MediaWiki-l February 2004

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I don't see TOC when I'm not logged in.
by M.Alberto 29 Feb '04

29 Feb '04

MediaWiki: 1.2.0rc1 PHP: 4.3.4 MySQL: 3.23.58 I can see TOC only when I'm logged in. How can I enable it for anonymous users? Thank you. Regards. Alberto. -- http://iperappunti.homeip.net

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Struggling with math
by Robert Webster 29 Feb '04

29 Feb '04

I've been stuggling to get MediaWiki to properly render equations. I'm running Slackware 9.1 with PHP4.3.3, Apache 1.3.28, and MySQL 4.0.15. I can generate proper png files running texvc from the command line. The same command run from exec( ) in a php script will put the png file in the upload/math directory when run from the command line as root. But that same test script fails with a "dvips: Problems with file writing; probably disk full" error when run from the browser (or from the command line as nobody). The directory permissions seem OK. wiki/upload, wiki/upload/tmp, and wiki/upload/math are all owned by nobody:nobody and set to 777. (I've also tried 766 to no avail). I noticed a similar problem mentioned in the Wikitech list http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2003-May/003832.html but without a resolution. Suggestions will be much appreciated. Thanks, Robert Webster

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Re: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
by Sheldon Rampton 28 Feb '04

28 Feb '04

Brion Vibber wrote: >The install script currently is a little fascistic. ;) It assumes you >have total control over your system: >* shell access >* command-line PHP interpreter >* root access to the MySQL server >* will be installing into a fresh database to be created, which will >have nothing else in it I had everything on the list EXCEPT root access to the MySQL server, which as my revision demonstrated, really isn't necessary for the install script to work. Wouldn't it be a good idea to make the install script less fascistic? --Sheldon

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MediaWiki 1.2.0rc1 release candidate
by Brion Vibber 28 Feb '04

28 Feb '04

MediaWiki 1.2.0rc1 is now available for download at: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=34373 This is a release candidate, and may contain a few rough edges still. Those feeling adventurous, please try it out -- on a safe server after backing up all your data -- and please report any exciting new problems. If we don't hear about your problems, they'll never get fixed! A few notes: * Things should again work out of the box with MySQL 3.x (though 4.x is preferred). * We are now compatible with short_open_tag = Off * wiki.phtml and redirect.phtml have now become index.php and redirect.php to improve compatibility. The old names are still available for compatibility, so you don't have to change your configuration for existing installs. If you're mixing other stuff in with the wiki's install directory, please be sure this doesn't conflict with other existing files! * Installation now prompts you to ask if you want to create a sysop or developer account and lets you pick the name and password instead of using the AdminSettings.php defaults. * A new page, Special:Version lists the MediaWiki, PHP, and MySQL version numbers. Please don't forget to note these when reporting bugs! We tend to track current production releases of PHP and MySQL, and sometimes things break on older or experimental versions of these that we don't always see. Database messages are now on by default, you can turn this off if the performance hit is too great. We hope to improve the speed of this soon. A couple things we don't have in yet: * We don't yet have an installer that's friendly to those without shell access, sorry. Hopefully we'll have something for 1.2.0 final. * We still require register_globals = On. * No PHP5 compatibility. I know there are a few keyword conflicts which should be easy to fix, but we haven't tested this yet. See the file RELEASE-NOTES for a bit on the new features and bug fixes. You can report problems at SourceForge at: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=34373&atid=411192 -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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mod_rewrite snarfs image uploads and stylesheet(?) snarfs on Mozilla
by Calum Galleitch 28 Feb '04

28 Feb '04

(take two) Hi there, I've got Mediawiki 1.1.0 installed and running happily except for: 1) URL rewriting and image uploads. I've got the software installed in /w/, and articles are referenced by /wiki/Article_title. Now, when I upload an image, it arrives happily, sits in the upload directory, and disappears. The software trys to find /wiki/2/2d/image.jpg, but this gets automagically rewritten so that instead of pulling out the image, we get a blank article page called 2/2d/image.jpg. This sounds like it should be easily fixable, but I can't quite see how. The default stylesheet is quite badly confused on my default browser, Moz 1.2.1. Page breaks are thrown randomly across the screen and it's impossible to click anything on the top bar or in the article text. I assume it's a local problem, cos wikipedia itself is fine. Any clues? FWIW, it's fine with Konqueror. Any thoughts much appreciated :) Cheers, Calum

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Error in install script?
by Sheldon Rampton 28 Feb '04

28 Feb '04

FYI, I ran into an error the other day when I tried installing a new wiki using the MediaWiki software on a remote server. The error occurred on line 114 of install.php, which currently reads as follows: >$rconn = mysql_connect( $wgDBserver, "root", $rootpw ); I got it to work by changing the line to the following: >$rconn = mysql_connect( $wgDBserver, $wgDBuser, $rootpw ); --Sheldon Rampton

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Where can I download the last version of MediaWiki?
by M.Alberto 28 Feb '04

28 Feb '04

I have installed the sourceforge version, but it doesen't have some features that I need. I would like to use the same version of www.wikipedia.org Can you help me? My personal mediawiki is here : http://iperappunti.homeip.net Thank you. Alberto.

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Install MediaWiki on remote Webserver
by Gerold Meisinger 26 Feb '04

26 Feb '04

Thanks, it works now! But I have a new problem. How do I administrate the Wiki? It seems there are two users called "WikiDeveloper" and "WikiSysop", but no user which I specified in the AdminSettings.php (whats that good for then?). What are the passwords for them?

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External Authentication for MediaWiki?
by A Chan 25 Feb '04

25 Feb '04

Hello, Has anyone tried to use an external authentication product with MediaWiki? We have an authentication product we are using with our existing applications, and ideally we would like single sign-on (SSO) capability to include MediaWiki. Does this seem feasible? I'm assuming we would need to make custom changes to our MediaWiki installation. Thanks for your help, -Amy

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Install MediaWiki on remote Webserver
by Gerold Meisinger 22 Feb '04

22 Feb '04

Hi all! I friend of mine bought a remote webserver and gave me access to it. Now i wanted to install MediaWiki on that webserver. First I uploaded all files to the directory "mediawikiinst" and updated LocalSetting.php and AdminSettings.php. The install.php will now "install" MediaWiki to the directory "mediawiki" (is this right to do so?), but I ran into several problems: PHP: 4.3.4 MySQL: 3.23.54 Webserver, OS: dunno (is there a way to find that out, f.e. read the header etc.?) 1. I can't start php from console. That was no big problem, I just commented out the readconsole function in install.php and used a default value. 2. I can't create users and grant them rights. I changed the line "$rconn = mysql_connect( $wgDBserver, "root", $rootpw );" [98] to my user and commented out "dbsource( "./maintenance/users.sql", $rconn );", because I'm not allowed to grant anything. This may be no problem, because my user is allowed to do everything else, like select and update the database. 3. All .phmtl files are empty. I uploaded the standard .phtml files to the "mediawiki" directory. 4. Fatal error: Call to undefined function: getallheaders() in /kunden/muddasheep.com/darrn/mediawiki/wiki.phtml on line 23 How do I solve problem #4 and are all my other steps possibly? PS: I can't change anything in the config files of php, mysql, server etc. Thx in advance!

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