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Hey there, I don't know if Im in the right area to post this but here goes. So our community called MineZ - which is a Minecraft gamemode on a Minecraft server - is getting an error whenever anyone tries to search anything in the search bar that isn't the exact name of an article.

It says Internet Error followed by:

Set $wgShowExceptionDetails = true; at the bottom of LocalSettings.php to show detailed debugging information.

I don't know if there is any way to fix this, but the wiki is basically useless without being able to search or go back into old edits of each page. Thanks for the help :)

www.minezwiki.net is the link to the wiki

Hi!

Yes, you are right here and there most likely is a way to fix this error.

As a first step, you can edit the file LocalSettings.php on your webserver and add the line $wgShowExceptionDetails = true; at the bottom of that file. This should activate error display in the wiki. Then reproduce the error again and see, what error message you get.

See Manual:How to debug for more information on how to get the actual error message!

Thank you for the reply.

There is a problem however and its that our wiki's owner has been MIA for a few years now which means we have no way to actually perform this task. Is there a way to move his permissions because without him around our wiki is dead :/

In order to debug your problem further, you need to change the LocalSettings.php file. So what you need is permission to read and, even more important, to write that file.

You could ask the wiki owner, if he can give you his credentials...

Or, maybe your system administrator/your host can give you access to the owner's account. If your server is running on some kind of UNIX/Linux, then you can also use another user account, who has these rights. Or your system administrator could create a new user account, and make this account member of the according user groups, so that this account can edit this file. Anyway, you would have to check that with the host.