Hi,
I tried to move a wiki from an XP to an Linux platform.
To get used to the concept I started with an intermediate step, namely
moving the wiki from one XP platform to another (see table below).
Platform
#
PHP version
Mediawiki version
MySQL version
Operating system
A
5.2
1.91
5.0.11
Windos XP professional
B
5.2
1.93
5.0.11
Windos XP professional
C
5.2
1.93
5.?
Suse Linux 10.2
That is what I did converting from on XP to another (#A to #B).
1.. dump database of initial wiki
2.. dump mediawiki files 1.91 on old XP system
3.. import old database into mysql on new XP
4.. configure mediawiki 1.93 on new system using imported database
5.. move LocalSettings.php from config directory to Base directory of 1.93
version
6.. successfully test 1.93 version (of course without certain
functionality of former 1.91 version)
7.. copy all 1.91 files into base directory of 1.93 version. Finished. It
works
When converting from XP 1.91 version to Linux Version (#A to #C) I did
exactly the same following steps 1-6.
Unfortunately step 7. did not work.
The result was that there was no result at all, just a blank page ;-(
When I compared the 1.93 LocalSettings.php with the 1.91 version there was a
difference between these three lines
$wgScriptPath = "";
$wgScript = "$wgScriptPath/index.php";
$wgRedirectScript = "$wgScriptPath/redirect.php";
When I deleted these lines the 1.93 Linux wiki started with the 1.91
LocalSettings.php file but lacked some functionality, e. g. no personalized
logo, no access to pages that use templates, some bad formatting.
Does anyone know where the problem might be?
Kind regards
A. Cremer
P. S.
I hope I did not confuse anybody with to much 1.91s and 1.93s
Hello all,
Regarding my previous email...
If there is a way to get MediaWiki to ignore a certain directory "under" it
then I don't even need to set up this redirect. For example, I want
MediaWiki to stay at www.mywiki.com but want to be able to use to directory
www.mywiki.com/classroom for a CMS.
Is it possible to do this without moving the MediaWiki install to
www.mywiki.com/wiki and setting up a complex redirect?
Thanks!
Hello all,
I need to import data from another app into mediawiki to make them into
mediawiki articles/pages. It's my understanding that this can be done by
importing xml? If so, what is the format the xml needs to be in? Can
anyone provide a walkthrough so I can create XML and import into
mediawiki?
Or is there a better way than importing via xml? Maybe manually via SQL
(but I don't know which tables/columns to populate to create a page)?
Thanks,
-Dan
Now I figured out that probably due to the colon character, like User:XXX, in the request. I am running my wiki on a windows machine. Windows doesn't allow colon for naming files. This may explain the error message. Now I wonder if there exists any patch either for apache or for wiki to handle this issue.
Thanks,
-- Ming
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Subject: [Mediawiki-l] A strange error message
Hi,
I finally managed to install mediawiki on my computer. It seems running well. When I looked at the apache's error log, I found a lot of this kind of messages
[Tue Apr 24 14:58:37 2007] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (20024)The given path misformatted or contained invalid characters: Cannot map GET /wiki/index.php/User:XXX HTTP/1.1 to file, referer: http://localhost/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
It looks like apache always tried to find page User:XXX but it is in fact an argument of index.php. My wiki seems to run well, though.
Should I change something in httpd.conf or php.ini to fix it?
Thanks,
-- Ming
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I have two problems with functionality of "in other languages" box on my MW
server. I would like to point from my articles to related articles on
Wikipedia using standard interwikis. In this context I would like to:
1) Change the text from "in other languages" to something like "in other
wikis"
2) My MW is localized as Czech (CS) and so when I add [[cs:something]]
interwiki to an article, it is hiding it from in other languages box. I would
like to switch off this language filtering.
Does anybody know how to solve point 1) or 2)?
(MW 1.7.1)
Thanks in advance
Jakub
Hello all -
as part of our discussions around the feature set of MediaWiki for
educators which took place from April 11-13 in Vancouver, we realized
that several groups & companies that are currently using MediaWiki
(including some who were present) have identical needs. Sometimes,
work is done in parallel and redundantly.
For example, Wikia has done work around WYSIWYG editing. WikiEducator
has a strong need for it, and the folks at CK-12 are also
investigating the possibilities. Should we launch a development effort
together, it needs to be coordinated.
The wikitech-l and mediawiki-l lists are very busy with day-to-day
work, so we felt it makes sense to have a focused place for
coordination of "next generation" MediaWiki development projects,
small and large, that (may) involve multiple partners. Hence, there is
now a MediaWiki NG (next generation) mailing list. We can also use it
to think about funding strategies, though the list archives are at
this point public.
It is emphatically not a "blue sky" list for wild ideas; those belong
on wikitech-l and Meta. It's about: We want feature set X - we are
willing to contribute an amount/join a funding proposal/add a
developer to a team working on it. It's about figuring out specs,
timetables & roadmaps.
The list is at:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-ng-l
Right now it's set to moderator approval for new subscription. If you
want on, drop Brion a line about your organization & needs and how you
could contribute to dev activities, and he'll add you to the list. If
you're a dev who just wants to follow what's going on, provide advice
& participate, you're also welcome of course. But I suggested making
it initially mod-approved to ensure that people read a long email like
this one that explains the purpose of the list, and that it remains
focused on getting things done. ;-) It would be easy to confuse this
with a "brainstorming list", which it is not.
--
Peace & Love,
Erik
DISCLAIMER: This message does not represent an official position of
the Wikimedia Foundation or its Board of Trustees.
"An old, rigid civilization is reluctantly dying. Something new, open,
free and exciting is waking up." -- Ming the Mechanic
Hi,
I have a problem with interwiki translusion ( MW 1.9.3 <-- MW 1.9.3 ).
For some reason a paragraph tag is inserted before each transclusion.
When I examine the transclusion result with the (forefox) browser, the
part which is messed looks like so ( p - br - /p ):
<p><br>
</p>
<p>Some text from the source.
</p>
Annoying. tc typically inserts a paragraph, plus a <br>, which makes
iw-transclusion more or less unusable.
Regards,
// Rolf Lampa
Is there some way to insert a rel="license" into external links? There
is a license microformat (http://microformats.org/wiki/rel-license )
that is super easy to implement if this was available. I think this
ability would also help a lot in meeting the machine readability
requirements set out in the exemption doctrine policy. Although we may
need to come up with our own authoritative fair use urls.
I opened an enhancement request for this if anyone wants to comment
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9666
Thoughts?
Judson
[[:en:User:Cohesion]]
I'm moving a wiki from one of my systems to 1and1.com. A number of
people have successfully installed Mediawiki there, so it's possible.
1) I uploaded and untarred Mediawiki 1.9.3.
2) I created .htaccess in the top-level wiki directory containing the line:
AddType x-mapp-php5 .php
(added because 1and1 uses PHP4 by default)
4) Clicking on http://mydomain.com/mywiki/config
* PHP 5.2.1 installed
* Found database drivers for: MySQL
* PHP server API is cgi; using ugly URLs (index.php?title=Page_Title)
* Have XML / Latin1-UTF-8 conversion support.
* PHP's memory_limit is 40M. If this is too low, installation may fail!
* Have zlib support; enabling output compression.
* Couldn't find Turck MMCache, eAccelerator or APC. Object caching functions cannot be used.
* GNU diff3 not found.
* Found GD graphics library built-in, image thumbnailing will be enabled if you enable uploads.
* Installation directory: /homepages/123/d123456/htdocs/fbwiki
* Script URI path: /fbwiki
* Environment checked. You can install MediaWiki.
Filling in the fields and clicking on 'Install Mediawiki!' results in:
Generating configuration file...
# Database type: MySQL
# Loading class: DatabaseMysql
# Attempting to connect to database server as dbo123456...success.
# Connected to 4.0.27-standard-log
# Database db123456 exists
# There are already MediaWiki tables in this database. Checking if updates are needed...
[...]
Deleting old default messages...A database query syntax error has occurred.
The last attempted database query was:
"(SQL query hidden)"
from within function "RecentChange::save".
MySQL returned error "1048: Column 'rc_id' cannot be null (db123.perfora.net)"
The MySQL database was exported from a machine running MySQL 5.0.18
using the command:
mysqldump -u root -pxxxx --compatible=mysql40 wikidb > dumpfile.sql
The '--compatible=mysql40' argument is necessary because 1and1 uses
MySQL 4.x
Any hints on fixing this error would be appreciated. 1and1 has
phpMyAdmin installed, and I can also interact with the database via
MySQL commands from the shell command line.
Thanks,
-rex
--
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