Manual talk:Running MediaWiki on Windows

Can't edit
I've installed Apache, MySQL, PHP and MediaWiki on my PC and it all nearly seems to be working. When I browse to wiki.phtml I get the main page with the menus but I can't edit it or go to any of the special pages, I always get taken back to the main page (which is empty). Anyone got any ideas? Mintguy 07:06, 22 Nov 2003 (UTC)


 * The reason it wasn't working was because I hadn't modified the php.ini file with register_globals = On. Mintguy


 * Also look for multiple copies of php.ini in your harddisk. Mine didn't start until I found that the right php.ini where to enable register_globals was the one inside c:\windows, NOT the one in the default php directory. At18 22:23, 8 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Getting sysop rights?
Hi

@first: sorry for my bad language ;)

I've installed MediaWiki on an WAMP-PC ... I wanted to log in as Sysop - but i don't have a password for this User (Do not find this also anywhere) ... Then i've register a new user - this works fine - but no Admin-Rights ;)

Where can i find the Sys-OP-Default-PW?

Thx Patrick


 * See Setting user rights in MediaWiki. --Brion VIBBER 01:11, 6 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Wrong DB?
The instructions on this page say one should enter "use wikipedia" before sourcing the dump. Shouldn't that read "use wikidb" instead? -- Finlay McWalter 23:00, 19 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Download Help
I cant seem to find the Win32 download for Mediawiki. It seems only the Linux version exists at http://sourceforge.net/projects/wikipedia/


 * There is no such thing as a Linux version or Win32 version of MediaWiki. It's written in cross-platform PHP and ought to run unchanged on Linux, Unix, MacOS X, Windows, and any other platform that Apache+PHP run on. --Brion VIBBER 06:33, 28 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Install Help
When I try to use "c:\php\php c:\mediawiki\install.php" to instill mediawiki, there are lots of Warning and Notice appears. Here are all the Warnings and Notices:
 * PHP Notice: Undefined variable:  REQUEST_METHOD in C:\myweb\wiki\Setup.php on line 74
 * PHP Notice: Undefined variable:  REQUEST_URI in C:\myweb\wiki\Setup.php on line 74
 * PHP Warning: mysql_select_db: supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in C:\myweb\wiki\Database.php on line 387
 * PHP Warning: mysql_query: supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in C:\myweb\wiki\Database.php on line 165
 * PHP Notice: Undefined variable:  sysop_password in c:\mediawiki\install.php on line 199
 * PHP Warning: mysql_num_rows: supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result re source in C:\myweb\wiki\Database.php on line 190
 * PHP Warning: mysql_free_result: supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result  resource in C:\myweb\wiki\Database.php on line 188
 * PHP Warning: mysql_num_rows: supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in C:\myweb\wiki\Database.php on line 190
 * PHP Notice: Undefined variable:  developer_password in c:\mediawiki\install.php on line 222
 * PHP Notice: Undefined variable:  sysop_password in c:\mediawiki\install.php on line 199
 * PHP Notice: Undefined index:  unprotectedarticle in C:\myweb\wiki\LanguageZh.php on line 1063
 * PHP Notice: Undefined index:  uploaddisabled in C:\myweb\wiki\LanguageZh.php on line 1063
 * PHP Notice: Undefined index:  userstatstext in C:\myweb\wiki\LanguageZh.php on line 1063
 * PHP Notice: Undefined index:  viewsource in C:\myweb\wiki\LanguageZh.php on line 1063
 * PHP Notice: Undefined index:  wlsaved in C:\myweb\wiki\LanguageZh.php on line 1063
 * PHP Notice: Undefined index:  wlshowlast in C:\myweb\wiki\LanguageZh.php on line 1063
 * PHP Notice: Undefined index:  wrong_wfQuery_params in C:\myweb\wiki\LanguageZh.php on line 1063
 * PHP Notice: Undefined property:  mContainsNewMagic in C:\myweb\wiki\Parser.php on line 894

What should I do to correct this? And in my LocalSettings.php:
 * $wgSitename        = "abc";
 * $wgServer          = "http://abc.3322.org";
 * $wgScriptPath	   = "/wiki";
 * $wgScript          = "{$wgScriptPath}/index.php";
 * $wgRedirectScript  = "{$wgScriptPath}/redirect.php";
 * $wgArticlePath     = "{$wgScript}/$1";
 * $wgStyleSheetPath  = "{$wgScriptPath}/style";
 * $wgStyleSheetDirectory = "{$IP}\\style";
 * $wgUploadPath      = "{$wgScriptPath}/upload";
 * $wgUploadDirectory	= "{$IP}\\upload";
 * $wgLogo				= "{$wgUploadPath}/wiki.png";
 * $wgTmpDirectory    = "{$IP}\\tmp";

When I try to access Http://abc.3322.org/wiki/index.php, the first page is OK, but when I try to Edit this page, lots of errors appear.


 * Your PHP error reporting setting is too high; MediaWiki 1.1 and 1.2 arent' designed to run with E_NOTIFY. Turn that off. --Brion VIBBER 19:33, 16 Mar 2004 (UTC)
 * I set "E_ALL & ~( E_NOTICE | E_WARNING )" in php.ini, and restart apache, there are still warnings when editing a page, why?


 * I tried using In-place web install of mediawiki-1.2.0rc4.tar.gz, the result is just the same: first page is OK ,but when i try to Edit, lots of errors:


 * Warning: session_start: open(/tmp\sess_8a26c9ebf7916ba31859bb7056e26b2a, O_RDWR) failed: No such file or directory (2) in C:\myweb\mediawiki\includes\User.php on line 146
 * Warning: session_start: Cannot send session cookie - headers already sent by (output started at C:\myweb\mediawiki\includes\User.php:146) in C:\myweb\mediawiki\includes\User.php on line 146
 * Warning: session_start: Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at C:\myweb\mediawiki\includes\User.php:146) in C:\myweb\mediawiki\includes\User.php on line 146
 * Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at C:\myweb\mediawiki\includes\User.php:146) in C:\myweb\mediawiki\includes\OutputPage.php on line 176
 * Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at C:\myweb\mediawiki\includes\User.php:146) in C:\myweb\mediawiki\includes\OutputPage.php on line 210
 * Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at C:\myweb\mediawiki\includes\User.php:146) in C:\myweb\mediawiki\includes\OutputPage.php on line 211
 * Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at C:\myweb\mediawiki\includes\User.php:146) in C:\myweb\mediawiki\includes\OutputPage.php on line 212
 * Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at C:\myweb\mediawiki\includes\User.php:146) in C:\myweb\mediawiki\includes\OutputPage.php on line 213
 * Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at C:\myweb\mediawiki\includes\User.php:146) in C:\myweb\mediawiki\includes\OutputPage.php on line 253
 * Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at C:\myweb\mediawiki\includes\User.php:146) in C:\myweb\mediawiki\includes\OutputPage.php on line 254


 * what can I do? Help!!


 * Your PHP is misconfigured; change session.save_path to a path that exists, like c:\windows\temp (?) --Brion VIBBER 22:35, 16 Mar 2004 (UTC)


 * yes, that's right! Thanks

Blank Pages on Initial Install
I can't get anything but a blank page to pull up. Windows 2K3 config. Checking everything so far I can't figure out why I get blank output.
 * FYI I have tried turning debug mode on in PHP and still no results...