Thread:Project:Support desk/Lua Error - Signal 11 - How to Start Debugging

Installed software

Product	Version MediaWiki	1.20.4 PHP	5.3.28 (cgi-fcgi) MySQL	5.5.33-31.1 Lua	5.1.5 Entry point URLs

Entry point	URL Article path	/wiki/$1 Script path	[ ] index.php	/index.php api.php	/api.php load.php	/load.php

Installed extensions

ParserFunctions (Version 1.4.1) Scribunto

Wiki address: proutypedia.com

Hello! Spent the last week trying to get templates to work. Been running around in circles. Wiki is set up on a shared server on Hostgator. There is nothing in the /bin/ folder so far as I can tell (so no Lua on server). Trying to run Lua from command prompt just causes everything to hang up. I've acquired SSH access, but Hostgator doesn't seem to allow installs, viz. a separate Lua install. I tried to install Lua 5.1.4...but it didn't seem to complete the install...a couple errors showed, and then some directories appeared, but then the usual lua files didn't seem to be there...

Anyway, the first purpose of this post is to ask (beg) for concise directions to enable the logging I need to start debugging this. In LocalSettings.php, I included this as my last line:

$wgScribuntoEngineConf['luastandalone']['errorFile'] = '/tmp/lua-error.log';

But after clicking on a ScriptError and then going to the tmp folder, I find no lua-error.log has been generated.

I'm a lifelong computer user, but a novice when it comes to Linux or coding. The server seems to be running CentOS.

If I could get all the directions I need to start debugging in just one place, I'd be eternally grateful! (Tried the How_to_debug article, but it isn't doing it for me.)