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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!

HUGE Troubles in mediawiki 1.14.0
my bureau/admin account can not access Restricted special pages WHY?????????

MW 1.14.0 PHP Version 5.2.9 MySQL Version 5.0.67-community


 * What error message is given? Wikademia

Untitled
Hello! My name is Pilar and I'm an extranet oficer suporting now our extranet development project.One of the things we are thinking to add media wiki to our extranet as BT did. Now I couldn't find any information about whether media wiki can be implemented with a password regulated site as an extranet. Another question is can we get an media wiki expert some where to support with instalation and training us on how to manage the site? All this information here is quite heavy and difficult to understand for not developers minds.
 * MediaWiki version: media wiki
 * PHP version:
 * MySQL version:
 * URL:
 * You can post an advertisement for a MediaWiki consultant at MWusers.com. Dr. Eme

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.

Unable to view the php created

 * MediaWiki version: 1.11.0
 * PHP version: 5.2.5
 * MySQL version: -
 * URL:

I have installed PHP and also made the necessary changes to the IIS. Still I am unable to view the .php file I created in the C:\Inetpub\wwwroot folder. Everytime I try to view the file using the browse option I get an error saying I am unauthorised to view that page.

I do have administrative rights and installed it using the same.

Thanks in advance Maya

What have I do?
I had to start new MediaWiki 1.15.0rc1 Installation but received:


 * 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 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 32M.
 * 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: /usr/local/www/name_of_site.com/www
 * Script URI path: Installing MediaWiki with php file extensions
 * Environment checked. You can install MediaWiki.

Fatal error: Call to undefined function taint in /usr/local/www/name_of_site.com/www/config/index.php on line 1905

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.

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.

Blank Page After Install

 * MediaWiki Version: 1.15.1
 * PHP Version: 5.2.11
 * MySQL Version: 5.1.35

I have tried the quick solution of placing:

$wgParserConf['preprocessorClass'] = 'Preprocessor_Hash';

in my LocalSettings.php file and still nothing. The 'LocalSettings.php' is in the parent directory and the /config directory has been deleted. The install went great, no errors, no signs of problems, but still I've got nothing.

Any help would be awesome!

Respectfully,

Bryan

Inconsitencies between Uniform_Server_5.0 and installation Instructions.

 * MediaWiki version: 1.15.1
 * PHP version: 5.3.0
 * MySQL version: 5.1.37
 * URL: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Installation_on_Uniform_Server_%28Windows%29

There are numerous inconsistencies between the Installation guide and Uniform Server. I listed these in the discussion page: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual_talk:Installation_on_Uniform_Server_%28Windows%29#Uniform_Server_5.0-Nano_Beta3 Summarizing them:
 * no mySQL configuration file, my-small.cnf
 * no uniform server script, Server_Start.bat
 * I was unclear what was intended by "Doubleclick the "Start Wiki Servers" shortcut icon"
 * Configuring the Wiki Variables: I was able to do this, with a password.

—24.15.85.34 03:39, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

illegal?

 * MediaWiki version: not sure
 * PHP version: check with webmaster
 * MySQL version:
 * URL: http://www.poserpedia.com/index.php?title=Main_Page

Just a quick heads up.. Not sure where this should be reported, but it seems this site is using the Wikipedia in a way to imply the Poser site is working with Wikipedia. I'm sure this is just a minor hobby site, but it seems like something Wikimedia wouldn't be happy about, so maybe something should be done to let that user know? Cheers,

Nesnad 11:25, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

MediaWiki Installation Problems - MySQL related.

 * MediaWiki version: MediaWiki 1.5.8
 * PHP version: PHP 5.2.10
 * MySQL version: 5.0.84-community-nt
 * URL: http://web.duffleman.co.uk/wiki

Creating tables... using MySQL 3/4 table defs...Query "CREATE TABLE wk_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, PRIMARY KEY user_id (user_id), UNIQUE INDEX user_name (user_name), INDEX (user_email_token) ) TYPE=InnoDB" failed with error code "BLOB/TEXT column 'user_password' can't have a default value".

How can I fix this error? I got it when I was installing MediaWiki.

Thanks for any help you can give!

--George Miller - george@dufflman.co.uk

—81.142.171.225 15:28, 13 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Do not use version 1.5.8. —Emufarmers(T 18:38, 13 September 2009 (UTC)


 * A more useful suggestion might be to follow this link to Errors and Symptoms. Jan1nad 10:40, 24 September 2009 (UTC)

Upgrading from wiki 1.11 to wiki 1.15.1
Wiki Version: 1.15.1 PhP: 5.2.8 MySQL: 5.1.3

I'm getting this error:

A database query syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software. The last attempted database query was:

(SQL query hidden)

from within function "IndexPager::reallyDoQuery (LogPager)". MySQL returned error "1146: Table 'mediawiki.tag_summary' doesn't exist (localhost)".

I know the reason for this error is because i don't have the tag_summary table, I know to create it, i need to run the update script:

php update.php --aconf ../AdminSettings.php

Here is my problem. I don't see an AdminSettings.php and I don't see an update.php file. I did not have these file in my Wiki 1.11 version either. Is there another way of doing this with needing those two files? Please help!!!

Localsettings changes ownership during installation

 * MediaWiki version: 1.15.1
 * PHP version: 5.2.6
 * MySQL version: 5.0.81-community
 * URL: guerillascience.com

I have a new, interesting problem which I haven't encountered before. Following installation of MediaWiki, everything works fine, however, I am unable to change the file permissions on only the Localsettings.php file. Filezilla shows that all files have an owner/group of 1290 1290 (whatever that means), except Localsettings, which is 99 99. If I download localsettings, delete the old one, then re-upload, the owner/group revert to 1290 1290. Fantastic, I can change the file permissions, however, when I change to 700, I get the following ERROR MESSAGE:

Warning: require_once(/home/guerill1/public_html/LocalSettings.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/guerill1/public_html/includes/WebStart.php on line 113

Fatal error: require_once [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/guerill1/public_html/LocalSettings.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/guerill1/public_html/includes/WebStart.php on line 113

Any idea how to fix this problem or prevent it during installation, as I have never encountered it before.

—89.173.14.88 14:18, 25 September 2009 (UTC)Scott


 * MediaWiki version:
 * PHP version:
 * MySQL version:
 * URL:
 * Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_NAMESPACE, expecting T_STRING in *C:\xampp\xampp\htdocs\mediawiki\includes\Namespace.php on line 46