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Page Linking Help Needed
Hi, is there a plugin that automatically links key words to other Wiki pages? At the moment I am manually creating links but I'm sure there must be another way?

Any help would be much appreciated!

Mediawiki Appliance Version 1.13.20 Problems
Downloaded rPath Mediawiki Appliance, Running it on VMwear PLayer but can't find the localsettings.php file to edit.

Can't find much documentation. Any help or documentation would be great!

Extension Licensing Guidelines
I was wondering if there were licensing guidelines for extensions. I am combined several extensions with MediaWiki and noticed that some of the extensions have licenses that are incompatible with other extensions (e.g. Affero v.3 with a majority of extensions under GPL v.2). There are also several extensions that have no license indicated--is there a default license if you are coding for combination with MediaWiki? I was wondering if there was already guidance or if there could be some written on these topics. Thanks.

mySQL database username

 * MediaWiki version: 1.15.1
 * PHP version: 5.2.9
 * MySQL version: 5.1.33

I am configuring MediaWiki, except the one part I am having problems with is when it is asking me for a database username and password and confirm password. Below that is the superuser account, which is root.

>>>''Granting user permissions... Query "GRANT DELETE,INSERT,SELECT,UPDATE,CREATE TEMPORARY TABLES ON `wikidb`.* TO 'username'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'password' " failed with error code "Can't find file: 'user' (errno: 2) (localhost)".'' <<<<

But it will not let me continue the configuration unless I specify a user and password since it will not let me leave it blank.

I am installing on Windows XP, just need some help with this issue. I am not very familiar with databases, i know the root user account info, but it is asking for a username and password and confirm password.

Any help would be much appreciated.

homerm@rosedale.ca

What server variables are needed
My neywork admin needs to set server variables to allow the upload to be successful...

Trying to load to www.high12.org,

current php and all info can be seen at www.high12.org/phpinfo.php

currently receive "?"s when attempt to load php is made...admin requesting server settings needed

attempted to register for the forum but never receive conformation email...so hear i am.

I am not able to open setup wiki page, getting the following error
Getting PHP 5.2.1 installed Could not find a suitable database driver! Issue while Installing Mediawiki.


 * MediaWiki version: 1.15.1
 * PHP version: 5.2.12
 * MySQL version: MySQL Server 5.1
 * OS: FreeBSD 8
 * URL: http://localhost/wiki

I am not able to open setup wiki page, getting the following error:

MediaWiki 1.15.1 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 5.2.12 installed

Installation Problems

 * MediaWiki version:
 * PHP version: 5.2.4
 * MySQL version: 5.1
 * URL: Internal

—Joshg 15:18, 19 April 2010 (UTC)


 * MediaWiki version: 1.15.3
 * PHP version: 5.1.1
 * MySQL version: 5.0.45
 * URL: localhost

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 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 is configured with no memory_limit. Couldn't find Turck MMCache, eAccelerator, APC or XCache; cannot use these for object caching. GNU diff3 not found. Couldn't find GD library or ImageMagick; image thumbnailing disabled. Installation directory: C:\www_apache2\wiki Script URI path: 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.

Hello, I have two version MySQL, older 4.1.7 and 5.0.45 at port 3307 (wiki is connected at this one). Wiki is very slow, when i click at login or some other links at index site, after 1 minute apears blank page. I tryed add this code to LocalSettings.php error_reporting( E_ALL ); ini_set( 'display_errors', 1 ); but nothing happend. Iam desperate :( I apologize for my English...

—195.113.207.234 13:22, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

Can't access Wiki throuugh firewall although firewall is set to allow acess
I have my Wiki setup on the private side of my firewall. The firewall is set to send packets to port 80 on the internal adress. the public adress is different. I can get to my base url on the web server from the public side of the firewall but when I try to get to my Wiki the link times out. Again on the Private side things work just fine. In my Localsettings.php I have the base URL as /JASWiki and to get to it (on the private side) I would do this:
 * MediaWiki version: 1.15.1
 * PHP version: 5.2.6 (apache)
 * MySQL version: 5.0.45
 * URL: Internal Site myinternaldomain/JASWiki

http://172.xx.x.xxx/JASWiki

On the public side I would do this

http://172.31.xx.y.xxx/JASWiki

My firewall takes packets destined to port 80 at 172.xx.x.xxx and redirects them to 172.xx.y.xxx.

Any pointers on doing this? Or is best to keep this in front of Firewalls

John Boris Jboris 17:16, 30 April 2010 (UTC)


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

—41.97.78.152 08:17, 11 May 2010 (UTC)

Installation Issue: Access denied for user root@localhost to datbase 'wikidb'

 * MediaWiki version: 1.15.3
 * PHP version: 5.2.8
 * MySQL version: 5.1.30
 * URL: Local Intranet

I downloaded and unarchived the Mediawiki package to a new folder (w) under htdocs. I tried running the installation and entered the required information on screen but then when I get this error and no successful installation message.

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

PHP 5.2.8 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. Session save path (D:\xampp\tmp) appears to be valid. PHP's memory_limit is 32M. 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:\xampp\htdocs\w Script URI path: /w 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 root...success. Connected to mysql 5.1.30-community; enabling MySQL 4.1/5.0 charset mode Database wikidb exists There are already MediaWiki tables in this database. Checking if updates are needed... Granting user permissions... Query "GRANT DELETE,INSERT,SELECT,UPDATE,CREATE TEMPORARY TABLES ON `wikidb`.* TO 'wikiuser'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'admin' " failed with error code "Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' to database 'wikidb' (localhost)".

Any help on this matter is greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Regards, Yogesh Nahar E: yogeshnahar@crouse.org

Mediawiki in a commercial installation

 * MediaWiki version: none, yet
 * PHP version:
 * MySQL version:
 * URL:

Hi!

I'm thinking about setting up a wiki site for my company. Are there any restrictions on who can use Mediawiki, and where?

Thanks

James

—Jamesmcs 10:15, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
 * No, you can use it for what you want, provided you respect the license. i Alex  10:23, 28 May 2010 (UTC)