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Hello,

I am currently in the process of upgrading our wiki to a new version. We have an extension call Frame, and the file is websiteFrame.php. The only website frames file I can see on the MediaWiki website says Website in iFrame has been removed. I don't know if it is the same one.

However, the pages are blank when I try opening it. So I don't know if it is because the websiteFrame.php extension is not installed/or doesn't work with 1.21 (we were using MediaWiki 1.16.0).

Is there a replacement website frame that I can use? Or a way to view the page(s)? I am not sure if I did something wrong, or if it is because the website was a frame website.

If there isn't a way to view the frames, am I going to have to delete the database, and create a brandnew one from scratch, and manually copy and paste every page?

Hi!

Most probably you did not wrong - you just have to finish the update. :-)

A blank page points to a PHP error. Check the error log and/or activate error display to see, what error is happening.

As far as I found out this extension allows to view the whole MediaWiki website inside an iframe, right? (So I think that it is the same extension: Only 13 hits or so on mediawiki.org, one is this here.)

Something like that should also be possible with configuration options in LocalSettings.php: See $wgEditPageFrameOptions and $wgBreakFrames.

And no, you do not have to delete your database, quit with your girl friend or drive your car into a wall. ;-) But what you might want to do is: Make a backup!

Thank you very much! I appreciate it. I did not have PHP_errors logging, but I was able to see it was an extension that was causing the issue.

Thanks.

I have one more question. The employee who worked on the Wiki left months ago, and I don't believe there is anyone here that knows how it was configured. On our old Wiki version, we had a menu to the left of the page under the search box. I don't know if this was manually added in some configuration file, but it does not appear in our new Wiki.

Since I am just learning how to use MediaWiki, what would I need to edit to figure out how to get that Menu back to the left-hand side? I will attach an image of what it looks like.

You can see to the left, it shows the new WIKI, and a toolbox menu under the search. To the right, you see the older wiki version, and we have our own custom NAVIGATION menu under the search menu.

Since I cannot figure out how to attach an image to this post, I'll post the link to a tinypic url.

Please let me know: http://i44.tinypic.com/2roics0.jpg

Thanks!

Hmm, hard to say without seeing the old HTML code...

But seeing your image it looks like you had either modified the monobook skin or you were using an own skin. You should find information about the default skin in LocalSettings.php. Or in your user account when you go to "Preferences". The skin name, which you find (or found) there, is the one, which was used. You find the according skin in the folder skins/; it is a PHP file and a folder with images, CSS and JS files.