Thread:Project:Support desk/Problem with bitnami + mediawiki/reply (4)

Details on how exactly the value of $wgServer must look like are on Manual:$wgServer: Complete (and correct ;-) ) base URL without trailing slash.

How long does it take until the blank page is there? Something like 30 seconds (which might point to a time out) or does it come up immediately?

In the case that PHP works properly (no PHP errors), when you then get a database connection error, you will see the MediaWiki interface and in the website it will say that there was a connection error. You would then not get a blank page.

For the charset: UTF-8 everywhere is absolutely fine. Since UTF-8 can need multiple bytes to save one single sign, keys have to be shorter than the MySQL maximum allows "on the paper". If I remember correctly they can only be 1/3 of the maximum 1000 bytes. You should see, if there are updates for those extensions fixing this problem and if not, inform the authors, so that they can fix it.

Did you import the DB with the usual MySQL tools (mysqldump and then mysql to import it again)? If so, the database name does not matter - MySQL will put the contents of the file into that database, which you specify in the mysql command - it does not matter, what name it has inside the sql file. However, please note that sql files can contain characters, which are outside of those, which text editors normally display. That means, if you open such an sql file with an editor, change something and save it, then these characters can get corrupted leading to strange errors.

Is your server somewhere on the internet, so that we could have a look?