MediaWiki-l June 2006

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Subdomain Redirects to Top Level
by Crossing Lost 05 Jun '06

05 Jun '06

I am trying to install Mediawiki to a subdomain. I am using the most recent version 1.6. . . When I attempt to access mediawiki from my subdomain http://crossinglost.alt-realities.net/wiki, it reports a 404 Error because it redirects back to my top level domain http://www.alt-realities.net/wikiwhere there is no such directory or file. I have changed the $IP to '/var/www/crossinglost/wiki' which is the path as given by my webhost. Is there another configuration change that needs to be specified? -- ___________________________________ Michele - Gaminatrix & Moderator

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Upload dir "not writable" under XAMPP setup - How to make writable??
by David Reimer 05 Jun '06

05 Jun '06

I had asked back on Wed May 31 13:25:55 UTC 2006 about this problem: [quote] I am running mediawiki as a localhost setup for development/learning. The environment is XAMPP (so, Apache, MySQL, PhP, etc.) in WinXP. Everything is going well ... except for "uploads". I have read this, and everything else I can find on enabling uploads. For some reason I keep getting this error message: "The upload directory ($/images) is not writable by the webserver." [/quote] Sy Ali replied suggesting I hard-code the path, which didn't work but got me thinking. I posted the solution on the mwuser's forum, but thought I should note it here, too. In LocalSettings.php, you remove the "$/" from the $wgUploadDirectory setting, so it reads: $wgUploadDirectory = "images"; and then the uploads work fine in WinXP+WAMPP setup ... at least for me! :) David.

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Missing Images!
by Gordon Joly 04 Jun '06

04 Jun '06

I cannot see any image in Firefox 1.5.0.4 on a Mac 10.4.6 on Commons or English WIkipedia.... On Commons wiki.png (the main logo) is also missing! Any ideas??? Gordo -- "Think Feynman"///////// http://pobox.com/~gordo/ gordon.joly(a)pobox.com///

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Changing "messages" values
by Martin C. Martin 04 Jun '06

04 Jun '06

Hi all, I'm hoping to use MediaWiki to run my personal web site. MediaWiki, out of the box, contains a lot of links to non-existent pages, e.g. at the bottom of every page are "about" and "disclaimers" links. What's a clean way of getting rid of these? I tried changing the "about" related lines in languages/Messages.php to empty strings, i.e.: 'about' => '', 'aboutsite' => '', 'aboutpage' => '', but no luck. I also tried putting the following in LocalSettings.php: $wgAllMessagesEn['about']=''; $wgAllMessagesEn['aboutsite']=''; $wgAllMessagesEn['aboutpage']=''; $wgAllMessages['about']=''; $wgAllMessages['aboutsite']=''; $wgAllMessages['aboutpage']=''; But every page still has a working "About MyWiki" link at the bottom. How can I delete it? Where is it getting those values from? Is there something I can put in my LocalSettings.php that will eliminate those links? Thanks, Martin

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How to find "Wanted Images"
by Ken McDonald 04 Jun '06

04 Jun '06

I just realize that "Wanted Pages" doesn't show info on needed images, and none of the other special pages has any obvious relation to such a function. Is there a way to do this easily? Thanks, Ken

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error says MySQL version is 3.23.58 (it's actually 4.0.20) and old client libraries
by mediawiki＠camara.us 03 Jun '06

03 Jun '06

I've tried installing MediaWiki 1.6.5 (and 1.6.6) using the web installer (config/index.php). I get an error saying that the MySQL version is 3.23.58. The support people at my hosting provider insist they're running 4.0.20 (and according to http://hppchristianhosting.com/phpinfo.php, that seems to be true). I noticed the line about the old MySQL client libraries, but the support guys just keep telling me the MySQL version is 4.0.20 and PHP version is 4.3.7. I looked at the link, but don't know enough about MySQL, PHP, or MediaWiki to go about fixing it. I don't have root access (shared host), but if there's some upgrade to the MySQL interface that the hosting provider can do, they might be willing (but probably won't want to upgrade their MySQL or PHP versions). If there's some change I can make to the MediaWiki code to change the authorization type, that would be good, too. thanks, Lionel The installation results: PHP 4.3.7 installed Warning: PHP's register_globals option is enabled. Disable it if you can. MediaWiki will work, but your server is more exposed to PHP-based security vulnerabilities. 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 100M. If this is too low, installation may fail! Have zlib support; enabling output compression. Neither Turck MMCache nor eAccelerator are installed, can't use object caching functions GNU diff3 not found. Found GD graphics library built-in, image thumbnailing will be enabled if you enable uploads. Installation directory: /home/httpd/vhosts/camara.us/httpdocs/MediaWiki Script URI path: /MediaWiki Environment checked. You can install MediaWiki. Warning: $wgSecretKey key is insecure, generated with mt_rand(). Consider changing it manually. 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 **USERDELETED**...success. Connected to 3.23.58 -- mysql 4.0.14 or later required. Aborting.

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MediaWiki installed, but I don't seem to have an administrator account
by Nomad of Norad (David C Hall) 03 Jun '06

03 Jun '06

Well, I finally got my MediaWiki up and running, and I have set it to not allow anonymous edits. However, I don't seem to have a user with Administrator rights. The system had prompted me to create the Admin user WikiSysop, with appropriate password, when I went to the original config page, but no such user exists on the resulting wiki. I have now created a regular account for myself, and as I have said, have now changed the LocalSettings.php to deny anonymous edits. How do I give myself admin capabilities on the site, now? Is it something I must insert into the LocalSettings.php? Once that is taken care of, one of the other things I want to do is set it up so people can sign up (create an account for themselves) but cannot edit pages or create new ones until I enable them to. That is, I want to set things up so I have to select which users can edit, rather than them being able to edit just by having created an account. But first things first, I guess... -- Nomad of Norad (David C. Hall) --- *TeamAmiga* nomad(a)joshua-wopr.com --- http://www.joshua-wopr.com/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - For a dementedly wacky sci-fi continue-the-story project, join my WebBBS. http://www.joshua-wopr.com/phpBB/index.php ---------------------------------------------------------- This is the Emergency Backup .Signature File, it kicks in if the Regular Backup .Signature File fails to load.

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Disabling purge of recent changes
by a＠kid 03 Jun '06

03 Jun '06

I am using portions of the DynamicArticleList extension code on my wiki (1.6.6). In the documentation for the extension ( http:// meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Article_List )the author suggests disabling the deletion of old entries from the recent changes table by modifying Article.php . Could this have any negative side effects apart from any performance issues related to keeping a larger recent changes table? thanks

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Apache virtual hosts
by Michael Roach 03 Jun '06

03 Jun '06

Thanks Arthur! What I ended up doing was creating two more shell VirualHosts that match on the short name and redirect to the full name like you suggested. Doing it this way I don't lose the flexability of the default host which I am using for other purposes. P.S. What a great list!! The patience and helpful comments I've seen on this list since picking it up a month ago have been a really refreshing change from the usual "RTFM butthead..." replies you see so much nowadays. From: "Arthur Guy" <Arthur(a)assys.net> --- One way you can do this is setup another virtual host at the top of the list of virtual hosts which responds to the default address http://mysite only and includes a permanent redirect to the full address. Redirect / http://mysite.example.org/

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Apache virtual hosts
by Michael Roach 03 Jun '06

03 Jun '06

Thanks! I need to spend more time with the apache docs :/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Arthur Guy" [Arthur(a)assys.net] Sent: 06/02/2006 04:57 PM To: "MediaWiki announcements and site admin list" <mediawiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org> Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Apache virtual hosts One way you can do this is setup another virtual host at the top of the list of virtual hosts which responds to the default address http://mysite only and includes a permanent redirect to the full address. Redirect / http://mysite.example.org/ Arthur arthur(a)assys.net -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Michael Roach Sent: 02 June 2006 22:28 To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Apache virtual hosts I have a box running mediawiki and am now using virtual hosts on it to enable me to have a test version of the site running on port 8080. What is the "proper" way to force visitors to use the full server dns name? So, if I browse to 'http://mysite' the production wiki pops up and 'http://mysite:8080' the test wiki is shown. works great. love it. Now what I want to happen is that when a visitor goes to 'http://mysite' they get redirected to 'http://mysite.example.org' and going to 'http://mysite:8080' takes them to 'http://mysite.example.org:8080'. Basically, I want them to always be using the full canonical host name. I'm not sure how to setup a redirect like this in Apache2. Any tips would be appreciated. Thanks, Michael _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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