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(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(OUTDATED) User access denied during installation.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

  

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 /wiki/index.php, I get a rather odd looking url that appears something like this.....

/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.Eloy 23:23, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

(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) jmr@uab.edu
 * Put the following line at the bottom of LocalSettings.php:  i 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)

deleteBatch.php not working right

 * MediaWiki 	1.12.0
 * PHP 	5.1.6 (apache2handler)
 * MySQL 	5.0.22

I am using deleteBatch.php with a list of files to delete and it deletes the files or images, but the files still show up on a search. When you click on the link it shows as being deleted. I checked this with a file I deleted by hand and the deleted file did not show up on a search. Any idea how to delete mass files without them show up on a search.

--Johnp125 21:21, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

What is the solution for the "authentication error - check passwords" while click on "install MediaWiki"?

 * MediaWiki version: 1.13.3
 * PHP version: 5.2.8-win32 version
 * MySQL version: 5.1.30-win32 version
 * URL: http://localhost/mediawiki-1.13.3/config/index.php

I am getting authentication error while I click on Install MediaWiki tab and it shows error (authentication error - check passwords) with the Superuser name and superuser password when the checkbox of superuser account is checked.

And when it is unchecked, it will give same error (authentication error - check passwords) for DB username and DB password.

Please suggest me, what should I do for the above problem?

—125.18.17.16 10:36, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Scary transclusion problem
I enabled $wgScaryTranscluding, and it works well, but if you put in it does not show the template, only the Wikipedia policy page. What do I need to do to fix this? —82.42.237.84 19:45, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
 * MediaWiki version: SVN build
 * PHP version:
 * MySQL version:
 * URL: localhost

Installation

 * MediaWiki version: 1.13.3
 * PHP version: 5.2.8
 * MySQL version: 5.2
 * URL:

I've uploaded MediaWiki over my server, when I try to goto Site config page for Installation, some lines as listed below appears. What I do now, second I dont know about mySQL or PHP. I've just uploaded software files and nothing else. Please help in setting up a Wiki site using MediaWiki software. Thanks. set it to a valid path which is read/write/execute for the user your web server is running under.
 * 1) PHP 5.2.8 installed
 * 2) Found database drivers for: MySQL 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) Warning: A value for session.save_path has not been set in PHP.ini. If the default value causes problems with saving session data,
 * 1) PHP's memory_limit is 32M.
 * 2) 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/tayyebo/public_html/mediawiki-1.13.3/config/index.php on line 1874

Warning: shell_exec has been disabled for security reasons in /home/tayyebo/public_html/mediawiki-1.13.3/config/index.php on line 1874
 * 1) GNU diff3 not found.
 * 2) Found ImageMagick: /usr/bin/convert; image thumbnailing will be enabled if you enable uploads.
 * 3) Found GD graphics library built-in.
 * 4) Installation directory: /home/tayyebo/public_html/mediawiki-1.13.3
 * 5) Script URI path: /mediawiki-1.13.3
 * 6) Installing MediaWiki with php file extensions
 * 7) Environment checked. You can install MediaWiki.

Warning: exec has been disabled for security reasons in /home/tayyebo/public_html/mediawiki-1.13.3/config/index.php on line 1965

Warning: array_map [function.array-map]: Argument #2 should be an array in /home/tayyebo/public_html/mediawiki-1.13.3/config/index.php on line 1970

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach in /home/tayyebo/public_html/mediawiki-1.13.3/config/index.php on line 1973

Notice: Undefined variable: wikiLang in /home/tayyebo/public_html/mediawiki-1.13.3/config/index.php on line 1999 —Anonymous21 12:08, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

--> You really have to know something about MySQL, at least to setup a database for the MediaWiki.

installation of version 1.13.3

 * MediaWiki version: 1.13.3
 * PHP version: PHP 5.2.0
 * MySQL version: 5.0
 * URL:

Hi all,

I am installing media wiki version 1.13.3 from 1.11.0, I have backed up my database and filled in the requirements for the installation used my own extensions and images folder. And also used my own AdminSettings.php and after submitting i get this error:

PHP 5.2.0-dev installed Found database drivers for: MySQL PHP server API is apache2handler; ok, using pretty URLs (index.php/Page_Title)

[trimmed]

Creating protected_titles table...Query "CREATE TABLE `protected_titles` (

pt_namespace int NOT NULL,

pt_title varchar(255) binary NOT NULL,

pt_user int unsigned NOT NULL,

pt_reason tinyblob,

pt_timestamp binary(14) NOT NULL,

pt_expiry varbinary(14) NOT NULL default '',

pt_create_perm varbinary(60) NOT NULL,

PRIMARY KEY (pt_namespace,pt_title),

KEY pt_timestamp (pt_timestamp)

) TYPE=InnoDB

" failed with error code "CREATE command denied to user 'wiki'@'localhost' for table 'protected_titles' (localhost)".


 * Your MySQL user needs to be able to execute CREATE queries. Have your host give the user that right, or run the query manually in phpMyAdmin if it's available. —Emufarmers(T 11:38, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

Untitled

 * MediaWiki version: mediawiki-1.13.3
 * PHP version: 5.2.5
 * MySQL version: 5.0.67-community
 * URL:

I Downloaded the mediawiki, and wanted to try on another site, my gave his server and try it on, when i finished installing it seems to be some wrong this is what appears to me in the first page

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/fcfitco/public_html/wiki/includes/WebStart.php:19) in /home/fcfitco/public_html/wiki/includes/WebResponse.php on line 10

it appears a dozen times, also this one appears also

Warning: ini_get has been disabled for security reasons in /home/fcfitco/public_html/wiki/includes/WebStart.php on line 19

Warning: ini_get has been disabled for security reasons in /home/fcfitco/public_html/wiki/includes/GlobalFunctions.php on line 1984

i think this from the server, how i can solve the problem?

—JustTalking 08:02, 28 January 2009 (UTC)


 * MediaWiki is not likely to run properly on a server with important functions disabled. Tell the server owner that ini_get must be enabled. —Emufarmers(T 18:28, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

Rights to read page history and differences between them

 * MediaWiki version: 1.13.3
 * PHP version: 5.2.6 (cgi-fcgi)
 * MySQL version: 5.0.51a
 * URL:

Hi everyone,

We cannot view page history (...action=history) and differences between them (...diff=...), message: "You have not enough rights".

The "admin" account is part of the groups "sysop" and "bureaucrat". We use the GroupPermissionsManager, additionally I already added all sysop-default-rights to LocalSettings.php

Can you please tell me, which right has to be set to view the history and compare page versions?

Thank you in advance!

Kind regards

—Suesse 08:30, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

"Fatal error" after installing

 * MediaWiki version: The latest
 * PHP version: 5
 * MySQL version: 4.1.25
 * URL: mikelink.org

I downloaded the files, set up the database, went through the install process (where I gave it all the info it asked for) successfully. Moved the LocalSettings.php file, too. Now, however, when I go to MikeLink.org I get an error message:

Warning: require_once(/nfs/c03/h04/mnt/48214/domains/mikelink.org/install-utils.inc) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /nfs/c03/h04/mnt/48214/domains/mikelink.org/html/index.php on line 39

Fatal error: require_once [function.require]: Failed opening required '/nfs/c03/h04/mnt/48214/domains/mikelink.org/install-utils.inc' (include_path='.:/usr/local/php-5.2.6-1/share/pear') in /nfs/c03/h04/mnt/48214/domains/mikelink.org/html/index.php on line 39

I'm not sure why it's saying this. It says that it's failing to open that file, but the file exists:

http://mikelink.org/install-utils.inc

So does index.php (and index.php5 for that matter).

I've tried every combination I can for the permissions for that file, so it's not that. Not sure what to do next at this point, and couldn't find anything on Google. Please help.

—216.185.15.13 16:39, 5 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Your files are really in /nfs/c03/h04/mnt/48214/domains/mikelink.org/html/, but the script is looking in /nfs/c03/h04/mnt/48214/domains/mikelink.org/. What is $wgScriptPath set to in LocalSettings.php? —Emufarmers(T 17:22, 7 February 2009 (UTC)


 * It was set to ="" but I just went ahead and tried changing it, with no different results. I first tried changing it to the long path you said all my files were at (surrounded by the quotes, of course). When that didn't work, I tried just making it equal "html/" and when that didn't work, I tried "/html/" with same result again. So no luck yet.


 * I also tried changing all the $IP/ to $IP/html/. That didn't work, either.


 * Anyone?

problems with install mediawiki on PHP 5.2.8?
http://wiki.it2go.be/wiki/
 * MediaWiki version: 1.13.3
 * PHP version: 	5.2.8
 * MySQL version: 5.0.67
 * URL:

When i want to install Mediawiki, i have to go to http://wiki.it2go.be/wiki/config/index.php to set up the wiki. When i do so, i get the message "PHP 5.2.8 installed" at checking environment. And that's all the script does...

—213.49.146.211 23:01, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

Upgrading mw by applying patch
Hi. I'm trying to update my mediawiki installation from 1.13.3 to 1.13.4. I had downloaded mediawiki-1.13.4.patch.gz. But how can I apply many patches from this archive to my MediaWiki directory tree at one command? I think "patch" utility would be useful but I don't know how to do it fast and easy. Unfortunately any instructions for this are absent at Manual:Upgrading. Thanks. 84.204.216.36 08:30, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

Migrate from TWiki to Mediawiki
We have a Twiki portal in office with many webs in it. We would like > to move the WEB specific to my project in to a separate mediawiki server at a different location.


 * Look at the Twiki page. —Emufarmers(T 21:18, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Editing Meta Keywords

 * MediaWiki version: 1.13.0
 * PHP version: 5.2.5 (apache)
 * MySQL version: 5.0.45-log
 * URL:

My Wiki has some keywords in the meta tag. I don't remember where I set these. My wiki has expanded so I would like to edit these. Where do I find them?

—Kristofer2 17:50, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

install problem

 * MediaWiki version: 1.13.1
 * PHP version: 5.2.6
 * MySQL version:
 * URL:

it doesnt install all the way.

* PHP 5.2.6 installed * Found database drivers for: MySQL * PHP server API is cgi; using ugly URLs (index.php5?title=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 32M. * 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: /home/bernie/public_html/wiki * Script URI path: /wiki * Installing MediaWiki with php5 file extensions * Environment checked. You can install MediaWiki. *

Generating configuration file... * Database type: MySQL * Loading class: DatabaseMysql * Attempting to connect to database server as bernie_auswiki...success. * Connected to 4.1.22-standard; enabling MySQL 4.1/5.0 charset mode * Database bernie_wiki exists * Creating tables...Query "CREATE TABLE `user` ( user_id int 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_newpass_time binary(14), user_email tinytext NOT NULL, user_options blob NOT NULL, user_touched binary(14) NOT NULL default , user_token binary(32) NOT NULL default , user_email_authenticated binary(14), user_email_token binary(32), user_email_token_expires binary(14), user_registration binary(14), user_editcount int, PRIMARY KEY user_id (user_id), UNIQUE INDEX user_name (user_name), INDEX (user_email_token) ) ENGINE=InnoDB, DEFAULT CHARSET=binary " failed with error code "Table 'user' already exists (localhost)".

maybe i need to get the mysql to setup the tables manually ? where do i get it?

—153.107.103.155 04:40, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Skin changes will not be displayed in my browser.

 * MediaWiki version: 1.11.2
 * PHP version: 5.2.8 (apache2handler)
 * MySQL version: 4.1.22-log
 * URL: http://fondsresearch.fo.funpic.de/mediawiki-1.11.2/index.php/Hauptseite

I've changed the backround-image and the wiki.png-image, but I can not see changes of the page. It still looks the same as before the changes (see Image File: http://fondsresearch.fo.funpic.de/mediawiki-1.11.2/index.php/Bild:MainPage.jpg). I've deleted all temporary files in the IE Explorer (Version 7), but nothing happens. But if I watch the site with another computer, I have no problems. I can see the new Version with the new background.


 * What can I do to see the actual background in my browser? I suppose, there must be a problem in my LocalSettings.php.

--Fonds 12:36, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Blank screen when pressing "submit article"

 * MediaWiki version: 1.13.4
 * PHP version: 5.2.6-0.dotdeb.1 (cgi-fcgi)
 * MySQL version: 5.0.67-0.dotdeb.1-log
 * URL: http://www.korczak-clan.de

Dear All,

I updated my MediaWiki from version 1.6 (backward compatible) to an empty version 1.13.4 (unicode utf-8). Trying to copy/paste articles from the old version to new articles in teh new version I mostoften get a blank/white screen when submitting the article. Returing to main page the new article was neither submittet nor visible in special:allpages.

Some articles pass copy/paste/submitting and are stored as usual (even long articles containing special characters from slavic languages).

—195.127.188.198 09:08, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

After Installatin the Editor Icons do not show up
* MediaWiki version:1.13.3 * PHP version: 5.1.6 * MySQL version:5.0.22 * URL: http://www.elthvcc.org/gswiki

I do not see the icons (images) (for Bold, Italic, etc.) in the editor. Also, I cannot see the icons in the Help page (Image:Geographylogo.png, Image:PD-icon.svg)

Please help.

Thank you.

Abe

Hi there,

pls. check in "gswiki/skins/common/images/" if the icons are available. If not download mediawiki, unzip and copy to the before location.

--195.127.188.198 11:37, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

Installing MediaWiki in a "live" website
I have downloaded the 1.14.0 version of mediawiki. My host server has Apache, PHP, and MySQL and have confirmed that they run on linux and will support mediawiki as long as I do all the configuring.
 * MediaWiki version: 1.14.0
 * PHP version: PHP5.0
 * MySQL version:
 * URL: zamboanga.com

I am somewhat familiar with the above items but am unsure as to the behavior of mediawiki when uploaded and unzipped in my host server.

Will mediawiki delete my current home index file in the root directory when uploaded? I checked your FAQ but this question was not addressed. Does mediawiki immediately create an homepage index file in the root directory? —Maletsky 03:29, 24 February 2009 (UTC)


 * MediaWiki will unpack into a new directory; it will not overwrite your existing files. —Emufarmers(T 11:15, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Can't find suitable mysql db driver during mediawiki 1.13.14 install

 * MediaWiki version: 1.13.4
 * PHP version: 5.1.6 (cli)
 * MySQL version:14.14 Distrib 5.1.31
 * URL: localhost

After successfully installing on my XP workstation, I tried to install on my Linux box (RedHat ES 5.2). Apache, PHP and MySQL all installed without error. I downloaded wikipedia and successfully brought up setup form in browser. When I ran setup, I got the following error.

* PHP 5.1.6 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 o For SQLite, compile PHP using --with-pdo_sqlite, or install the pdo_sqlite.so module o For MSSQL, compile PHP using --with-mssql not ready, or install the mssql not ready.so module

PHP installed with the RedHat ES operating system and I am unable to find mysql.so for ES 5.2. Any assistance will be greatly appreciated.

—Johncarlton 16:27, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

Installing a second wiki

 * MediaWiki version: 1.11.0
 * PHP version: 5.2.4
 * MySQL version: 5.0.45
 * URL:

I want to create another wiki alongside our current wiki but can not find a documentation on how to do that. Can you please provide a link or advice.

thanks

bobj

It's OK I finally found the page on the MediaWiki site Wiki_family

—203.10.55.11 04:33, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Problem When I Click the "set up the wiki".

 * MediaWiki version: 1.14.0
 * PHP version: Free host - cannot find version number
 * MySQL version: Free host - cannot find version number
 * URL: blizzcraft.l4rge.com/wiki

This is probabaly a proplem with the host and not your program, but I cannot figure out what to do. Whenever I click the "set up the wiki" button, I get this error:

Warning: require_once [function.require-once]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/home/l4rge/public_html/l4rge.com/b/l/i/blizzcraft/wiki/install-utils.inc) is not within the allowed path(s): (/firewall:/tmp:.) in /home/l4rge/public_html/l4rge.com/b/l/i/blizzcraft/wiki/config/index.php on line 39

Warning: require_once(/home/l4rge/public_html/l4rge.com/b/l/i/blizzcraft/wiki/install-utils.inc) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: Operation not permitted in /home/l4rge/public_html/l4rge.com/b/l/i/blizzcraft/wiki/config/index.php on line 39

Fatal error: require_once [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/l4rge/public_html/l4rge.com/b/l/i/blizzcraft/wiki/install-utils.inc' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php:/firewall') in /home/l4rge/public_html/l4rge.com/b/l/i/blizzcraft/wiki/config/index.php on line 39

Thanks.

—99.236.138.72 02:32, 28 February 2009 (UTC)


 * It's a problem with your host, yes. Unless you can get them to uncripple PHP, you will not be able to run MediaWiki. —Emufarmers(T 17:14, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Linux

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

Just to double-check, if I use GoDaddy to host my wiki, will MediaWIki work? The "GoDaddy Hosting Connection" preview says that it is Linux-only. So, GoDaddy needs to be Linux, not me, right? Thanks, Genius101 22:42, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

installation on red hat enterprise
In your site, in the part of installation, I've found a link for red hat enterprise, after I've selected red hat enterpise link, I've read about red hat 7.3, 9.0 and fedora, is there some information about red hat enterprise intallation or this release is not supported for mediawiki? Thanks in advanced
 * MediaWiki version:
 * PHP version:
 * MySQL version:
 * URL:

—88.61.38.67 14:37, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Installation of MediaWiki on Mac OS X 10.5 using MAMP

 * MediaWiki version: 1.14.0
 * PHP version: 5.2.6
 * MySQL version: in MAMP 1.7.2
 * URL: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Running_MediaWiki_on_Mac_OS_X

This is not a question, but a solution on installation help http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Running_MediaWiki_on_Mac_OS_X

MAC OS X 10.5.6:

I downloaded MediaWiki 1.14.0 and MAMP 1.7.2. Installation steps are following:

1. drag and drop MAMP to the application folder (no subfolder)

2. switch on Websharing in system settings

3. Follow the information in "Web-based setup" of ttp://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Running_MediaWiki_on_Mac_OS_X with following differences

a) rename "mediawiki-1.14.0" to "mediawiki"

b) put the folder into subfolder "htdocs" in "MAMP"

c) start MAMP

d) "start homepage", choose "phpMyAdmin", create new database with the name you use later and create new user with the name you use later and grant all rights

e) change in preferences in window "URL of homepage" "/MAMP" to "/mediawiki"

f) open with "start homepage"

4. proceed with "Web-based setup"

The text of buttons may vary as I used the German version and translated the button texts.

Hope this text helps. And I hope it finds it way as I am a complete newb to wiki-administration but I shall organise one for our workgroup.

—137.248.161.200 16:08, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

language.php error notices during installation

 * MediaWiki version: 1.14.0
 * PHP version: 5.2.6
 * MySQL version: 5.0.45
 * URL: http://saap-test.unm.edu/wiki

hi, trying to install mediawiki, but i keep getting a list of language.php notices that prevents the install from finishing. I've attached what I'm getting below:

MediaWiki 1.14.0 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 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 GD graphics library built-in, image thumbnailing will be enabled if you enable uploads. * Installation directory: /nfs/user/s/saap/Sites/saap.unm.edu/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 saap...success. * Connected to mysql 5.0.45-log * Database saap_wiki exists * Creating tables... done. * Initializing statistics...

Notice: Undefined index: namespaceNames in /nfs/user/s/saap/Sites/saap.unm.edu/wiki/languages/Language.php on line 2425

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach in /nfs/user/s/saap/Sites/saap.unm.edu/wiki/languages/Language.php on line 2428

Notice: Undefined index: mathNames in /nfs/user/s/saap/Sites/saap.unm.edu/wiki/languages/Language.php on line 2528

Notice: Undefined index: bookstoreList in /nfs/user/s/saap/Sites/saap.unm.edu/wiki/languages/Language.php on line 2528

Notice: Undefined index: magicWords in /nfs/user/s/saap/Sites/saap.unm.edu/wiki/languages/Language.php on line 2528

Notice: Undefined index: messages in /nfs/user/s/saap/Sites/saap.unm.edu/wiki/languages/Language.php on line 2528

Notice: Undefined index: rtl in /nfs/user/s/saap/Sites/saap.unm.edu/wiki/languages/Language.php on line 2528

Notice: Undefined index: digitTransformTable in /nfs/user/s/saap/Sites/saap.unm.edu/wiki/languages/Language.php on line 2528

Notice: Undefined index: separatorTransformTable in /nfs/user/s/saap/Sites/saap.unm.edu/wiki/languages/Language.php on line 2528

Notice: Undefined index: fallback8bitEncoding in /nfs/user/s/saap/Sites/saap.unm.edu/wiki/languages/Language.php on line 2528

Notice: Undefined index: linkPrefixExtension in /nfs/user/s/saap/Sites/saap.unm.edu/wiki/languages/Language.php on line 2528

Notice: Undefined index: defaultUserOptionOverrides in /nfs/user/s/saap/Sites/saap.unm.edu/wiki/languages/Language.php on line 2528

Notice: Undefined index: linkTrail in /nfs/user/s/saap/Sites/saap.unm.edu/wiki/languages/Language.php on line 2528

Notice: Undefined index: namespaceAliases in /nfs/user/s/saap/Sites/saap.unm.edu/wiki/languages/Language.php on line 2528

Notice: Undefined index: dateFormats in /nfs/user/s/saap/Sites/saap.unm.edu/wiki/languages/Language.php on line 2528

Notice: Undefined index: datePreferences in /nfs/user/s/saap/Sites/saap.unm.edu/wiki/languages/Language.php on line 2528

Notice: Undefined index: datePreferenceMigrationMap in /nfs/user/s/saap/Sites/saap.unm.edu/wiki/languages/Language.php on line 2528

Notice: Undefined index: defaultDateFormat in /nfs/user/s/saap/Sites/saap.unm.edu/wiki/languages/Language.php on line 2528

Notice: Undefined index: extraUserToggles in /nfs/user/s/saap/Sites/saap.unm.edu/wiki/languages/Language.php on line 2528

Notice: Undefined index: imageFiles in /nfs/user/s/saap/Sites/saap.unm.edu/wiki/languages/Language.php on line 2528

Notice: Undefined offset: 5 in /nfs/user/s/saap/Sites/saap.unm.edu/wiki/languages/Language.php on line 2551

—68.35.75.95 17:53, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Configuration/Installation Error
I tried installing the MediaWiki on my server, but I receive the following error messages:
 * MediaWiki version: 1.6.12
 * PHP version: 4.4.9
 * MySQL version: 5.0.67
 * URL: http://www.calebwilliamsphotography.com/auggiewrestlingwiki/config/index.php

Warning: main(convertLinks.inc) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /homepages/2/d276811108/htdocs/auggiewrestlingwiki/maintenance/updaters.inc on line 9

Fatal error: main [function.require]: Failed opening required 'convertLinks.inc' (include_path='.:/homepages/2/d276811108/htdocs/auggiewrestlingwiki:/homepages/2/d276811108/htdocs/auggiewrestlingwiki/includes:/homepages/2/d276811108/htdocs/auggiewrestlingwiki/languages') in /homepages/2/d276811108/htdocs/auggiewrestlingwiki/maintenance/updaters.inc on line 9

—Calebrw 04:14, 4 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Does the file /homepages/2/d276811108/htdocs/auggiewrestlingwiki/maintenance/convertLinks.inc exist? —Emufarmers(T 00:46, 6 March 2009 (UTC)


 * No it does not. The file you referred to is not in the package I downloaded. Calebrw 00:11, 10 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Get the package again, then. —Emufarmers(T 01:00, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Apache port is not 80
Hi, guys. My Apache is running on another port, e.g. 81. So I can reach my wiki through http://ip.ad.dr.ess:81/wiki. But I want access it by domain name. Let it be www.mywiki.ru. Again, when I try http://www.mywiki.ru:81 everything works just fine. But how can I instruct DNS-server to hide port number? There is a "web-hop" on everydns.net for example, which forwards www.mywiki.ru directly to http://ip.ad.dr.ess:81/wiki but there is full ip with port number in address and all links. When I change wgserver nothing happens (url and port number are in address and in wiki-links). What can I do to mask my port number? Thanks.


 * This is unrelated to MediaWiki; you can ask EveryDNS, but what you're asking for is probably impossible. —Emufarmers(T 01:02, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

After moving the LocalSettings.php file, hitting the url http://localhost/mediawiki-1.14.0/index.php I get "Please setup the wiki first" message again
Running Solaris 10, latest recommended patches, using webstack (formerly coolstack from sun). I untarr'ed the mediawiki-1.14.0 tarball under my parent directory of /var/opt/webstack/apache2/2.2/htdocs/. It created the mediawiki-1.14.0 directory under there. chmod'ed the config directory, went to the url http://localhost/mediawiki-1.14.0, it had NO errors, I moved the config/LocalSettings.php file to /var/opt/webstack/apache2/2.2/htdocs/ and hit the above url again, it repeats the message "Please Setup The Wiki First.". I just did that...no errors in my errors_log for apache either. it's like it's going in a circle and I have no idea how to get past it. I would like to get this running soon. Thanks!
 * MediaWiki version: 1.14.0
 * PHP version: 5.2.6
 * MySQL version: 5.0
 * URL:

—Rmarquez 23:35, 5 March 2009 (UTC)


 * If MediaWiki is in /var/opt/webstack/apache2/2.2/htdocs/mediawiki-1.14.0, then that's where LocalSettings.php should go. —Emufarmers(T 01:04, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

LDAP Authetication Problems

 * MediaWiki version: 1.12.0
 * PHP version: 5.1.6
 * MySQL version: 5.0.22
 * URL: Intranet only

For some WIKIs that are running in our Intranet, I need to authenticate our users using LDAP and the following two WIKI groups: Readers (testgroup) and Writers (testgroup2). Anonymous should not be able to read the WIKI pages.

my problem is, that using the syntax:

$wgLDAPRequiredGroups = array(

"testLDAPdomain"=>array(   "cn=testgroup,ou=groups,dc=LDAP,dc=example,dc=com",    "cn=testgroup2,ou=groups,dc=LDAP,dc=example,dc=com"    ), I cannot define different rights for users in the testgroup than the users in the testgroup2 have. This mean, if a user is in one of each two groups, he will always get the Writers access.

Can you please explain how I can define two groups, with different rights (Readers & Writers)?

—80.254.163.214 15:38, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Fatal error: Class 'ArrayIterator' not found in....

 * MediaWiki version: 1.14.0
 * PHP version: 5.0
 * MySQL version: 4.1.22
 * URL: http://www.jamesrregan.com/solitude/index.php?title=Main_Page

Fatal error: Class 'ArrayIterator' not found in /home/u4/moonman/html/solitude/includes/StringUtils.php on line 179

—96.249.206.61 18:37, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
 * ArrayIterator is part of the Standard PHP Library, so you need to have PHP compiled without --disable-spl. i Alex  22:27, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Using existing database

 * MediaWiki version: 1.14.0
 * PHP version: PHP 5.2.9-1
 * MySQL version:

Is it possible to use an existing database on MediaWiki? I have another application that uses a MySQL database and I'd like to know if I can use the users that are already in it in the wiki.

—Vinibravo 01:48, 11 March 2009 (UTC) Vinicios Bravo


 * MediaWiki 	1.14.0
 * PHP 	5.2.9 (apache2handler)
 * MySQL 	5.0.67-community
 * URL: http://216.14.114.163/~mcyclope/wiki/index.php/Portal:Cultural_Geography_%26_People_Groups

We are installing and configuring a new wiki installation (after transfering a former database that we used on a different server. We have not gotten this error before.  There are four lines of "Documentation" with the following statement following each:

!-- Add categories and interwikis to the /doc subpage, not here! -- /noinclude (portal title here) span style=font-weight:bold;nbsp;·/span noinclude

Any suggestion on how to fix this?

—Drmissio 23:29, 16 March 2009 (UTC)Drmissio

The installation script claims that I have an old version of PostgreSQL

 * MediaWiki version: 1.14.0
 * PHP version: 5.2.9-1
 * PostgreSQL version: 8.2.13 and 8.3.7 (same problem with both)
 * HTTP server: Apache 2.2.11
 * OS: Windows XP Home Edition SP2, Swedish

The installation script aborts every time with this error message:

Checking the version of Postgres...FAILED. Required version is 8.1. You have 7.3 or earlier

I was using version 8.3.7 of PostgreSQL the first time I tried. I had no problems with version 8.2.5 on my laptop, so I decided to downgrade, but I didn't find 8.2.5 at postgresql.net, so I downgraded to 8.2.13. And of course I got the same error message. A Google search for "checking the version of postgres" (with the quotation marks) shows that several people have run into the same problem on Linux systems. Is there a bug in the installation script?

—83.250.175.16 12:49, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

I said that I had no problems on my laptop, but I should also have mentioned that I ran MediaWiki 1.9.3 on that (with PHP 5.2.5 and PostgreSQL 8.2.5).

--83.250.175.16 13:15, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

I tried MediaWiki 1.13.5 instead, and got a few steps further.

Warning: pg_query [function.pg-query]: Query failed: ERROR: permission denied for relation pg_ts_cfg in C:\Program\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\htdocs\wiki\includes\db\DatabasePostgres.php on line 576 FAILED. Please make sure that the locale in pg_ts_cfg for "default" is set to "English_United States.1252"
 * Checking tsearch2 permissions...OK
 * Verifying tsearch2 locale with English_United States.1252...not found
 * Attempting to set default tsearch2 locale to "English_United States.1252"...

--83.250.175.16 17:09, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

I gave up eventually and used MySQL instead. I didn't have any significant problems after that.

--83.250.175.16 23:25, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

I also had the problem while installing MediaWiki 1.14.0 that the script failed with Checking the version of Postgres...FAILED. Required version is 8.1. You have 7.3 or earlier I could solve the problem by editing, changing code all all ident sameuser to code all all md5 and then manually creating the DB user and the DB table.

--41.145.90.167 00:09, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

And under Windows ?

i have the same problem((( what to do??? it doesnt work under windows(((

Under Window$ you can follow the solution posted here. It worked 100% for me!!

Login error CIWiki uses cookies to log in users. You have cookies disabled. Please enable them and try again.

 * MediaWiki version: 1.14
 * PHP version: 5.2.1
 * MySQL version: 5.0
 * URL: Private Network, it is not externally accesible.

Hi,

I just installed the latest version of Media Wiki from your website, as I thought I had a problem with the older version.

The older version would allow access to the wiki pages using hostname & IP while using Firefox. If i wanted to use IE, I would need to use only the IP address of the Wiki.

Now with the latest version of the Wiki, I have the same problem again! i.e. when I try to login using Hostname while using IE, I get the same error again:

Login error CIWiki uses cookies to log in users. You have cookies disabled. Please enable them and try again.

Even though cookies are enabled and this has been tested from various different machines.

I am running it on Server 2003 R2, all updates, with the above versions of software.

On Google I have come across a few people with the same issue, but there were no solutions provided.

Please can some one shed any light on this?

many thanks. impee.

—82.44.93.236 08:40, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

GNU diff3 not found (Debian Etch)

 * MediaWiki version: 1.14.0
 * PHP version: PHP 5.2.0-8+etch13
 * MySQL version: 5.0.32 (Ver 14.12, GNU Linux)
 * URL: intranet

The MediaWiki 1.14.0 Installation installation page returns the following errors on a GNU Linux system (Debian Etch) running Plesk 8.6. The wiki is located in an accessible subdomain: http://wiki.domain


 * Warning: is_dir [function.is-dir]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/var/lib/php5) is not within the allowed path(s): (/var/www/vhosts/domain/subdomains/wiki/httpdocs:/tmp) in /var/www/vhosts/domain/subdomains/wiki/httpdocs/config/index.php on line 441
 * Warning: Your session.save_path value (/var/lib/php5) appears to be invalid or is not writable. PHP needs to be able to save data to this location for correct session operation.
 * GNU diff3 not found.
 * Script URI path: empty

If I run diff3 in a terminal the correct information is returned:

diff3 (GNU diffutils) 2.8.1 Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. You may redistribute copies of this program under the terms of the GNU General Public License. For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING. Written by Randy Smith.

What's the problem with the "open_basedir restriction" and why MediaWiki couldn't find the diff3 command? Thanks in advance.

—RIMOLA 15:15, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

Newly installed mediawiki missing standard appearance/skin. How do I get these to work?

 * MediaWiki: 1.10.4
 * PHP: 5.2.6 (apache2handler)
 * MySQL: 5.0.45
 * URL: http://lettvin.net/wiki

I have installed mediawiki before, on ubuntu, without this problem.

I am new to my godaddy virtual private server running RedHat Fedora core.

See http://lettvin.net/wiki/index.php/Godaddy for installation details.

As you will see, mediawiki seems to have lost its skin and organization.

What needs to be done to restore a skin and page organization?

—24.60.117.38 22:47, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

install failed to create table but connect success

 * MediaWiki version: 1.6.12
 * PHP version: 4.3.9
 * MySQL version: Ver 14.7 Distrib 4.1.20, for redhat-linux-gnu (x86_64) using readline 4.3
 * URL: intranet

Since my company already use Apache/2.0.52 set up a webserver. So what i only need to do is to build my own mysql and install mediawiki. Mysql is running now, but when i install mediawiki, run index.php, fill in everything need, then only following info displayed. Since mediawiki can connect to mysql, why it cannot create table? Does any specialist no the reason? Thanks!

Generating configuration file... * Database type: mysql * Attempting to connect to database server as hspice...success. * Connected to 4.1.20 * Database mysql exists * Creating tables... using MySQL 4 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 default , user_newpassword tinyblob NOT NULL default , user_email tinytext NOT NULL default , user_options blob NOT NULL default , 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) ) TYPE=InnoDB " failed with error code "Access denied for user 'hspice'@'%' to database 'mysql' (10.130.25.194:3306)".

—61.170.194.191 02:44, 19 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Your database user to have the CREATE</tt> privilege for your database. If you don't want to give that privilege to the "hspice" user, you can use the superuser to handle the wiki installation (the installer has separate fields for you to enter the superuser credentials if you want to do this). —Emufarmers(T 04:52, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

Update.php Help

 * MediaWiki: 1.11.2
 * PHP: 5.2.3 (apache2handler)
 * MySQL: 5.0.41-community-nt
 * URL: localhost

I'm running MediaWiki on my laptop using LAMP. I want to upgrade from 1.11.2 to 1.14.0. I have already attempted to overwrite the old MediaWiki files with the new 1.14.0 files and MediaWiki started up fine - i.e. the main page and special pages worked fine. However, the custom content that I added - e.g. http://localhost/mywikipedia/index.php/New_Page - could not be displayed; a php-related error was shown in the MediaWiki template. Since the MediaWiki template was still working, I know that the files are still working correctly, the problem lies in the database connection. I reverted back to version 1.11.2 by replacing the files I backed up originally and all of my custom pages show up just fine. I believe my problem is not running the /maintenance/update.php script because I don't know how and don't have command line access with LAMP. Can anyone tell me how to run this update script so that an upgraded version of MediaWiki will work? Thank you!

—199.52.13.101 13:36, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

After clicking on "Install MediaWiki!" the page changes to "The website cannot be displayed"

 * MediaWiki version: 1.14.0
 * PHP version: 5.2
 * MySQL version: 5.1
 * URL:

After setting up MediaWiki, I log on to "localhost/CAI_wiki" and go to the "MediaWiki 1.14.0 Installation" page - eviroment variables seem ok...I fill out the necessary info on the page and click on the "Install MediaWiki!" button at the bottom of the page and I get a "Page cannot be displayed" browser error. I log back on to the mediawiki page and I have to repeat the process...

I checked MySql and database seems to have been created.

Any help would be appreciated.

Wayne Boyd wboyd@iglou.com —74.254.192.66 21:48, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

Installation Problems

 * MediaWiki version: 1.14.0
 * PHP version: 5.2.3
 * MySQL version: 5.0.41
 * URL: www.taowizard.com/wiki

Here is what I get back when I try and install:


 * PHP 5.2.1 installed
 * Found database drivers for: MySQL
 * 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 cgi-fcgi; using ugly URLs (index.php?title=Page_Title)
 * Have XML / Latin1-UTF-8 conversion support.
 * Session save path (c:\winnt\temp\php5) 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.
 * GNU diff3 not found.
 * Found GD graphics library built-in, image thumbnailing will be enabled if you enable uploads.
 * Installation directory: D:\hshome\c251773\taowizard.com\wiki
 * Script URI path: /wiki
 * Installing MediaWiki with php file extensions
 * Environment checked. You can install MediaWiki.
 * Warning: $wgSecretKey key is insecure, generated with mt_rand. Consider changing it manually.

Generating configuration file...


 * Database type: MySQL
 * Loading class: DatabaseMysql
 * Attempting to connect to database server as xxxxxx_wiki...success.
 * Connected to mysql 5.0.67-log; enabling MySQL 4.1/5.0 charset mode
 * Database xxxxxx_wiki exists
 * Creating tables...Query "CREATE TABLE `user` ( user_id int 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_newpass_time binary(14), user_email tinytext NOT NULL, user_options blob NOT NULL, user_touched binary(14) NOT NULL default , user_token binary(32) NOT NULL default , user_email_authenticated binary(14), user_email_token binary(32), user_email_token_expires binary(14), user_registration binary(14), user_editcount int, PRIMARY KEY user_id (user_id), UNIQUE INDEX user_name (user_name), INDEX (user_email_token) ) ENGINE=InnoDB, DEFAULT CHARSET=binary " failed with error code "CREATE command denied to user 'xxxxxx_wiki'@'98.130.0.160' for table 'user' (mysql503.ixwebhosting.com)".

—Stigweard 01:24, 16 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Your database user needs the appropriate rights to create new tables for the installation process. If you can't fix this yourself, talk to your host. —Emufarmers(T 10:17, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

Install problem. Stuck on install. "Please set up wiki first" message keeps appearing

 * MediaWiki version: 1.14.0
 * PHP version: 5.1.6
 * MySQL version: 5.x
 * URL: http://wiki.quattroworld.com

I followed the instructions and installed the Wiki. No problems so far!! Then it tells me to move the LocalSettings.php file to the root directory and change the name or remove the config directory. Done and done. I go to the index page hoping to see something cool and I get the "Please set up the wiki first" message!? It is not finding the LocalSettings.php file. It is there and I set chmod to 600 and tried chown several different users including root.

I am very excited to get this up and running and I can't get past this step.

Please help!

Josh@QuattroWorld.com

—71.112.47.222 22:20, 21 April 2009 (UTC) Also - just for clarification: I moved ALL the files out of the MediaWiki_1.14.0 folder and into the root httpdocs folder.


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

I get authenticated by typing in the right user name and password but then I get sent to the main page and it shows my IP address and still wants me to log in as if I had not.

—96.35.139.178 22:00, 28 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Did you put LocalSettings in the root wiki directory? It should be in the same directory as index.php, api.php, etc. Happy ‑ melon 21:26, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Un-free content on a wiki using MediaWiki
I am considering using MediaWiki for a publicly accessible, corporate web site. The content would either totally "unfree" or else licensed using Creative Commons "Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported" license with some limited reuse allowed. Does the use of MediaWiki for the site mean that my content has to be re-usable by others under the terms of GFDL?

Thanks, --A. B. 21:11, 19 May 2009 (UTC)


 * MediaWiki, the software, is entirely separate from the content you're actually building with it. Ultimately, you're creating a load of database tables into which people contribute content; MediaWiki is just the program which converts those raw tables into a pretty and human-readable format.  You're at perfect liberty to access the content any way you want, and the license of the content in those tables is entirely distinct to that of the sotware itself (and the license of MySQL, the database architecture, PHP, MW's source language, and so forth).  So you must use MediaWiki in accordance with its own license (the GPL); essentially this means you cannot create derivative works of the software without licensing them under the same free license.  So you can tweak MediaWiki for your own ends, but you can't then bundle the resulting product and sell it on (or license that software under a non-GPL license).  What you do withthe software, however, is entirely up to you.  Happy ‑ melon 21:23, 19 May 2009 (UTC)


 * OK, thanks! --A. B. 22:34, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Problem with Update from 1.12.* to 1.14.0

 * Moved from Project:Forum Happy ‑ melon 21:40, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Hello,

I hope anyone can help me to solve my problem. I wanted to update my mediawiki from 1.12.* (I don't know the exakt version, but if it's necessery i can try to search for it) 1.14.0. First I uploaded all new files, then i created a user in adminsettings.php, then I wanted to start maintenance/update.php but there I got a 403 Erorr. I looked at the logs and they say this:

client denied by server configuration: /srv/www/htdocs/.../wiki/wiki/maintenance/update.php

PHP Fatal error: Cannot redeclare wfwaitforslaves (previously declared in /srv/www/htdocs/.../wiki/wiki/maintenance/commandLine.inc:244) in /srv/www/htdocs/.../wiki/wiki/includes/GlobalFunctions.php on line 2905

What did i make wrong? I hope anyone can help me, and sorry for my bad english.

Regards,

Timo


 * This is not a place to request help with MediaWiki. “For help with the MediaWiki software see communication.”
 * Maintenance scripts like update.php are not run via HTTP, but directly in shell.
 * --Mormegil 22:16, 10 April 2009 (UTC)


 * OK. Thank you and sorry for false post.
 * Timo

Hello,

I´d like to know if there is someone in Brazil that knows how to use the Mediawiki. I need a person to teach me and give some consultancy to a company.

Thanks, Ju

Is the Wiki software allowed to be used on websites containing adult content or pornography?

 * Moved from Project:Forum Happy ‑ melon 21:42, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Here is the 1000 dollar question, is your software allowed to be used in any way shape or form by the adult industry? I feel compelled to ask because I have been a member of a few Wikis dedicated to just that and they have always ended up deleted and since the servers they were on do host adult content the reason is obviously something else entirely. so again is your software allowed to be used by the Adult industry in any way, shape or form? Yes or no? PunkMaister @ 1:08 PM
 * The MediaWiki software is released under the GNU General Purpose License, with no Warranty, Assertion of Merchantability or Assertion of Fitness for Purpose. Apart from this copyright license, there are no restrictions placed on the use of the software by its developers.  Provided that a user of the software fulfils the copyright requirements of the GPL, their use of the software is governed solely by local law.  So while the principle of using an open-editing software structure such as MediaWiki to host adult content may or may not be legal in a particular jurisdiction for a variety of reasons, there are no limitations imposed by the developers themselves on the use of MediaWiki to host any particular form of content. Happy ‑ melon 17:29, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

Where is the License information for MediaWiki?

 * Moved from Project:Forum Happy ‑ melon 21:43, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Hi all,

Where is the license for MediaWiki (the software, not content of mediawiki.org) definitively posted? I can't seem to find a single, clear source. Many pages state GPL, but what version, etc.?

Thanks!
 * See Special:Version. <font color="#66A7CC">i <font color="#9966CC">Alex  19:20, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks Alex - that page just seems to mention the license of the installed server. I am looking for the license information for the software before I install it (and for version 1.14.0)
 * The license is the same for all versions. If you want the license for the software before installing it, open the "COPYING" file. <font color="#66A7CC">i <font color="#9966CC">Alex  19:43, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

Installation problem

 * Moved from Project:Forum Happy ‑ melon 21:45, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

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

PHP 5.2.9-2 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 For MSSQL, compile PHP using --with-mssql not ready, or install the mssql not ready.so module

Please help!


 * It seems that there is no suitable database manager available on the system where you're trying to install MediaWiki. MW can run using MySQL, MSSQL or PostgreSQL databases, but at least one of these needs to be available. Check with your webhost/administrator (if you're on a shared server) or check the installed software if you have root access, and verify that one of these database managers is available.  MySQL is the most reliable and widely-used manager for MediaWiki. Happy ‑ melon 16:26, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

Installation Username

 * Moved from Project:Forum Happy ‑ melon 21:47, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Well I'm installing mediawiki right now and I've gotten to the point where it asks for... Database Name: DB username: DB password: DB password confirm:

Superuser account: [] use super user account Superuser name: Superuser password:

I'm installing this on a web server that I am not an operator of, a company is, blah blah blah. The thing is, I was never informed of a DB username/password or Superuser name/password so I have no idea what to fill in there.

What I'd like to be able to do is people can create an account to edit and create and whatnot.

Thanks in advance!
 * You need to have a database in order to install, talk to the person responsible at the company who hosts you wiki. MiCkE 12:12, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

Installing new MediaWiki with old Database
Actually my question is simple but to avoid a lot of work and errors i ask: Is it possible to install a new MediaWiki and use the old database with the old media files?

This is because my current installation (1.11) is moving to another server and it need to get an update. My thoughts were to install the latest version, copy the mediafiles to the new server, import the database to the new server, change de localsettings.php and go on with the Wiki's. So instead of updating it will be a new installation with the old content. Sypie


 * I don't think that this is a good Idea. It will cause you much trouble and lay waste on your database. You should download your complete installation, upload it to the new server, backup and restore your complete database and then do a regular update. --Bachsau 15:37, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

Installation Error

 * MediaWiki version: 1.14.0
 * PHP version: 	5.1.6
 * MySQL version: MYSQL 4.1.20
 * URL: http://awoiaf.westeros.org/

I receive the following error message when attempting to upgrade from 1.9 to 1.14 and attempt to run the Update.php file as directed:

'PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function codepointToUtf8 in /home/westeros/wiki_web/includes/Sanitizer.php on line 1108'

The update then breaks off. What should I do to correct this?

—81.224.98.2 21:24, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Blank page following successful install
* PHP 5.2.5 installed * Found database drivers for: MySQL SQLite * PHP server API is cgi-fcgi; 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. * 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: /home/content/h/a/r/harperfamily/html/Wikitest/Wiki * Script URI path: /Wikitest/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 harperwiki...success. * Connected to mysql 5.0.67.d7-ourdelta-log; enabling MySQL 4.1/5.0 charset mode * Database harperwiki exists * Creating tables... done. * Initializing statistics...   * Created sysop account Evan165. *

Creating LocalSettings.php...

Installation successful! Move the config/LocalSettings.php file to the parent directory, then follow this link to your wiki.

You should change file permissions for LocalSettings.php as required to prevent other users on the server reading passwords and altering configuration data.

After installing Media Wiki regardless of version on Godaddy Free hosting I am presented with a blank screen. The configuration page displays properly, but after installing and moving the configuration file up a level my pages will not display. Thanks for any suggestions! http://www.myharperfamily.com/Wikitest/Wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

—74.190.11.36 18:34, 30 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Hmm. What do you get if you move the LocalSettings.php file back (or at least out of the root directory)?? Happy ‑ melon 09:44, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

If I move the LocalSetttings.php file outside of the root directory, I am presented with the setup Wiki page which guides me through Database setup etc. Thanks.--74.190.11.36 16:25, 31 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Ok, that means you've got it in the right place, and the install is recognising it. What I see at the URL you linked to is an angle bracket and a wierd unicode character, then nothing. Can you copy the first few lines of your LocalSettings.php here please?  Be careful not to post the MySQL database password, which is stored there in plaintext, or any other data you'd consider private. Happy ‑ melon 18:26, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

--68.217.81.190 11:29, 3 June 2009 (UTC)


 * What's the first line? Have you got the <?php</tt> opening tag? And is that first line you posted commented properly?  The beginning of the file should probably look like this:

<?php if( defined( 'MW_INSTALL_PATH' ) ) { $IP = MW_INSTALL_PATH; } else { $IP = dirname( __FILE__ ); }
 * 1) the other MediaWiki files. It will be used as a base to locate files.

$path = array( $IP, "$IP/includes", "$IP/languages" ); ... Happy ‑ melon 11:59, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

This was a copy and paste error. The start of the file looks like this: --68.217.81.190 11:29, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Hmm, ok, so the file structure is ok. I'm afraid I'm honestly not sure what the problem then is.  Perhaps your webhost doesn't like (or doesn't allow) the running of PHP scripts in webpages?  That seems rather silly in the modern web age, but it's possible (or possible that you need to pay extra for it).  If you edit your index.php file to add some (well formatted) HTML before the opening PHP tag, does that display on the page?  I'm afraid I am rather grasping at straws here... Happy ‑ melon 15:15, 5 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Start debugging. —Emufarmers(T 07:09, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

Error 500 (Internal server error) on LocalSettings.php

 * MediaWiki version: 1.14.0
 * PHP version: 5.2.9
 * MySQL version: 5.0.51
 * URL:

When access LocalSettings.php after running /config/index.php, it will show error 500. the apache log as follow: [03/Jun/2009:13:49:38 +0800] "GET /wiki/config/LocalSettings.php HTTP/1.1" 500

—Alexlsc 05:58, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
 * You probably haven't set the right permissions on the file. They need to be chmod 600 (owner read/write, no other permissions).  Happy ‑ melon 08:45, 3 June 2009 (UTC)