.php:  <font color="#66A7CC">i <font color="#9966CC">Alex  09:36, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) Fanhistory.com wiki run by your software
I would likely be correct in saying that at least 50% of the writers on FF.net are underage minors and what she is trying to do could most definitely put these people in danger. If she found their locations and someone 'googled' their name, the could find their images on social networking sites and that's what leads to people being on Dateline if the kid is lucky. It's dangerous and illegal all around from my point of view. A lot of fanfic authors have been stalked and threatened. I worry that this website could contribute to this sort of illegal and dangerous behavior. I have no other way of contacting anyone who won't 'flame' me for calling out about this site. This website has images and information as to where private citizens live. These people aren't celebrities with lots of security, they are young people who are in danger of getting hurt. This just seriously concerns me about people's safety.

—75.109.17.20 01:53, 17 December 2008 (UTC)


 * MediaWiki is free software and can be used by everybody for whatever content. We here at mediawiki.org are not responsible neither for third party uses of MediaWiki nor for content that third parties add to their website (content issues are independent of the engine that is used to run a site), and we can't help with respective problems. – Please contact the actual owner (or contributors) of the site you're concerned about. -- :bdk: 02:47, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) Fedora Code 10 Install Issue ... install script php detection does not match php.ini

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

I am trying to get MediaWiki configured on FC 10 with little success. I have the Apache webserver and MySQL installed and tested as individual packages. When I changed directory to /var/www/wiki/config and then do firefox ./index.html I get the following screen:

, 2006 Rob Church # http://www.mediawiki.org/ # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. [truncated]
 * 1) it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
 * 1) but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR

—97.100.11.228 00:36, 21 December 2008 (UTC)


 * It sounds like you don't have your webserver configured to use PHP (or perhaps PHP is only enabled in a certain directory), so Apache is serving the index.php source as text. —Emufarmers(T 08:04, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) MediaWiki Copyleft?

 * MediaWiki version: na
 * PHP version: na
 * MySQL version: na
 * URL: fusion101.com

Hi , Ive looked but cannot find an answer I can undrstand simply... (though im sure it exists)

Q: Am I: a) allowed to install/use this mediawiki software to generate revenue - ie use ads on my content generated using this wiki b) allowed to edit/mash up etc to suit my own site's needs?

—81.178.0.216 22:42, 26 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Yes. —Emufarmers(T 01:51, 27 December 2008 (UTC)