I'm interested using MediaWiki as our intranet wiki. Rather than making
everyone create a new account, I am hoping to find an easy way to hook
the login into our existing LDAP database. One low-tech way to do this
is to shell out of PHP and somehow ask UNIX. Has anyone looked into
this before?
I have created a MediaWiki site and it really looks good, but
the search button doesn't seem to work: it only works for a very
small set of words, and that quite erratically.
Do I need to set up something, for example, run an index building
script everyday? Or is it that I don't have to do anything normally
but something must have been messed up, for example, by me editing
the sidebar template?
I'm using MediaWiki 1.3.0, PHP 4.3.8, MySQL 3.23.58.
Thanks.
-June
Dear All,
I've just been trying to install MediaWiki on a Windows XP (SP2) box for
development purposes. Eventually the wiki will be hosted on a Linux
box. My basic configuration is Apache 2.0.50, PHP 4.3.8, and MySQL 4.1
beta (needed for another project). After supplying all the
configuration parameters I get the following output:
MediaWiki 1.3.2 installation
Please include all of the lines below when reporting installation problems.
Checking environment...
* PHP 4.3.8: ok
* PHP server API is apache2handler; ok, using pretty URLs
(index.php/Page_Title)
* Have XML / Latin1-UTF-8 conversion support.
* PHP is configured with no memory_limit.
* Have zlib support; enabling output compression.
* Found GD graphics library built-in, image thumbnailing will be
enabled if you enable uploads.
* Installation directory: C:\\Apache\\Apache2\\htdocs\\cvc
* Script URI path: /cvc
* Warning: $wgProxyKey is insecure Connected as root (automatic)
* Connected to database... 4.1.3-beta-nt; enabling MySQL 4
enhancementsWarning: $wgProxyKey is insecure
* Database wikidb exists
* Creating tables... done.
* Initializing data...
* Granting user permissions...
Sorry! The wiki is experiencing some technical difficulties, and
cannot contact the database server.
I have tried this using the automated AND manual DB / user creation. I
have created the mysql user as follows:
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'wikiuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED
BY 'password' WITH GRANT OPTION;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'wikiuser'@'holly' IDENTIFIED BY
'password' WITH GRANT OPTION;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
...so I would have thought the user should have all the database
privileges it needs. Does anybody have any idea why I can't get the
installation to work properly? I've searched the web but to no avail:
lots of people reporting this error message in slightly different
circumstances, but mostly nobody has been able to provide any assistance.
I'd be really grateful if anybody does know why this is happening
because I simply can't make any progress with my project until it is fixed.
Many thanks,
Bart Read
Yes, you right, it worked with root user. Thanks
But now when I search for "Einstein" it gives me empty page.
What could this be?
Leonid Yabloko
Next Generation Software
www.ontospace.net
Message: 1
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 23:09:34 -0700
From: Brion Vibber <brion(a)pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] WIki title not displaying
properly
To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
<mediawiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org>
Message-ID: <4134161E.3040303(a)pobox.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Jimmy Apple wrote>
> When I use MW 1.3.0, and my DB data was loaded with
> the wikipedia data as a demo, My site Title is set
to
> :
> $wgSitename = "Mysite Encyclopedia";
>
> However, when my page loads, I consistently get
> "Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia" instead of my own
> site's info.
>
> Any ideas why?
You loaded in Wikipedia's interface messages in the
database.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
Thanks Brion,
Do you know how I can change that? Where are the
interface messages that I have to edit?
Thanks
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First let me apologize, I'm somewhat new at managing a Wiki. I'm trying
to modify the Navigation area of the Wiki. Is there any documentation
for this? Perhaps if I understood how it was built I'd have a better
idea.
Any Hints would be awesome.
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I have php/mysql hosting and they do not let me give everyone write
access to a directory. MediaWiki can't write LocalSettings.php to
it's configuration directory, so I can't set it up. I know phpBB
detects to see if you have write access, and if not it lets you
download config.php for you to ftp. Are there any modifications or
things in the cvs that will do that, or are there any ways around
this?
Hi all,
I'm running Mediawiki 1.3.2 on my machine, and wanted to know if there's
any easy way to get file:// type URLs to be supported. I'll probably
start hacking on the source for Parser.php, just wasn't sure if there
was something else I'm missing, first.
thanks,
-Nick
Hello,
I was very happy with my installation of Mediawiki until the webmaster
changed something on the webserver. Originally, the success-page after the
installation showed this line:
[...]
* PHP server API is apache; ok, using pretty URLs (index.php/Page_Title)
[...]
Everything was fine, I had really pretty URLs.
Then the webmaster did his changes (I don't know which changes he did) and
the pretty URLs were gone.
After a reinstall, the success-page looks like this:
MediaWiki 1.3.2 installation
Please include all of the lines below when reporting installation problems.
Checking environment...
* PHP 4.3.2: 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 apache2filter; using ugly URLs
(index.php?title=Page_Title)
* Have XML / Latin1-UTF-8 conversion support.
* PHP's memory_limit is 8M. 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: /home/prodman/www2/wuki
* Script URI path: /prodman/wuki
* Warning: $wgProxyKey is insecure MySQL error 1045: Access denied for
user: 'root@localhost' (Using password: NO)
* Trying regular user... ok.
* Connected to database... 3.23.58
* Database prodman2 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...
Schema already converted
...have user_real_name field in user table.
...have special page querycache table.
...have objectcache table.
...have categorylinks table.
Template namespace already initialised
Initialising "MediaWiki" namespace...
Clearing message cache...Done.
* Finished update checks.
Creating LocalSettings.php...
Success! Move the LocalSettings.php file into the parent directory,
then follow this link to your wiki.
What is necessary, to get the pretty URLs back?
Any hint would be appreciated!
Nikolai
Hello,
When I use MW 1.3.0, and my DB data was loaded with
the wikipedia data as a demo, My site Title is set to
:
$wgSitename = "Mysite Encyclopedia";
However, when my page loads, I consistently get
"Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia" instead of my own
site's info.
Any ideas why?
Thanks
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