MediaWiki-l November 2004

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How do I set an image thumbnail for a non image file (e.g. excel spread sheet)?
by Sam Stern 07 Nov '04

07 Nov '04

All, I run a corporate intranet Wiki. It's replacing an ageing Twiki install. Currently I have set MediaWiki to accept file types of doc, xls, vsd, mdb etc. However when I refer to a non image file like: [[image:plan.doc|Plan for making plans]] The link appears as a broken link -- e.g. displays the Red "X" and the Alt Text (although clicking the link actually does link to the correct file). Right now I'm making pages like this: == Project to save the world == [[image:process_flow.vsd|How to save the world - process flow]] [[image:role.doc|How to define your role in saving the world]] [[image:cost.xls|Current Budget for Saving the world]] <b> Editors note, please go ahead and click the above links. They appear to be broken but are not. </b> Now I do have small .gif files for each file type (e.g. the little green X for excel sheets) but cannot figure out how to get MediaWiki to display the correct generic thumb nail. Any help would be appreciated!! Sam Stern Baltimore, MD, USA

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Enotif 1.35 for MediaWiki 1.3.7 (a maintenance release)
by Thomas Gries 06 Nov '04

06 Nov '04

I fixed some minor problems in my Email Notification patch. Download http://www.tgries.de/mw/mw137+en135.tgz (this decompresses to a subdirectory testwiki/ ) Documentation http://meta.wikipedia.org/Enotif Bugzilla http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=454 Tom Berlin local time UTC+1 If you have questions, you can call me: +49 30 859 2873

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going for 1.4
by Ashar Voultoiz 06 Nov '04

06 Nov '04

Hello, Mail is probably mostly intended for brion and tim as well as other developers. It looks like our .plan is to get 1.4 by the end of the year. I believe we should call for a "feature freeze" soon and launch the beta at the beginning of december. Given that most dev will probably be out during the last weeks of december that will let us until ~ december 20th to fix the most important bugs. Then in January we can work toward the release candidate / 1.4.0. There is two huge patch as far as I know: - Enotif : bring email notification in MediaWiki _ Database schema change. Enotif can probably be commited by the end of november and be shipped in the first 1.4 beta. Database schema changes is probably too much work yet (note: I didn't have a look at SCHEMA branche). In conclusion: November: * add Enotif * try to update languages files December: * launch beta * fix major bugs reported * happy xmas January: * Release candidate (1.4.0) Then we can work on having plugins and schema changes. -- Ashar Voultoiz - WP++++ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Hashar

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installation weirdness
by John Michael Norvell 06 Nov '04

06 Nov '04

Several weeks ago, I installed mediawiki in my /home/john/public_html directory and then decided to move it, reinstalling it. I wiped out the original directory (/home/john/public_html/wiki), deleted the wikidb database, untarred mediawiki to /srv/www/htdocs/wiki. I ran the config script, which worked fine. When I try to go to the new wiki, I get this: Warning: main(/home/john/public_html/wiki/PHPTAL-NP-0.7.0/libs/GetText.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /tmp/tpl_0_7_0_19cad7a9135c88ef3048c7649d8c62ba.php on line 1 Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required '/home/john/public_html/wiki/PHPTAL-NP-0.7.0/libs/GetText.php' (include_path='.:/srv/www/htdocs/wiki:/srv/www/htdocs/wiki/includes:/srv/www/htdocs/wiki/languages') in /tmp/tpl_0_7_0_19cad7a9135c88ef3048c7649d8c62ba.php on line 1 Where is it getting this old info about the old installation location? I've repeated the whole thing several times, restarting myqld before reinstalling. Any ideas?? -- John M. Norvell Department of Anthropology William James Hall 314 33 Kirkland St. Harvard University Cambridge, MA 02138 Telephone: (617) 496-5690 Fax: (617) 496-8355 Email: norvell(a)fas.harvard.edu

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Really nice URLs?
by Jamie Bliss 05 Nov '04

05 Nov '04

How can I get the really nice URLs? eg, index.php/Special:Search?search=foo or [[Special:Search|search=foo|Search for foo]]. I see Wikipedia using this, but I don't know how I can. -- Jamie ------------------------------------------------------------------- http://endeavour.zapto.org/astro73/ Thank you to JosephM for inviting me to Gmail!

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Enotif (E-mail notification for changed pages and user_talk pages and more)
by Thomas Gries 05 Nov '04

05 Nov '04

On the main documentation page http://meta.wikipedia.org/Enotif , I opened a section "Reference list ..." where users, who actually use my patch, ***can place their comments and their name as references for my patch***. Please take note, that there are more pages such as one for reporting bugs. This should not go to the main page. Moreover - and this as a suggestion to all developers - my pages (at least) try to show a framework, how a good documentation can look like from the very beginning (Enotif is still in the beginning phase): a bugzilla listing for tracking, _and_ a meta-wiki documentation for reading and shameless editing for improvements. Tom

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[pear_error: message="failed to open stream: Permission denied" code=0 mode=return level=notice prefix="" info=""]
by solo turn 05 Nov '04

05 Nov '04

hi, i get for some pages: [pear_error: message="failed to open stream: Permission denied" code=0 mode=return level=notice prefix="" info=""] and for others not. the only thing i did was: 1. upload an image. 2. forget to check the copyright box 3. it came back with a title, but no filename filled in 4. i checked the copyright an pressed ok with an empty filename 5. upgrade from 1.3.3 or 1.3.6 (can't remember) to 1.3.7 by copying the tar file over the old one what could be the cause of the error, or how can i track this further down? i already checked /tmp permissions, images permission. -solo. ps: can you pls respond personally too, as i'm not yet subscribed to the list.

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rewrite and Main_Page failure on IE
by Gerard Braad (survion) 05 Nov '04

05 Nov '04

Hello, at the moment I'm trying to get rewriting to work. although, there seems to be a problem. when i open //domain.tld/wiki -> it rewrites to //domain.tld/wiki/ and therefore opens //domain.tld/wiki/Main_Page when i open this site in Mozilla there is nothing wrong... everything works. but when I try in IE, I get the Main_Page without any stylesheet. for some reason it tries to resolve these from: /stylesheets/ instead of /wiki/stylesheets/. when i change the page name to Main_Pag it does open correctly with stylesheets from /wiki/stylesheets/ in mozilla the page reads: Retrieved from "<a href="http://home.survion.com/wiki/Main_Page">http://home.survion.com/wiki/Main_Page</a>" in IE the same page reads: Retrieved from "<a href="http://home.survion.com//wiki/Main_Page">http://home.survion.com//wiki/Main_Page</a>" acces.log output: defiance - - [05/Nov/2004:14:07:49 +0100] "GET /wiki/Main_Page HTTP/1.1" 304 26 defiance - - [05/Nov/2004:14:07:52 +0100] "GET /stylesheets/commonPrint.css HTTP/1.1" 404 1182 defiance - - [05/Nov/2004:14:07:52 +0100] "GET /stylesheets/monobook/main.css HTTP/1.1" 404 1182 defiance - - [05/Nov/2004:14:07:52 +0100] "GET /stylesheets/monobook/IEFixes.css HTTP/1.1" 404 1182 defiance - - [05/Nov/2004:14:07:52 +0100] "GET /stylesheets/IEFixes.js HTTP/1.1" 404 1182 defiance - - [05/Nov/2004:14:07:54 +0100] "GET /stylesheets/wikibits.js HTTP/1.1" 404 1182 defiance - - [05/Nov/2004:14:07:54 +0100] "GET /stylesheets/images/poweredby_mediawiki_88x31.png HTTP/1.1" 404 1182 defiance - - [05/Nov/2004:14:07:54 +0100] "GET /wiki/upload/wiki.png HTTP/1.1" 304 - defiance - - [05/Nov/2004:14:07:55 +0100] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 994 and when I try to open a different page in IE, it reads: Retrieved from "<a href="http://home.survion.com/wiki/Main_Pag">http://home.survion.com/wiki/Main_Pag</a>" and the access.log output: defiance - - [05/Nov/2004:13:50:08 +0100] "GET /wiki/Main_Pag HTTP/1.1" 200 1672 defiance - - [05/Nov/2004:13:50:11 +0100] "GET /wiki/stylesheets/monobook/main.css HTTP/1.1" 304 - defiance - - [05/Nov/2004:13:50:11 +0100] "GET /wiki/stylesheets/commonPrint.css HTTP/1.1" 304 - defiance - - [05/Nov/2004:13:50:11 +0100] "GET /wiki/stylesheets/monobook/IEFixes.css HTTP/1.1" 304 - defiance - - [05/Nov/2004:13:50:11 +0100] "GET /wiki/stylesheets/IEFixes.js HTTP/1.1" 304 - defiance - - [05/Nov/2004:13:50:11 +0100] "GET /wiki/stylesheets/monobook/null?\"{ HTTP/1.1" 304 - defiance - - [05/Nov/2004:13:50:12 +0100] "GET /wiki/stylesheets/monobook/IE60Fixes.css HTTP/1.1" 304 - defiance - - [05/Nov/2004:13:50:12 +0100] "GET /wiki/stylesheets/wikibits.js HTTP/1.1" 304 - defiance - - [05/Nov/2004:13:50:12 +0100] "GET /wiki/stylesheets/monobook/bullet.gif HTTP/1.1" 304 - defiance - - [05/Nov/2004:13:50:13 +0100] "GET /wiki/stylesheets/monobook/user.gif HTTP/1.1" 304 - defiance - - [05/Nov/2004:13:50:13 +0100] "GET /wiki/stylesheets/images/wiki.png HTTP/1.1" 304 - defiance - - [05/Nov/2004:13:50:13 +0100] "GET /wiki/stylesheets/images/poweredby_mediawiki_88x31.png HTTP/1.1" 304 - defiance - - [05/Nov/2004:13:50:14 +0100] "GET /wiki/stylesheets/images/wiki.png HTTP/1.1" 304 - defiance - - [05/Nov/2004:13:50:14 +0100] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 994 the following is in the vhost-domain.tld.conf (part of the full apache httpd.conf): <VirtualHost forum:80> php_flag register_globals off ServerName domain.tld ServerAlias www.domain.tld home.domain.tld ServerAdmin someone(a)domain.tld DocumentRoot /home/sites/domain.tld/home/web/ RewriteEngine on RewriteLogLevel 0 #RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/misc/.* #RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/images/.* RewriteRule ^/site(.*) /home/zope/zope.fcgi/VirtualHostBase/http/%{HTTP_HOST}:80/Sites/domain.tld/home/VirtualHostRoot/_vh_site/$1 [L] # rewrite to Main_Page #RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/wiki$ #RewriteRule ^/wiki(.*) /wiki/index.php?tile=Main_Page [L] # no rewrite for subdirectories RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/wiki/(stylesheets|images|skins|upload)/ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/wiki/(redirect|texvc|index).php RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/wiki/error/(40(1|3|4)|500).html RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/wiki/favicon.ico RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/wiki/robots.txt # query string RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$ [OR] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/wiki/Special:Search # main rewrite rule RewriteRule ^/wiki/(.*) /wiki/index.php/$1 [L] RewriteLog /home/sites/domain.tld/home/log/rewrite.log ErrorLog /home/sites/domain.tld/home/log/error.log CustomLog /home/sites/domain.tld/home/log/access.log common </VirtualHost> and this is in the LocalSettings.php from mediawiki: $wgScriptPath = "/wiki"; $wgScript = "$wgScriptPath/"; $wgRedirectScript = "redirect.php"; $wgArticlePath = "$wgScript$1"; $wgStylePath = "$wgScriptPath/stylesheets"; $wgStyleDirectory = "$IP/stylesheets"; $wgLogo = "$wgStylePath/images/wiki.png"; $wgUploadPath = "$wgScriptPath/images"; $wgUploadDirectory = "$IP/images"; does anyone have an idea of what might go wrong? this is a IE only matter as it seems... any help would be appreciated. greets, Gerard -- Gerard Braad - 'Smartass with attitude' http://gbraad.spotsnel.nl/ mailto:g_braad@spotsnel.nl jabber:g_braad@spotsnel.nl telephone: +31 87 1901 799

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Some Solaris installation progress
by poster 05 Nov '04

05 Nov '04

Hey all, I'm still having trouble installing MediaWiki on a Solaris machine. I've got someone with more coding experience helping me out. I've posted his latest problem below, please advise. Thanks The installation seems to be working now. The problem with those "constant already defined" and duplicate namespace warnings and errors seems to be an issue with relative pathnames and the require_once statement. I made these changes to config/index.php: # require_once( "../includes/DefaultSettings.php" ); # require_once( "../includes/MagicWord.php" ); # require_once( "../includes/Namespace.php" ); require_once( "/absolute/path/to/includes/DefaultSettings.php" ); require_once( "/absolute/path/to/includes/MagicWord.php" ); require_once( "/absolute/path/to/includes/Namespace.php" ); And then the configure/install started working. Here's the output (on Solaris/SunOS 5.9): MediaWiki 1.3.7 installation Please include all of the lines below when reporting installation problems. Checking environment... * PHP 4.3.8: ok * Warning: PHP's register_globals option is enabled. MediaWiki will work correctly, but this setting increases your exposure to potential security vulnerabilities in PHP-based software running on your server. You should disable it if you are able. * PHP server API is apache; ok, using pretty URLs (index.php/Page_Title) * Have XML / Latin1-UTF-8 conversion support. * PHP's memory_limit is 16M. If this is too low, installation may fail! Attempting to raise limit to 20M... ok. * Have zlib support; enabling output compression. * Found GD graphics library built-in, image thumbnailing will be enabled if you enable uploads. * Installation directory: XXX/mediawiki * Script URI path: /mediawiki * MySQL error 1045: Access denied for user: 'root(a)207.228.226.7' (Using password: NO) * Trying regular user... ok. * Connected to database... 4.0.20-log; enabling MySQL 4 enhancements * Database XXX exists * Creating tables... done. * Initializing data... * Created sysop account XXX. * Initialising log pages... * Initialising "MediaWiki" namespace... Clearing message cache...Done. Creating LocalSettings.php... Success! Move the LocalSettings.php file into the parent directory, then follow this link to your wiki. When move LocalSettings.php and follow that link, first I get the expected redirect to http://ourdomain/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page, but then when I go to that page, I don't get anything back. Here's the exact output from the server: $ curl -i http://domain/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:08:39 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.31 (Unix) mod_jk/1.2.5 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 mod_fastcgi/2.4.2 mod_throttle/3.1.2 PHP/4.3.8 mod_ssl/2.8.18 OpenSSL/0.9.7d X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.8 Vary: Accept-Encoding,Cookie Expires: -1 Cache-Control: private, must-revalidate, max-age=0 Last-modified: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 19:13:27 GMT Content-language: en Connection: close Transfer-Encoding: chunked Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 And that's it. No html, no body, no errors. I've enabled mediawiki debugging, and here's the log: Start request GET /mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, */* Host: domain Pragma: no-cache User-Agent: curl/7.10.8 (sparc-sun-solaris2.9) libcurl/7.10.8 OpenSSL/0.9.7d ipv6 zlib/1.1.4 SQL: SELECT cur_text FROM cur WHERE cur_namespace='8' AND cur_title='Linktrail' LIMIT 1 SQL: DELETE FROM objectcache WHERE exptime<'2004-10-28 20:08:41' SQL: SELECT value,exptime FROM objectcache WHERE keyname='our_db:messages' SQL: SELECT 1 FROM user_newtalk WHERE user_ip='XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX' Servr: http://domain SQL: BEGIN SQL: SELECT cur_id FROM cur WHERE cur_namespace=0 AND cur_title='Main_Page' SQL: SELECT cur_touched,cur_is_redirect FROM cur WHERE cur_id=5 We're confused. tryFileCache() - not cacheable SELECT cur_text,cur_timestamp,cur_user,cur_user_text,cur_comment,cur_counter,cur_restrictions,cur_touched FROM cur WHERE cur_id=5 SQL: SELECT cur_text,cur_timestamp,cur_user,cur_user_text,cur_comment,cur_counter,cur_restrictions,cur_touched FROM cur WHERE cur_id=5 SQL: SELECT lcc_cacheobj FROM linkscc WHERE lcc_pageid = 5 SQL: SELECT ss_total_views, ss_total_edits, ss_good_articles FROM site_stats WHERE ss_row_id=1 SQL: UPDATE cur SET cur_counter = cur_counter + 1 WHERE cur_id = 5 SQL: COMMIT ** private caching; Thu, 28 Oct 2004 19:13:27 GMT ** SQL: SELECT cur_id FROM cur WHERE cur_namespace=2 AND cur_title='XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX' SQL: SELECT cur_id FROM cur WHERE cur_namespace=1 AND cur_title='Main_Page' SQL: BEGIN SQL: UPDATE LOW_PRIORITY site_stats SET ss_total_views=(ss_total_views+1),ss_total_edits=(ss_total_edits),ss_good_artic\ les=(ss_good_articles) WHERE ss_row_id=1 SQL: COMMIT SQL: BEGIN SQL: COMMIT Request ended normally I've also enabled PHP error logging, but nothing is written there. There don't appear to be any PHP errors. The SQL database access seems to be working. If I run the queries manually, I see the data. The site stats (ss_total_views) are being updated, even though the page isn't actually rendered. I've repeated the whole thing with language set to "en - English - Unicode" and to "en - English - Latin-1". Same results. And, finally, if I run the PHP from the command line, then it totally works! Something like this: $ export PATH_INFO="/Main_Page" $ php index.php <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en" dir="ltr"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"/> <meta name="KEYWORDS" content="Main Page" /> <meta name="robots" content="index,follow" /> <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" /> <title>Main Page - OurWiki</title> <style type="text/css" media="screen,projection">/*<![CDATA[*/ @import "/mediawiki/stylesheets/monobook/main.css"; /*]]>*/</style> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="print" href="/mediawiki/stylesheets/commonPrint.css"/> ... So it must be something to do with the environment where the web server is running (user "www", group "other"), but I have no idea how to debug this further. We don't have root access on the server, so I can't su to www and rerun the script from the command line. -- Rich Points Rich(a)RichPoints.com http://RichPoints.com -- Rich Points Rich(a)RichPoints.com http://RichPoints.com

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Compression
by Daniel Stiefelmaier 04 Nov '04

04 Nov '04

Hi! On #mediawiki <irc://irc.freenode.net/mediawiki> I was told that there is an option to activate compression on the data stored in the database. But the user didn't know how to activate that. Does someone of you know, where I can find this option? greets, Daniel

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