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= PHP Error Support =

I need to re-index so the search will work.
I try to run the proper scripts and this is what I get. I have version 1.6.10 running on OS X.

ns1:maintenance root# php rebuildtextindex.php Theosebia has a problem Sorry! This site is experiencing technical difficulties. Try waiting a few minutes and reloading. (Can't contact the database server: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/mysql/mysql.sock' (2) (localhost)) ns1:maintenance root#

Thanks in advance! BJ

Web service Login error

 * MediaWiki version: MediaWiki 1.15.3
 * PHP version:  5.2.9
 * MySQL version: 5
 * URL:

I am currently using webservice but cannot login in your AddPageService.php file. How to solve the this kind of issues.

—Gopi 06:53, 9 June 2010 (UTC) Gopi P

500 Internal Server Error on clicking at red links
500 Internal Server Error on clicking at red links I am getting internal server error in case i am not logged into my wiki site on clicking at links like create/edit/discussion etc, however, after loggingin system works fine.
 * MediaWiki version: 1.15.3
 * PHP version: 5.2.9
 * MySQL version: 5
 * URL:
 * See how to debug. Max Semenik 14:39, 15 June 2010 (UTC)


 * MediaWiki version:
 * PHP version: php 5.2
 * MySQL version: 4.3
 * URL:

Mediawiki update is unable to find the php5? It is pointed to old version php4. How can I resolve this?

—128.164.214.230 19:44, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

Fatal error: Call to undefined method SearchResultTooMany::hasSuggestion
Fatal error: Call to undefined method SearchResultTooMany::hasSuggestion in /home/sextant/public_html/en_wiki/includes/specials/SpecialSearch.php on line 938

I'm getting this error message only when I search for a geographic coordinate (which is how my wiki is organized) that has two negative coordinates. For example "-1.111111,-1.111111" returns this error message, while "1.111111,-1.111111" takes me to the appropriate page.

Can someone explain how to fix this?


 * MediaWiki version: 1.15.1
 * PHP version: 5.2.9 (cgi)
 * PostgreSQL version: 8.3.3
 * URL:

The issue is originally from 2009 archives, and it took me a while to solve this this when my wiki broke. There are no other references to this issue in the net, so I'm offering my solution. There seem to be some cases where SQL-operation fails and PostgreSQL-related changes are not applied. These SQL-statements are from PostgreSQL setup script: ALTER TABLE mediawiki.page ADD titlevector tsvector; CREATE FUNCTION ts2_page_title RETURNS TRIGGER LANGUAGE plpgsql AS $mw$ BEGIN IF TG_OP = 'INSERT' THEN NEW.titlevector = to_tsvector('default',REPLACE(NEW.page_title,'/',' ')); ELSIF NEW.page_title != OLD.page_title THEN NEW.titlevector := to_tsvector('default',REPLACE(NEW.page_title,'/',' ')); END IF; RETURN NEW; END; $mw$; CREATE TRIGGER ts2_page_title BEFORE INSERT OR UPDATE ON mediawiki.page FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE PROCEDURE ts2_page_title; ALTER TABLE mediawiki.pagecontent ADD textvector tsvector; CREATE FUNCTION ts2_page_text RETURNS TRIGGER LANGUAGE plpgsql AS $mw$ BEGIN IF TG_OP = 'INSERT' THEN NEW.textvector = to_tsvector('default',NEW.old_text); ELSIF NEW.old_text != OLD.old_text THEN NEW.textvector := to_tsvector('default',NEW.old_text); END IF; RETURN NEW; END; $mw$; CREATE TRIGGER ts2_page_text BEFORE INSERT OR UPDATE ON mediawiki.pagecontent FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE PROCEDURE ts2_page_text; -- These are added by the setup script due to version compatibility issues -- If using 8.1, we switch from "gin" to "gist" CREATE INDEX ts2_page_title ON mediawiki.page USING gin(titlevector); CREATE INDEX ts2_page_text ON mediawiki.pagecontent USING gin(textvector);

PHP T_NAMESPACE error at installation

 * MediaWiki version: 1.11.2-12.1
 * PHP version: 5.3.2
 * MySQL version: 5.1.36-6.8.8
 * URL: http://node36.susestudio.com:16080/mediawiki/config/index.php5

Hi,

At installation time, I get

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_NAMESPACE, expecting T_STRING in /srv/www/htdocs/mediawiki/includes/Namespace.php on line 44

According to FAQs, this is due to old (<5.3) PHP, but I'm running 5.3.2

Thanks, J.

—66.41.120.209 03:22, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Older versions of MediaWiki don't support PHP 5.3. Because they are also out of support and lack numerous security fixes, you are encouraged to update to 1.15.4 ASAP. Max Semenik 05:54, 17 July 2010 (UTC)

PHP5.3_2 "parameter expected to be a reference" issue, Downgrading to PHP 5.2,
Compiled from the FreeBSD 8 port tree 1.15.4 5.3_2 PostgreSQL 8.2.17_1
 * MediaWiki version:
 * PHP version:
 * MySQL version:

localhost for testing.
 * URL:

Unable to make DLP running on the mediawiki ( nginx ) architecture described above. Any call to a extension function fails on the following error: Warning: Parameter 3 to ExtDynamicPageList::dplTag expected to be a reference, value given in /usr/local/www/mediawiki/includes/parser/Parser.php on line 3243

Downgrading to lang/PHP52 solve the issue.

as far as i understand, the bug here: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=50394 has not been fixed.

—77.199.136.200 23:32, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Mediawiki should have refused to run the installer if the issue was present... Bawolff 07:19, 23 July 2010 (UTC)


 * What may be the reason to refuse the installation ? it sounds like DPL only is concerned by the issue. Because of the use of arrays as references in  functions args ( LanguageGetMagic) ? see http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=51174.--77.199.136.200 11:48, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

Storing save_session_path not in the default PHP folder?

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

Since recently me and some of my users (but not all) are gettin the dreaded session loss error. I've tried troubleshooting, but so far to no avail. Is it somehow possible to force a setting in LocalSettings that forces the wiki package to use a local Session folder within it's own folder?

I tried using save_session_path="$IP/sessions";, but that did not see to do the trick.

Any hints would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks :)

—193.163.248.30 09:31, 8 October 2010 (UTC)