MediaWiki-l May 2006

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Security issues with directories
by coldwaveindustry＠yahoo.com 12 May '06

12 May '06

I've just installed and configured MediaWiki for the first time and so far everything has been functioning smoothly. However, I've noticed that I'm able to browse to a specific file or directory within the public directory, for example I'm able to bring up my LocalSettings file or browse to the /bin area. Now, the average visitor will probably not have any knowledge of MediaWiki and where files and directories are placed, but someone who does know could very well navigate their way around. One solution could be to place index.html files in the other directories and to customize server permissions for individual files and directories, but this seems unnecessary and still doesn't solve the issue of security considering that other wikis such as Wikipedia, Wikinfo, etc. do not appear to do this and keep visitors strictly within the wiki environment. What do I need to do in order to configure the server and/or wiki to function like that? I've looked through much of the MediaWiki documentation and all I can find concerning the issues of security and permissions are those that relate to the wiki itself, and not the web server. There's no information about what to do with the files and directories in order to mask them from the public. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. --------------------------------- Blab-away for as little as 1¢/min. Make PC-to-Phone Calls using Yahoo! Messenger with Voice.

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Upgrading problems from 1.4.15 to 1.6.5
by erchache2000 12 May '06

12 May '06

Hi! I'm trying to upgrade from 1.4.15 to 1.6.5. I repair tables before and when apply upgrade show this error: Checking environment... /Please include all of the lines below when reporting installation problems./ * PHP 4.3.10-10ubuntu4.4 installed * PHP server API is apache2handler; ok, using pretty URLs (index.php/Page_Title) * Have XML / Latin1-UTF-8 conversion support. * PHP's memory_limit is 128M. *If this is too low, installation may fail!* * Have zlib support; enabling output compression. * Turck MMCache <http://turck-mmcache.sourceforge.net/> installed * Found GNU diff3: /usr/bin/diff3. * Found ImageMagick: /usr/bin/convert; image thumbnailing will be enabled if you enable uploads. * Found GD graphics library built-in. * Installation directory: /var/www/wikitest * Script URI path: * Environment checked. You can install MediaWiki. *Generating configuration file...* * Database type: mysql * *PHP is linked with old MySQL client libraries. If you are using a MySQL 4.1 server and have problems connecting to the database, see http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/old-client.html for help.* * Attempting to connect to database server as root...success. * Connected to 4.0.23_Debian-3ubuntu2.3-log * Database enciclotest exists * There are already MediaWiki tables in this database. Checking if updates are needed... * Granting user permissions... ...hitcounter table already exists. ...querycache table already exists. ...objectcache table already exists. ...categorylinks table already exists. ...logging table already exists. Creating validate table...ok ...user_newtalk table already exists. Creating transcache table...ok Creating trackbacks table...ok Creating externallinks table...ok Creating job table...ok ...have ipb_id field in ipblocks table. ...have ipb_expiry field in ipblocks table. ...have rc_type field in recentchanges table. ...have rc_ip field in recentchanges table. ...have rc_id field in recentchanges table. ...have rc_patrolled field in recentchanges table. ...have user_real_name field in user table. ...have user_token field in user table. Adding user_email_token field to table user...ok Adding user_registration field to table user...ok ...have log_params field in logging table. Adding ar_rev_id field to table archive...ok Adding ar_text_id field to table archive...ok ...page table does not exist, skipping new field patch ...revision table does not exist, skipping new field patch Adding img_width field to table image...ok Adding img_metadata field to table image...ok Adding img_media_type field to table image...ok ...have val_ip field in validate table. ...have ss_total_pages field in site_stats table. ...interwiki table does not exist, skipping new field patch Adding ipb_range_start field to table ipblocks...ok Adding ss_images field to table site_stats...ok Creating interwiki table: ok Adding default interwiki definitions: ok Updating indexes to 20031107: Query "ALTER TABLE `links` DROP INDEX l_from, ADD INDEX l_from (l_from) " failed with error code "Can't DROP 'l_from'. Check that column/key exists (localhost)".

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Updating mediawiki with hacked pages
by a＠kid 12 May '06

12 May '06

Is there any documentation on the best approach to updating a mediawiki installation where the site administrator has modified several of the core pages in the includes folder? I haven't gone through an update process yet so i don't know what to expect. My host provides one click updates for mediawiki. I am wondering what the easiest way is going to be to tell which files have been altered in an update. thanks

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How to change the footer
by Luis Mandel 12 May '06

12 May '06

Hi! I have two questions. . I would like to add a link at the footer. How to do it? . When adding an article at the Wikipedia one can see at the bottom that a nice Javascript capability have been added in order to "click-and-add" characters like á é í ó ú, ä, ö, etc. I believe that this must be somehow added at the MessageXX.php file. If true, how to do it? Thanks a lot in advance, Luis -- ----------------------------- Dr. Luis Mandel luismandel(a)gmail.com

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configuring search results
by a＠kid 12 May '06

12 May '06

How does Wikipedia get its search results to display the way they do? (ie: sort by relevance instead of size of document, don't display size of document in results) Are there any configuration settings that determine how the search results are displayed? ( i haven't found any) Does wikipedia use an extension to format their search results? thanks /m

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Help, my icons have disappeared!!!
by Andrew Lowe 12 May '06

12 May '06

Thanks for the feedback, but you can all relax now, it was all down to me stuffing up an edit. It's amazing what havoc and time wasting you can create with a misplaced " ;) Once again thanks for the responses, Andrew > -----Original Message----- > From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)Wikimedia.org > [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Lowe > Sent: Thursday, 11 May 2006 5:22 PM > To: mediawiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org > Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Help, my icons have disappeared!!! > > Hi all, > The icons that appear at the top of the edit box when > you edit a page have disappeared on me. I go to edit any page > and there is just a "naked" edit box containing the pages contents. > > It's nearly the end of the day so I can't track the > problem down right now but I've just modified my config to > get rid of the index.php from the URL as outlined in > > meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Eliminating_index.php_from_the_url > > Would this have caused the problem? > > Any thoughts on where I should start the debugging > tomorrow morning are greatly appreciated. > > Regards, > Andrew Lowe > > p.s. Latest mediawiki, Apache V2.0 etc etc > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org > http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l >

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Help, my icons have disappeared!!!
by a＠kid 11 May '06

11 May '06

You can also set in LocalSettings.php whether the edit page toolbar preference is shown by default for new users ... $wgDefaultUserOptions['showtoolbar'] = 1;

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Problems with installation
by Antoni Pisani 11 May '06

11 May '06

Hi, I am trying to install MediaWiki 1.6.5 on my linux server. All goes well upp until the creation of tables in the database (mysql). I tried letting the installation script create the database and also manually create the database - but the same result -stopping with this error message: "TYPE=InnoDB " failed with error code "Specified key was too long. Max key length is 500 (localhost)". Can anyone help? Antoni

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Diacritics problem
by iubito 11 May '06

11 May '06

Hi, my old host is so bad I decided to switch to another one, we higher memory limit :-) In earlier messages in this list, I talked about a diacritics problem when switching from mysql 4.1 to 4.0. Now my old host is mysql 5.0, and the new is 4.1. I exported to SQL and imported it. All seems OK in PhpMyAdmin. But in MediaWiki (using 1.6.3) as you can see at http://tousauxbalkans.jexiste.fr (new host), the diacritics (à é... greek and cyrillic letters) are OK but the title of pages are bad. [[:Catégorie:Macédoine]] points to http://tousauxbalkans.jexiste.fr/index.php?title=Cat%C3%A9gorie:Mac%C3%A9do… link is red, this page doesn't exists. On the old host, it pointed to a similar url : http://tousauxbalkans.free.fr/index.php?title=Cat%C3%A9gorie:Mac%C3%A9doine with a correct link and the page exists. How do you explain that ? Which table(s) I must look better to compare in what they are different ? Does the experimental new support of UTF8 should solve this ? (I kept the compatible UTF8) Thanks in advance Sylvain Machefert

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Problems with files upload
by Marc Sauget 11 May '06

11 May '06

Hi, I need to upload in my wiki's site files without types MIME. This files was generated by a little application and don't need this specifications. To upload file with media wiki, i have add in my LocalSettings.php: "$wgFileExtensions = array( 'png', 'gif', 'jpg', 'jpeg', 'txt', 'bin', 'rpm', 'pdf', 'java', 'doc', 'ppt', 'tar.gz', 'zip', 'rar','rend','rdn','3ddose' ,'ps');" $wgCheckFileExtensions = true; $wgStrictFileExtensions = true; $wgMimeDetectorCommand = 'file -bi'; But, when i wan't to upload my file, i obtains : "Ce fichier est corrompu, a une taille nulle ou possède une extension invalide. Veuillez vérifer le fichier." This files (with extension .rdn, .3ddose, .rend) are simple text documents. If i change the preceding extension by .txt, i have'nt problems ... How can i upload file without use the command "file" ? Thanks

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