MediaWiki-l April 2004

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How do I adjust the time on my Wiki?
by Tom Veidt 12 Apr '04

12 Apr '04

Hello, Just installed a Wiki a few days ago, works fine so far, but the time is set to GMT, but since this is a German Wiki most of my visitors would probably prefer CET. :) How would I be able to adjust the time Wiki-wide? (not just via user preferences) Thanks.

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Another user who can't install mediawiki
by Pietro Speroni di Fenizio 12 Apr '04

12 Apr '04

Hello List. My name is Pietro, and I have tried the whole day to install mediawiki without success. The main problem is that I don't have root access to the mysql. I am being hosted by: http://www.pchighway.com/ Which have some cool caratteristics (or so it seem at my inexperienced eyes): http://www.pchighway.com/hosting.htm and http://www.pchighway.com/plan_starter.htm PHP 4.3.3 (With Zend Optimizer 2.1.0) MySQL 4.0.15 (2 databases) OS Version FreeBSD 4.9 So, in theory I should have the cards to make the mediawiki work (which was the reason why I bought the account in the first place!) I'll explain all the relevant actions I did, so it is easier for you to help me: I downloaded mediawiki-1.2.3.tar.gz Untarred, and unzipped in my computer. ftp-ed in the directory /wiki (that is: http://www.mysite.org/wiki ) I changed the chmod so that anybody could do everything everywhere (is called trust), and I went to the directory /wiki You'll have to set the wiki up first! sure. MediaWiki 1.2.3 installation Checking environment... PHP 4.3.3 ok PHP server API is apache; ok, using pretty URLs (index.php/Page_Title) Have zlib support; enabling output compression. Found GD graphics library built-in, image thumbnailing will be enabled if you enable uploads. Installation directory: /usr/home/ourpieee/public_html/wiki Script URI path: /wiki I complete the form, except for the sqlroot that I don't have, and he does not like it. I go on the site and I create the database, and the user, and the password. SO now those things are created from outside. I go back to my form... and he stills asks me for the root password. I try to give him my user password, but he trats it as a random password (unpleasent after all the time I needed to think that up!) So I decide that I cannot use the install from the web, and I go to the file. And if before I had problem, now... wow! I take the AdminSettings.sample and LocalSetting.sample, change what I think is right: $wgDBadminuser = "pietrosperoni"; $wgDBadminpassword = "..." ;) Now, it seems that the problem comes here: I tried both: $IP = "/wiki"; $IP = "/wiki/includes"; And I got: ------------------------------- Warning: main(): open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/wiki/includes/DefaultSettings.php) is not within the allowed path(s): (.:/tmp:/home:/usr/local/lib/php:/usr/home:/usr/local/bin/) in /usr/home/ourpieee/public_html/wiki/LocalSettings.php on line 32 Warning: main(/wiki/includes/DefaultSettings.php): failed to open stream: Operation not permitted in /usr/home/ourpieee/public_html/wiki/LocalSettings.php on line 32 Warning: main(): Failed opening '/wiki/includes/DefaultSettings.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /usr/home/ourpieee/public_html/wiki/LocalSettings.php on line 32 Warning: main(Setup.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /usr/home/ourpieee/public_html/wiki/index.php on line 49 Warning: main(): Failed opening 'Setup.php' for inclusion (include_path='/wiki/includes:.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /usr/home/ourpieee/public_html/wiki/index.php on line 49 Fatal error: Call to undefined function: wfprofilein() in /usr/home/ourpieee/public_html/wiki/index.php on line 51 ---------------------- As soon as I entered in the wiki directory. What should I do? BTW, the frontend panel of the sql has all sort of privileges that can be granted to users: User: ourpieee_wikiuse Db: ourpieee_wikidb Privileges: ALL ALTER CREATE TEMPORARY TABLES CREATE DELETE DROP SELECT INSERT UPDATE REFERENCES INDEX LOCK TABLES I am very perplexed. Sorry if it was long, but I thought you probably needed all those data, to help me. MANY thanks for who ever can answer. Pietro __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online by April 15th http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html

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Problem populating new database
by Paul Hardwick 09 Apr '04

09 Apr '04

Hello Wikipedians, I am in the process of making a local mirror of the WikiPedia encyclopedia and seem to have hit a stumbling block. But first a related question. I have looked thru the software doc and the downloaded pages and haven't seen this but just want to make sure. I have the base software Ver 1.2.3 installed from the web interface. Only had one small but surmountable problem. When using IE 5.1.3 Under MacOS 9.0.4 I could not enter the name for the site. The field was overlaid by the info that should have been to its right. I switched to Netscape and then no problem. Now I am in the process of populating the database and was wondering if in the maintenance folder (or someplace else) there is a set of script to fetch and upload the actual base data content and then the weekly updates. I would like to keep this mirror up to date with the master copy. >From looking at mailing list archive I have seen it stated that there is no doc file explaining what each of the maint. scripts does, and looking them over hasn't yielded one to create/update the database. If one doesn't exist I am ready to do it manually. But in my first attempts I have hit a few problems. The first trick is getting the correct data to do the upload with. I found the dump D/L page and the files for the EN version of the database(dated 2004-04-03). The current one looks find and I have been able to retrieve it and do some(not all) processing with it. My first problem is the old database. It is my assumption that this contains the full database content (minus images) prior to the new data in the current file. I notice that the format of the old/full file has changed recently and grown a lot. I tried to D/L the full DB as the single file and failed (403 - not authorized) and this seems to not be unexpected since there is mention of the multi part files for those experiencing problems. The single files http://download.wikimedia.org/archives/en/20040403_cur_table.sql.bz2 and http://download.wikimedia.org/archives/en/20040403_old_table.sql.bz2 have names and formats that make sense to me. The partials have me confused, especially with my inability to decompress them. First there are only three files and based on the file sizes (and one unlisted file) it appears that there should be four. The first three come to exactly 2Gigs each, a mathematical oddity if that was all there was, but a fourth file would even it out nicely. First the files themselves have names that give no clue as to their contents. http://download.wikimedia.org/archives/en/xaa xab xac and the unlisted xad . What format are these and how should they be joined together? I copied them over via wget and then tried to merge and decompress them but failed. The command and response I tried(to verify before actual processing) was: ========= start of clip -bash-2.05b$ nice bzip2 -t xaa xab xac xad bzip2: xaa: file ends unexpectedly bzip2: xab: bad magic number (file not created by bzip2) bzip2: xac: bad magic number (file not created by bzip2) bzip2: xad: bad magic number (file not created by bzip2) You can use the `bzip2recover' program to attempt to recover data from undamaged sections of corrupted files. ========= end of clip Are these files damaged or am I just using the wrong software to do this? BTW I am on a RH9 system running PHP434, MySQL 4.0.18 and Apache 2 To try and continue my testing and make sure I had everything else in place I thought I'd try using the current file and see how that went. It might not be all the data but it would give me a taste of how things were going. The decompress went fine but I had a problem part way during the load. The data that did load was enough for me to do some minimal testing and verify that the software basically works and that I was close in doing the upload. The command I tried and the response I got was: ========= start of clip -bash-2.05b$ nice mysql -p -uxxxxxxx wikipedia < 20040403_cur_table.sql Enter password: ERROR 1153 at line 831: Got a packet bigger than 'max_allowed_packet' -bash-2.05b$========= end of clip What size should I be setting the 'max_allowed_packet' to? Thanks in advance for your help and for creating this software and its associated database. Paul http://PrivacyDigest.com/ Daily news from the privacy front. PS The ls -al for the data files I Downloaded is: -rw-r--r-- 1 wikipedia psacln 850374900 Apr 3 02:09 20040403_cur_table.sql -rw-r--r-- 1 wikipedia psacln 2000000000 Mar 22 17:32 xaa -rw-r--r-- 1 wikipedia psacln 2000000000 Mar 22 17:35 xab -rw-r--r-- 1 wikipedia psacln 2000000000 Mar 22 17:38 xac -rw-r--r-- 1 wikipedia psacln 1614740369 Mar 22 17:40 xad

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TeX-rendered formulae look "ugly"
by Simon Veith 08 Apr '04

08 Apr '04

Hello, I've managed to setup TeX with my local wiki (MediaWiki 1.2.3). At first, it worked (almost) fine, but some formulae couldn't be rendered, some could. I tried to "fix" this by using newer versions of tetex & co, but this didn't solve the problem. But now I have another problem: The generated TeX-PNGs look ugly, compared to those that were created before I changed to the new versions. Examples (generated from <math>1234{,}56</math>): >From my wiki: http://sveith.dyndns.org/8cwiki/upload/math/ec13bd79cd7914f84ee4eee6299b7c27 .png >From Wikipedia: http://de.wikipedia.org/math/ec13bd79cd7914f84ee4eee6299b7c27.png Switching back to the old version of tetex didn't help; it must be some setting deep in some configuration file. Has anyone got a clue? Thanks in advance Simon Veith

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GNU FDL footer
by Thomas Rother 07 Apr '04

07 Apr '04

Hi, is there a way how I can edit or disable the "GNU FDL license" footer? I don't need that because our Wiki is completely internal right now. ?? Thanks, 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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Help me Out !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by Prasad Yaramati 07 Apr '04

07 Apr '04

Hi everybody, Configure mediawiki-1.2.3 with Php - 4.3.2 mysql - 3.23.41 Linux - 7.2 Followed with Url : http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Running_MediaWiki_on_Linux. After install.php Got message like: MySQL root password (typing will be visible): Creating database... Do you want to create a sysop account? A sysop can protect, delete and undelete pages and ban users. Recomended. [Y/n] y Enter the username [Sysop]: sysop Enter the password: sysop Do you want to create a sysop+developer account? A developer can switch the database to read-only mode and run any type of query through a web interface. This account can also assign sysop access to other accounts. [Y/n] y Enter the username [Developer]: dev Enter the password: dev Initialising "MediaWiki" namespace... Reading....done Setting up....Done Processing...Done Writing...Done Writing to MediaWiki:All_messages Finished Adding indexes... Done. Browse "http://cmtest-server/mtiki/index.php" to test. Browse with hhtp://cmtest-server/mtiki/index.php Url blank page is displaying . Could you please help me out,in this concern. ??????????????????? Regards , Prasad.

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Database Messages
by Evan Prodromou 06 Apr '04

06 Apr '04

So, just did an upgrade to 1.2.3 from 1.1.0. Things work more or less OK, except for the database messages, which are seriously slowing down our site. Is there a way to turn on page transclusion (the {{msg:}} stuff) without also turning on database lookups for every single UI string? ~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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novice: securing in-place installation.
by Peter 06 Apr '04

06 Apr '04

Hi, I ran the in-place installation, and it went like a breeze. That said, I don't understand a couple of things... /var/www/wiki has a dump of the mediawiki-1.2.0 stable tar-ball. Ran through the basic install which means putting LocalSettings.php in the same directory as index.php (/var/www/wiki) I noticed that localsettings.php has the DB name, username and PW in it. If one is readable, won't the other be as well ? Is that safe?

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1.2.3: Localisation not working?
by Thomas Rother 03 Apr '04

03 Apr '04

Hi, I just upgraded a mediawiki 1.2.1 to 1.2.3 throughthe classical method (Shell, "php update.php"), now I have two problems: a) The localisation does not work. I have ## If you want a non-English wiki, add a line like this $wgLanguageCode = "de"; in LocalSettings.php. But the "Startpage" still appears in english. b) The old entries are gone although they are still present in the database tables. I assume this has to do with a) as the renaming of "Hauptseite" to "Startpage" causes brooken links to the subsequent pages... The messages from update.php were Copying files... ok Checking database for necessary updates... Updating ipblocks table... ok ...already have interwiki table ...indexes seem up to 20031107 standards ...linkscc table possibly corrupt, redefining... Adding linkscc table... ok Adding hitcounter table... ok Adding rc_type, rc_moved_to_ns, rc_moved_to_title...ok Initialising "MediaWiki" namespace... Reading....done Setting up....Done Processing...Done Writing...Done Writing to MediaWiki:All_messages Finished Done. intraweb:/tmp/mediawiki-1.2.3 # mc Any ideas? Greetings, 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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max_user_connections <-> 20 simultaneous MySQL connections <-> delayed inserts
by Joachim Schiele 02 Apr '04

02 Apr '04

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 dear wiki list, i got this problem as described in the mail below which i marked as reply. can someone please give me advice here? thanks very much so far - wiki is running - except this thing - well with sourceforge ;-) Joachim Schiele Where can i change the code to not have the delaying code? The problem is that the wiki goes offline for over a few hours sometimes :P ========================<mail>================= > Dear sf team, > we got much problems with the mysql server because > sometimes it's not responding as expected - so not > working. We are working with a wiki* which has a mysql > backend and it happened 3 times last week that it didn't > work. I think it's because of the mysql service overload. > *mediawiki from the wikipedia > If i try to create a backup i get: > [qknight@sc8-pr-shell1 mysql_backup]$ ./backup.sh > mysqldump: Got error: 1203: User lmuse@ has already > more than "max_user_connections" active connections > when trying to connect > seems to me as if there is some 'overload' > What wrong here? Normaly the wiki does it's work quite > nice. > Thank you very much, > Joachim Schiele > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Comment By: Jacob Moorman (moorman) > Date: 2004-04-02 12:42 > Greetings, > We permit up to 20 simultaneous MySQL connections per > project at a time. This is mainly to prevent abuse. > Something your application is doing (or one of the other > scripts you run) must be causing threads to hang. Chances > are high that it is delayed inserts. Please remove the > delayed clause from all of your queries (or otherwise > disable delayed ops via flag if your application provides one). > Should you require further assistance from the > SourceForge.net team, please add a comment to this request. > Thank you, > Jacob Moorman > Quality of Service Manager, SourceForge.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAbc52yzk1c1T5Os4RAifKAJ49nsGPEk4EPd+Wyw1hqbtG+HY1ogCgg4QX lcAb3wt1kejzl/PwTOfqKtc= =ZBS/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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