User talk:Patheticcockroach

Hey dude with the funny nickname :) I think your Extension:IM Status is quite interesting, and to give it some more exposure, and to support more i18n, I just added it to the MediaWiki SVN. I also made a few minor patches, most significant I think is delaying the message loading. If you are serious about MediaWiki hacking, I would also recommend that you request commit access to the MediaWiki svn repo, by sending a short mail with a request to brion at wikimedia dot org, accompanied by a public key you can use with your subversion client. Cheers! Siebrand 20:19, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Will do if I find something more to add to the extension ;) Patheticcockroach 07:19, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

Installation differculties
Hello, I'm new to the wiki stuff and I have problems to install your extension:RatingBar... I followed the install instructions but somehow it still doesn't want to work. The php_error.log is saying:

[09-Apr-2009 12:28:27] PHP Warning: require_once(C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\mediawiki/extensions/RatingBar/ratingbar.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\mediawiki\LocalSettings.php on line 282 [09-Apr-2009 12:28:27] PHP Fatal error: require_once [function.require]: Failed opening required 'C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\mediawiki/extensions/RatingBar/ratingbar.php' (include_path='C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\mediawiki;C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\mediawiki/includes;C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\mediawiki/languages;C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\mediawiki/extensions; C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\me diawiki/extensions/Ratings;.;C:\php5\pear') in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\mediawiki\LocalSettings.php on line 282

I'm just a noob that needs help ^^ AndiRay 11:11, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Looks like a permission problem. But on Windows (Windows Server I suppose?) I don't really know how to fix this. You need to make sure that all files in extensions/RatingBar/ can be read (and maybe executed too) by the user that runs your HTTP server and PHP. Patheticcockroach 12:26, 9 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Yes, it is a Windows Server... actually I first try new extensions on my laptop (just XP) before adding them to the Server (WinServer2008). I managed to install the Extension ArticleComments but when I try to install any Rating Extension I get the same error. Maybee it has to do with scriptfiles or something else, since ArticleComment ist rather "easy" (Some extensions can conflict with maintenance scripts, for example if they directly access $_SERVER (not recommended). http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Extensions Since alot of people dont seem to have a problem it is obviously my fault :( or everyone uses Linux... In XP you cant do chmod 0777 or whatever. Is there some way to give the LocalSettings.php the permission to access the file?  Thanks for answering so fast AndiRay 12:52, 9 April 2009 (UTC)