MediaWiki-l June 2004

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root and old images
by Forest 11 Jun '04

11 Jun '04

Hi, I just installed MediaWiki from cvs relatively painlessly, upgrading from 1.2.5 and following Brion's suggested path. I ran into a couple of minor issues, which should at least be noted in INSTALL. First, the username that I use to access mysql is not root, so I had to change index.php manually to fix that. Second, I had to do a manual copy of the uploaded files from my previous installation into /phase3/images. That's it! Thanks a lot for developing this software.

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Search and Special:All_pages problems
by Matias Pelenur 10 Jun '04

10 Jun '04

Hi all, I've been adding some content to a new wiki I started. The wiki is set up using the CVS phase3 tip. For some reason neither Search nor Special:All_pages is working. Search never finds anything, either as a direct title match or as a page text match. And All_pages lists only a single page. Perhaps a useful symptom is that when I search for anything, the search page says 'Search results: For query ""'; notice that they "for query" text has nothing. Also, even if I check the checkboxes for other namespaces, they appear unchecked when I re-do the search. I can see all the fields in the GET request so I'm not sure what's happening. Any hints or suggestions? For reference this wiki is at http://seattlewiki.org Thanks, Matias PS: "popular pages" and recent changes work just fine.

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looking for hints for system performance
by Matias Pelenur 10 Jun '04

10 Jun '04

Hi all, I've recently installed a MediaWiki 1.3.0beta2 system (off the CVS tip) and while it works nicely I want to make sure that my server is configured for best performance -- right now response time is not super fast. I'm running the site on a "virtual-server" 2GB 2-proc machine running Redhat 9. I have Apache 2.0.49, PHP 4.3.6, MySQL 4.0 stable. I installed all these myself and am using pretty much whatever the default configurations are. I wonder if in particular for MySQL (and perhaps Apache) I may have a very sub-optimal config. So I'm basically looking for hints on what configuration values people have used for MySQL (memory, buffer sizes, cache sizes, etc), PHP (mysql persistent connections or not?), Apache (threading module type, memory, caveats, etc etc) that have shown good improvements. Thanks in advance, Matias

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MySQL Root Problem
by Stephen Yeago 10 Jun '04

10 Jun '04

"You will only need this if the database and/or user account above don't already exist." On the config page for web install it says that MySQL root access is not neccessary if the account given checks fine, however the script stops and begins backtracing just after letting me know that the root password (I didn't give one) is denied. What confuses me is that the script sets up the database just fine, yet doesn't spit out LocalSettings. Could someone please assist me? I've written so many entries, and I'm dying to make them accessible. Below is the readout, thanks, -Steve * PHP 4.3.6 ok * PHP server API is cgi; using ugly URLs (index.php?title=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: /homepages/22/d94944393/htdocs/yeago.net/wiki * Script URI path: /wiki * MySQL error 1045: Access denied for user: 'root(a)infong223.kundenserver.de' (Using password: NO) * Trying regular user... ok. * Connected to database... 4.0.17-standard-log; enabling MySQL 4 enhancements * Database db95048066 exists * There are already MediaWiki tables in this database. Checking if updates are needed... ...ipblocks is up to date. ...already have interwiki table ...indexes seem up to 20031107 standards ...have linkscc table. ...linkscc is up to date, or does not exist. Good. ...have hitcounter table. Converting links table to ID-ID... No rows to convert. Updating schema... Dropping temporary links table if it exists... done. Creating temporary links table... done. Dropping backup links table if it exists... done. Swapping tables 'links' to 'links_backup'; 'links_temp' to 'links'... done. Conversion complete. The old table remains at links_backup; delete at your leisure. SQL error: Access denied for user: 'root(a)infong223.kundenserver.de' (Using password: NO) Backtrace: o Database.php line 205, in wfdebugdiebacktrace() o Database.php line 305, in database::fetchobject() o updaters.inc line 141, in database::fieldexists() o index.php line 407, in do_user_real_name_update()

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Missing TOC in MediaWiki 1.3.0b2
by Matt Kaufman 09 Jun '04

09 Jun '04

Hello- I just installed MediaWiki 1.3.0b2 and everything seems to be working with the exception of table of contents (TOC). Regardless of the setting in Special:Preferences, no page displays with a TOC or a link to expand the TOC. I am relatively new to this, so any info would be much appreciated. The math formulas are also not working, but I suspect that is because I do not have LaTex installed on the server. -Matt

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Developer user
by Paula de Waal 09 Jun '04

09 Jun '04

Hi, I have installed wikimedia at the universiti of Padova where we are starting a workshop about learning environments (The last stable version) but there are still some little problems and i would appreciate some help: 1- How can i setup a user with developer status? I did not find any clue about it. 2- Is it the categories feature supposed to be working in that version? I can create categories by marking new pages but the pages are not listed in the categories page. 3- how can i allow subpages in hte articles? Thank you Paula

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Changing gnunote and fromwikipedia/sitesubtitle
by Marian Aldenhövel 09 Jun '04

09 Jun '04

Hi, I have set up an installation of MediaWiki for internal communication within a development team. This is an experiment, but I think a Wiki is an excellent tool. I now would like to customize the appearance to better fit this application. Most notably I wanted to remove the line "..the free encyclopedia" and the note about content automatically being licensed unter the FDL as it is not true in my case. Question A: Is this legal under the license governing the use of MediaWiki? Question B: How do I do it? I tried changing the text in languages/LanguageDe.php to blank or to something else but this had no effect on the output. I grepped for "Wissensdatenbank" as it appears in my output and it is nowhere to be found but still appears on my Wiki-Pages in the sitesubtitle. Is that text stored anywhere else where I (or my grep) didn't look? I could also change the templates but I'd rather not from fear of breaking something. Ciao, MM -- Marian Aldenhövel, Rosenhain 23, 53123 Bonn. Fon +49 228 624013, Fax +49 228 624031. http://www.marian-aldenhoevel.de "Wie trennt man drei Schlampen von zwei Säufern? Cockpittüre zu!"

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Blank Page
by Marian Aldenhövel 09 Jun '04

09 Jun '04

Hi, I have set up a MediaWiki-Installation a few weeks ago to help communication between members of a distributed development team. The server is a machine running Debian Woody, and everything went absolutely silk-smooth. Now the wiki has suddenly quit. I cannot (of course) remember having changed anything around the system. No matter what kind of request I make the server now just returns a 200 result-code and no data. This is the output of FireFox Live-Headers: > http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/devel/index.php/Hauptseite > > GET /devel/index.php/Hauptseite HTTP/1.1 > Host: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx > User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) > Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8 > Accept: > text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,video/x-mng,image/png,image/jpeg,image/gif;q=0.2,*/*;q=0.1 > Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5 > Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate > Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 > Keep-Alive: 300 > Connection: keep-alive > Authorization: Basic bWFyaWFuOkdhbW1hMjE= > > HTTP/1.x 200 OK > Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2004 14:15:29 GMT > Server: Apache > X-Powered-By: PHP/4.1.2 > Content-Encoding: gzip > Vary: Accept-Encoding > Content-Length: 26 > Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=99 > Connection: Keep-Alive > Content-Type: text/html I tried setting wgDebugLogFile and checked the output. There is nothing in that file that looks like anything went wrong. I tried to install another instance of the Skript under a different name. That installation went just as fine as the first, but demonstrates the problem right away. No output. So I suspect there is a problem with my database. Again: I do not remember any change in setup. Using the commandline I can still connect to the database under the account and with the password specified in LocalSettings.php by using the mysql commandline-interface. I tried running index.php on the commandline. No error, no output at all. I then tried strace as an attempt to find out what the script was doing before it terminates. Here's the tail of the output of that run: > fcntl64(4, F_SETFL, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK) = 0 > read(4, 0x85a3a30, 8192) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) > fcntl64(4, F_SETFL, O_RDWR) = 0 > write(4, "I\0\0\0\3SELECT cur_text FROM cur WH"..., 77) = 77 > read(4, "\1\0\0\1", 4) = 4 > read(4, "\1", 1) = 1 > read(4, "\27\0\0\2", 4) = 4 > read(4, "\3cur\10cur_text\3\377\377\377\1\374\3\21\0\0", 23) = 23 > read(4, "\1\0\0\3", 4) = 4 > read(4, "\376", 1) = 1 > brk(0x89a6000) = 0x89a6000 > read(4, "\33\0\0\4", 4) = 4 > read(4, "\32/^([\344|\366|\374|\337|a-z]+)(.*)$/sD", 27) = 27 > read(4, "\1\0\0\5", 4) = 4 > read(4, "\376", 1) = 1 > time(NULL) = 1086431027 > gettimeofday({1086431027, 339641}, NULL) = 0 > close(7) = 0 > close(6) = 0 > close(5) = 0 > rt_sigaction(SIGPIPE, {SIG_IGN}, {SIG_IGN}, 8) = 0 > fcntl64(4, F_SETFL, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK) = 0 > read(4, 0x85a3a30, 8192) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) > fcntl64(4, F_SETFL, O_RDWR) = 0 > write(4, "\1\0\0\0\1", 5) = 5 > shutdown(4, 2 /* send and receive */) = 0 > close(4) = 0 > rt_sigaction(SIGPIPE, {SIG_IGN}, {SIG_IGN}, 8) = 0 > setitimer(ITIMER_PROF, {it_interval={0, 0}, it_value={0, 0}}, NULL) = 0 > setitimer(ITIMER_PROF, {it_interval={0, 0}, it_value={30, 0}}, NULL) = 0 > rt_sigaction(SIGPROF, {0x82195b4, [PROF], SA_RESTART|0x4000000}, {0x82195b4, [PROF], SA_RESTART|0x4000000}, 8) = 0 > rt_sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, [PROF], NULL, 8) = 0 > setitimer(ITIMER_PROF, {it_interval={0, 0}, it_value={0, 0}}, NULL) = 0 > munmap(0x409f8000, 358472) = 0 > _exit(0) = ? To my rather untrained eye this looks like it is in fact talking to the database and querying the table cur. Which it is supposed to do I would say. Any idea what is broken here? How can I find out? Ciao, MM -- Marian Aldenhövel, Rosenhain 23, 53123 Bonn. Fon +49 228 624013, Fax +49 228 624031. http://www.marian-aldenhoevel.de "Wie trennt man drei Schlampen von zwei Säufern? Cockpittüre zu!"

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blank page after install +patch
by Joshua Swink 09 Jun '04

09 Jun '04

If you install php and mysql for the sole reason of running Mediawiki, and are inexperienced :-) and forget to uncomment ;extension=mysql.so, you get a blank page in your browser after running the script in config/index.php. Here is a patch to make it painfully clear what is going wrong in this situation. It checks for mysql prior to asking you to fill out that form. -- Joshua Swink yathster(a)yahoo.com

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RE: [Mediawiki-l] Blank Page
by Mike Dickson 08 Jun '04

08 Jun '04

When I remove the @ sign, I get the following: Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mysql_connect() in /var/www/internal/wiki-new/includes/Database.php on line 95 Which I assume means that the mysql bits used by php aren't loading or whatever. An unfortunate choice of error text suppression. Thanks to Joshua for the tip on this. -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Marian Aldenhövel Sent: June 8, 2004 4:38 AM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Blank Page Hi, > This is typical of a PHP fatal error with display_errors set to false. > Turn on error reporting in the PHP configuration I'd rather not as there are several other PHP-Applications on the system and I know nothing about their requirements. I have instead added ini_set("error_reporting","E_ALL"); ini_set("display_errors",1); To MediaWikis index.php. I tried several locations down the file, past some of the configuration-includes to make sure it does not get unset again. No change in the result: Still a 200 http-code but no data. I then put in a million statements of the form echo __FILE__ . __LINE__ . ' '; tracing progress through the code the hard way. Passing through lots of interesting places I finally reached includes/DataBase.php. The place where the actual connection to the database is attempted in function open(). I added my echoes and some more dumping-code: echo __FILE__ . __LINE__ . ' '; var_dump($server); echo ' '; var_dump($user); echo ' '; var_dump($password); echo ' '; @$this->mConn = mysql_connect( $server, $user, $password ); echo __FILE__ . __LINE__ . ' '; The first echo and the var_dumps are executed. Servername (localhost) and user and password are looking OK. The last echo does not execute (or the output does not reach my client). I have also tried removing the '@' from the mysql_connect-Line. No change. I don't think I can follow the path of execution any further. I can connect to the database fine when using the commandline mysql-client with the servername, username and password that has been output by my var_dumps. I can select the correct database and list tables and data. What now? What could make the system just die without any indication of a problem? Ciao, MM -- Marian Aldenhövel, Rosenhain 23, 53123 Bonn. Fon +49 228 624013, Fax +49 228 624031. http://www.marian-aldenhoevel.de "Wie trennt man drei Schlampen von zwei Säufern? Cockpittüre zu!" _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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MediaWiki-l June 2004