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Hello, Please help, I'm trying to set up new MW install on an Ubuntu VM, and after completing and configuring installation I try to enter Wiki for first time and receive a page with only the following:

$wgServer must be set in LocalSettings.php. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgServer.

My installation is only on my private network for setup an testing.

By default the LocalSettings.php $wgServer is automatically set to the following:

$wgServer = "http://192.168.1.76";

I have also assigned a local dns record for the server and adjusted the $wgServer to the fully qualified domain as follows:

$wgServer = "http://wiki.jpnet.lan";

After hours of researching trying all I could and searching online for similar errors, I finally scrapped the server , created a new VM and started over from scratch, after completing configuration again i receive the same result. I don't understand, the error tells me the value must be set when it is already set, I am at a loss how to get past this error. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

Installation details

New Install

Mediawiki 1.34.0

PHP 7.2.24

MariaDB 10.1.43

Ubuntu Server 18.04.1

VE Hypervisor ProxMox 6.1-3

can you post your full localsettings.php (redacting any passwords or keys)?

# This file was automatically generated by the MediaWiki 1.34.0

# installer. If you make manual changes, please keep track in case you

# need to recreate them later.

#

# See includes/DefaultSettings.php for all configurable settings

# and their default values, but don't forget to make changes in _this_

# file, not there.

#

# Further documentation for configuration settings may be found at:

# https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Configuration_settings

# Protect against web entry

if ( !defined( 'MEDIAWIKI' ) ) {

exit;

}

## Uncomment this to disable output compression

# $wgDisableOutputCompression = true;

$wgSitename = "JP Wiki";

$wgMetaNamespace = "JP_Wiki";

## The URL base path to the directory containing the wiki;

## defaults for all runtime URL paths are based off of this.

## For more information on customizing the URLs

## (like /w/index.php/Page_title to /wiki/Page_title) please see:

## https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL

$wgScriptPath = "";

## The protocol and server name to use in fully-qualified URLs

$wgServer = "http://wiki.jpnet.lan";

## The URL path to static resources (images, scripts, etc.)

$wgResourceBasePath = $wgScriptPath;

## The URL path to the logo.  Make sure you change this from the default,

## or else you'll overwrite your logo when you upgrade!

$wgLogo = "$wgResourceBasePath/resources/assets/wiki.png";

## UPO means: this is also a user preference option

$wgEnableEmail = false;

$wgEnableUserEmail = true; # UPO

$wgEmergencyContact = "apache@🌻.invalid";

$wgPasswordSender = "apache@🌻.invalid";

$wgEnotifUserTalk = false; # UPO

$wgEnotifWatchlist = false; # UPO

$wgEmailAuthentication = true;

## Database settings

$wgDBtype = "mysql";

$wgDBserver = "localhost";

$wgDBname = "mediawiki_db";

$wgDBuser = "mediawiki";

$wgDBpassword = "xxxxxxxxxxxxxx";

# MySQL specific settings

$wgDBprefix = "";

# MySQL table options to use during installation or update

$wgDBTableOptions = "ENGINE=InnoDB, DEFAULT CHARSET=binary";

## Shared memory settings

$wgMainCacheType = CACHE_ACCEL;

$wgMemCachedServers = [];

## To enable image uploads, make sure the 'images' directory

## is writable, then set this to true:

$wgEnableUploads = true;

$wgUseImageMagick = true;

$wgImageMagickConvertCommand = "/usr/bin/convert";

# InstantCommons allows wiki to use images from https://commons.wikimedia.org

$wgUseInstantCommons = false;

# Periodically send a pingback to https://www.mediawiki.org/ with basic data

# about this MediaWiki instance. The Wikimedia Foundation shares this data

# with MediaWiki developers to help guide future development efforts.

$wgPingback = true;

## If you use ImageMagick (or any other shell command) on a

## Linux server, this will need to be set to the name of an

## available UTF-8 locale

$wgShellLocale = "C.UTF-8";

## Set $wgCacheDirectory to a writable directory on the web server

## to make your wiki go slightly faster. The directory should not

## be publicly accessible from the web.

#$wgCacheDirectory = "$IP/cache";

# Site language code, should be one of the list in ./languages/data/Names.php

$wgLanguageCode = "en";

$wgSecretKey = "a42bf869b17c21f4db6a80fbfdef8a60ca5771340a9e00102f8d2e9723e5fd1e";

# Changing this will log out all existing sessions.

$wgAuthenticationTokenVersion = "1";

# Site upgrade key. Must be set to a string (default provided) to turn on the

# web installer while LocalSettings.php is in place

$wgUpgradeKey = "28bb8e45f03d8c93";

## For attaching licensing metadata to pages, and displaying an

## appropriate copyright notice / icon. GNU Free Documentation

## License and Creative Commons licenses are supported so far.

$wgRightsPage = ""; # Set to the title of a wiki page that describes your license/copyright

$wgRightsUrl = "";

$wgRightsText = "";

$wgRightsIcon = "";

# Path to the GNU diff3 utility. Used for conflict resolution.

$wgDiff3 = "/usr/bin/diff3";

# The following permissions were set based on your choice in the installer

$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false;

$wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false;

$wgGroupPermissions['*']['read'] = false;

## Default skin: you can change the default skin. Use the internal symbolic

## names, ie 'vector', 'monobook':

$wgDefaultSkin = "vector";

# Enabled skins.

# The following skins were automatically enabled:

wfLoadSkin( 'MonoBook' );

wfLoadSkin( 'Timeless' );

wfLoadSkin( 'Vector' );

# Enabled extensions. Most of the extensions are enabled by adding

# wfLoadExtensions('ExtensionName');

# to LocalSettings.php. Check specific extension documentation for more details.

# The following extensions were automatically enabled:

wfLoadExtension( 'MultimediaViewer' );

wfLoadExtension( 'PdfHandler' );

wfLoadExtension( 'WikiEditor' );

# End of automatically generated settings.

# Add more configuration options below.

Thank you for looking, the file is as generated the only manual edit I made is the $wgServer value.

I also had to remove the <?php first line in order to post it here.

Thanks

That's very weird. Are you sure you don't have like 2 mediawiki installs and are looking at the wrong LocalSettings.php or something like that? The only way you should get that error message is if the $wgServer variable is set to false (Which is its default starting out value).

I'm in. !!!!

Problem was somehow the settings file content was lost every time I was moving it in to place.

I copied and pasted the correct contents into the empty file already in place and now I'm in.

Thank you for looking.