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...
 * I have the same thing: linux(debian)...only a blank page, it's driving me batty, and soon to another wiki :(
 * Ditto here with LAMP installed and functioning otherwise correctly on Fedora Core 2.

MySQL Errors when installing MediaWiki
Hi,

I'm having some problemsn when installing MediaWiki on Windows. It seems that the creation of the wikidb does not work. I get the following errors :

MySQL root password (typing will be visible): xxxxxx Creating database... PHP Warning: mysql_query: supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resourc e in d:\progra~1\apache~1\apache2\htdocs\wiki\Database.php on line 165 PHP Warning: mysql_query: supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resourc e in d:\progra~1\apache~1\apache2\htdocs\wiki\Database.php on line 165

After that the following errors are displayed after answering the 2 questions...

PHP Warning: mysql_query: supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resourc e in d:\progra~1\apache~1\apache2\htdocs\wiki\Database.php on line 165 PHP Warning: mysql_query: supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resourc e in d:\progra~1\apache~1\apache2\htdocs\wiki\Database.php on line 165 PHP Warning: mysql_query: supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resourc e in d:\progra~1\apache~1\apache2\htdocs\wiki\Database.php on line 165 PHP Warning: mysql_query: supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resourc e in d:\progra~1\apache~1\apache2\htdocs\wiki\Database.php on line 165 PHP Warning: mysql_query: supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resourc e in d:\progra~1\apache~1\apache2\htdocs\wiki\Database.php on line 165 Done. Browse "http://:/wiki/index.php" to test.

I installed the stable MySQL database version 4.0.18 on apache 2.0.47 with php 4.3.2

Any ideas ???

thanks in advance

No Database connect, error message lacking
I have gotten MediaWiki to install on Windows 98, I am running the Uniserver 1.3 which provides Apache, PHP and MySql.

The MediaWiki installer did create the databases and tables as PHPAdmin shows them present, but when I go to the default page and it (implicitly) runs index.php, all I get is the cryptic error message


 * Sorry! The wiki is experiencing some technical difficulties, and cannot contact the database server.

I'm not sure exactly what is wrong, is there a way to get more information so it can tell me why it can't connect?