MediaWiki-l April 2004

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Problem with Apache2, MySql, Windows2000 installation
by Maurizio Balestrieri 01 May '04

01 May '04

Hello! After a successful installation (I mean the successful execution of the config.php script), I'm stuck at the point where I move the LocalSettings.php file in the Wiki root and then I access the index.php file. At this point I systematically get the "noconnect" message ("cannot contact the server ..."). What surprises me, is why it claims it cannot connect while it has connected few seconds before (and even created a database with tables)?? Any help will be very much appreciated :) Thanks. -- Franco

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migrating mediawiki
by Obando, David DE - EV 29 Apr '04

29 Apr '04

Hello, currently I'm using Mediawiki 1.1.0 on a linux (debian) server. I want to migrate the wiki to another server (also debian) and would like to update the wiki to the current version 1.2.4. Is it possible to upgrade the wiki and use the old database? How do I migrate? I tried to dump and import the db and just copied the wiki-webtree but that didn't work. Thanks, David David Obando Webmaster/Systemadministrator

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Problem with Apache2, MySql, Windows2000 installation
by Franco Stellin 28 Apr '04

28 Apr '04

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Problem uploading files
by Manuel Schmidt 27 Apr '04

27 Apr '04

Hello list, i have a problem with uploading files. I have editet the LocalSettings.php and insertet $wgDisableUploads = false; Then i chmod my images dir to 777. Of Course meanwhile i uploaded the new LocalSettings.php. But If i want to upload a *.jpg i get errores like this: Warning: is_dir() [function.is-dir]: SAFE MODE Restriction in effect. The script whose uid is 10731 is not allowed to access /home/www/htdocs/bsdhq.de/_wiki/images/6 owned by uid 30 in /home/www/htdocs/bsdhq.de/_wiki/includes/GlobalFunctions.php on line 452 Warning: mkdir() [function.mkdir]: SAFE MODE Restriction in effect. The script whose uid is 10731 is not allowed to access /home/www/htdocs/bsdhq.de/_wiki/images/6 owned by uid 30 in /home/www/htdocs/bsdhq.de/_wiki/includes/GlobalFunctions.php on line 452 Warning: move_uploaded_file() [function.move-uploaded-file]: SAFE MODE Restriction in effect. The script whose uid is 10731 is not allowed to access /home/www/htdocs/bsdhq.de/_wiki/images/6 owned by uid 30 in /home/www/htdocs/bsdhq.de/_wiki/includes/SpecialUpload.php on line 155 The is_dir() and mkdir() Warings com on the Lines: 472 and 274 as well. Finally the wiki itself reports an error like : Konnte Datei "/home/www/htdocs/bsdhq.de/tmp/phptqUinX" nicht nach "/home/www/htdocs/bsdhq.de/_wiki/images/6/6e/Absolute_openbsd.jpg" kopieren which is german and says couldnt copy. =) ... what am i doing wrong here ? the wiki runs in subdir of the webroot. as u can see this is /_wiki/ could this be a problem ? -- Best regards, Manuel mailto:schmidtma@bsdhq.de

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rebuildMessages.php
by Thomas Rother 26 Apr '04

26 Apr '04

Hi, I have a problem with the following task (From http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_i18n) in mediawiki 1.2.4: 2) Run maintenance/rebuildMessages.php to re-import the messages. You'll have to temporarily take out the maintenance script warning in your LocalSettings.php to run it, probably. It needs to be run from the command line. (This'll be cleaner in 1.3.x...) When I start this script from the shell (php rebuildMessages.php), nothing happens, but I see no error msgs in the php log. And whats that "maintenance script warning in your LocalSettings.php"? I can't find that ... I have a wiki which was installed with $wgUseDatabaseMessages = false; I now switched to "true" and want to re-import the german messages into the database and then work on the user interface. By the way: Is there any documentation for the maintenance scripts at all? I could not find an overview about when to use which script... Thanks & Bye, Thommie -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- THOMAS M. ROTHER * n e t z w i s s e n . d e * D-73728 Esslingen F.R. Germany, European Union * mailto:t.rother@netzwissen.de http://www.netzwissen.de * GPG Key from http://wwwkeys.de.pgp.net GPG Fingerprint B208 E204 4249 4635 19B9 B691 3E73 C8B9 1229 DE4C ---------------------------------------------------------------------

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Populating DB (follow up)
by Paul Hardwick 25 Apr '04

25 Apr '04

Helo agion, Sorry for the delay but life interfered with my working on this for a bit. Just thought I'd pass along the results of my trying to Populate the database, and getting past the "ERROR 1153 at line 831: Got a packet bigger than 'max_allowed_packet' " error I was receiving. Maybe the info will save someone else the time. Short version - The parm exists on both the client and server. I had to update the server not the client. BTW I am running MySQL 4.0.18 and PHP 4.3.4 under Apache 2.0.40 Paul ======================================= OK try and load update file nice mysql -p -uusername dbname < 20040403_cur_table.sql -bash-2.05b$ nice mysql -p -username DBname < 20040403_cur_table.sqlEnter password: ERROR 1153 at line 831: Got a packet bigger than 'max_allowed_packet' -bash-2.05b$ ==== ran for 25+ minutes Then died ============================================================================== OK try #2 Friday, April 9, 2004-1:53 AM Added maxAllowedPacket nice mysql -p -uusername --max_allowed_packet=24M DBname < 20040403_cur_table.sql -bash-2.05b$ nice mysql -p -username --max_allowed_packet=24M DBname < 20040403_cur_table.sql Enter password: ERROR 1153 at line 831: Got a packet bigger than 'max_allowed_packet' -bash-2.05b$ ============= failed at 24Meg lets try 64 Meg -bash-2.05b$ nice mysql -p -username --max_allowed_packet=64M DBname < 20040403_cur_table.sql Enter password: ERROR 1153 at line 831: Got a packet bigger than 'max_allowed_packet' -bash-2.05b$ ============= failed at 64Meg http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Packet_too_large.html Checked Doc further and found out that the same parm exists on both server and client and I had only been updating the client - now I'll do the server By adding (/etc/my.cnf): [mysqld] max_allowed_packet=16M =============file is now -bash-2.05b$ more my.cnf [mysqld] datadir=/var/lib/mysql socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock query_cache_type=1 query_cache_size=10m max_allowed_packet=16M [mysql.server] user=mysql basedir=/var/lib [safe_mysqld] err-log=/var/log/mysqld.log pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid -bash-2.05b$ ==================== After updating Server to max_allowed_packet=16M -bash-2.05b$ nice mysql -p -username DBname < 20040403_cur_table.sql Enter password: -bash-2.05b$ :) It works!! :-)

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Moving DB from Server without Shell?
by Manuel Schmidt 25 Apr '04

25 Apr '04

Hello List, I have the mediawiki.1.2.3 installed and its running fine. Now i m starting to add Content. But i maybe will want to switch to a new Serverin some months. My question now is, how hard is it to move a wiki without having a console to the server where it runs on? Can i just install the same version on the other server, Dump my existing DB through PHPMyAdmin and pussh it into the new DB and have all the Content? Maybe this sounds silly to you, but i could not find information about this in the mediawiki users guide. And i want to be sure about this before i start adding content. If there is Information about moving mediawikis from servers in the documentaion please point me there. -- Best regards, Manuel mailto:schmidtma@bsdhq.de

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relation
by Pietro Speroni di Fenizio 24 Apr '04

24 Apr '04

Now that the wiki is up and running I have a couple of questions. The first is about having two wiki running on the same set of include files. The second about having the same wiki being accessed from two different places on the net. 1) would it be possible to run more than one wiki on the same basic files? How should I modify the LocalSettings to create the new wiki? DO I have to generate a new Database and a new user of the database? 2) I am interested in accessing the same wiki from two different location. One would be the basic location (with a name easy to remember), and the second would be as a subdirectory of my webpage. Would that be possible? I tried to copy all the files on the directory /wiki to another directory /wok and the subdirectory images and and stylesheet and the whole thing appeared to be accessible both at /wiki and /wok. This is interesting in itself (as a partial answer to the second question), but is ite safe to do so? Many thanks for any answer, Pietro __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos: High-quality 4x6 digital prints for 25� http://photos.yahoo.com/ph/print_splash

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{{msg:}} and database messages
by Evan Prodromou 23 Apr '04

23 Apr '04

Is it at all possible to turn on the {{msg:}} transclusion without having the database messages on? We had {{msg:}} transclusion enabled on Wikitravel up until moving to MediaWiki 1.2.x, after which I had to turn on the DB messages, too, to have this work. We _don't_ have memcache up, and I don't really have the wherewithal to get it working. Retrieving all the interface messages from the DB for every single page hit is inestimably wasteful, and has measurable time costs. Any help appreciated. ~ESP -- Evan Prodromou <evan(a)wikitravel.org> Wikitravel - http://www.wikitravel.org/ The free, complete, up-to-date and reliable world-wide travel guide

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RE: [Mediawiki-l] Linux install == blank page UPDATE
by Mike Dickson 23 Apr '04

23 Apr '04

Hi there >Could you also try grabbing /index.php/Main_Page directly? Also try >Special:Specialpages. > >Also try index.php?title=Main_Page, index.php?title=Special:Specialpages None of these produced any result. The log files are all the same, except for the Request bit. >Does the redirect work (it should return a 301 'moved' response with a >Location: header pointing to the canonical name of the page when you >grab the initial page without givign a title). Try doing the requests >directly in telnet, using a packet sniffer, or the 'Live HTTP headers' >to make sure the correct response comes back and that the given URL is >complete and correct. I think you're going to have to assume I know a little less than you on this stuff :( ...Mike -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com) _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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