My webhost has just transferred one server to another, and in the process decided to run PHP as cgi! I no longer have pretty urls. Is there anything I can do about this?
As some of you might know, I have had severe problems installing
Mediawiki 1.3.3 on a Solaris 9 box running Apache.
I have spent the better part of the evening trying to debug this
problem, and has made some progress:
1) The first problem was that Php complained it could not find
DefaultSettings.php. This arose after I had pressed "Install!" on
wiki/config/index.php . In other words the bug was triggered by the
Eval($local) at around line 370 in index.php
It started to work when I altered this line in $local from
require_once( \"DefaultSettings.php\" );
to
require_once( \"includes/DefaultSettings.php\" );
It started to work. Somehow it seems like MediaWiki didn't honor the
include_path correctly.
2) My second problem is much stranger(!). (But this only happens on a
host which in running PHP 4.2.3, on another host with PHP 4.3.8 it
doesn't happen.)
I started getting messages of the type:
Can't find a writable temp directory for the XHTML template. Check
that the TMP environment variable points to a writable directory, or
that the default temp dir (/tmp) exists and is writable.
This is probably correct, I have no write access to /tmp, nor is any
TMP variable set for PHP to point somewhere else. Is this needed for
running MediaWiki?
I traced the error into Parser.php, InitialiseFromUser and the line:
$this->mSkin =& $user->getSkin();
When I commented out this line it got all the way through until a
MySQL error (which is not related to this at all.)
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Regards
Johan Seland
Hello all,
I am trying to figure out a way to include a PHP script within either
my template (under navigation) or in a wiki page.
2 thing I am trying to accomplish.
1. Parse a RSS feed from another site to display it on mine.
2. Put the latest Forum posts from my boards on the wiki main page.
Can these be accomplished? I've been pulling my hair out for 3 hours
now and haven't come up with a solution.
Thanks,
Shane
Hi,
Is there a good way to convert HTML formatted pages into the Wiki
format?
Thanks,
Chuck Bishop
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I get intermittent "pear_error" messages while trying to load any page
of my wiki? Sometimes a reload or a backup and retry fixes the problem
but often a dozen retries does not get the page. This is terribly
frustrating so I would appreciate any clue about how to address this
problem. Is there some place I should look or someplace else that I
should ask?
Help. Please.
Dick
In some of the other php/sql applications I've been using, they have
simple utility for backing-up and restoring the sql database
(probably written for the use of those unfamiliar with the
intricacies of sql programming/operation like myself). Is there any
similar utility for Mediawiki?
Randy McCall
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Wouldn't it make sense to have a wiki about installing, configuring,
and using MediaWiki? Somebody must have had this idea before, so either
it's there already or else there is some reason it should not be there,
right? My thought is that subscribers to this list would notice the
material of non-transient value and stick it into the wiki for
convenient access, creating a resource better than searching the
archives of the mailing list. What am I missing?
Dick
Some pages in my wiki are loaded from preexisting files which include
indented text. Putting such text in dashed boxes messes up the
document. I think I could use <pre> tags but I believe that would
prevent the text from reformatting to fit smaller or larger windows, Is
there another way to avoid the boxing?
Dick
Hi,
What are the pros and cons on the choice of menu placement? Why at left?
For example, I would prefer the mediawiki menu to be placed at the right side
of the screen. Is anyone else who likes that placement?
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