John,
Thank you. I was able to get the rewrite rules to work. I now have the wiki on a new host.
Daryl
On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 11:28 AM, John phoenixoverride@gmail.com wrote:
Then it would appear that your rewrite rules are messed up:
<wm-bot>To create simple URLs (such as the /wiki/PAGENAME style URLs on Wikimedia sites), follow the instructions at http://www.mediawiki. org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL or try the new beta tool at http://shorturls. redwerks.org/. There are instructions for most different webserver setups. If you have problems getting the rewrite rules to work, see !rewriteproblem
On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 11:54 AM, Daryl Rose rosede12@gmail.com wrote:
John,
As I posted previously, I am not an Apache admin. I know very little
about
it, and I know nothing of rewrite rules.
I had previously tried going directly to the index.php, and I get redirected to the "<FQDN>/mediawiki/Main_Page".
Thanks
Daryl
On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 10:45 AM, John phoenixoverride@gmail.com
wrote:
As I said leaving mediawiki in the root (pointing DocumentRoot to the mediawiki directory) is not recommended. When I set up a wiki I tend to
put
the code in /wiki and use rewrite rules to make /w the clean URLs. I
would
also check your rewrite rules too. Try going directly to your index.php page
On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 11:23 AM Daryl Rose rosede12@gmail.com
wrote:
John,
I moved the entire wiki to a sub-directory called "mediawiki".
Pointed
the
DocumentRoot to the path "/var/www/html/mediawiki", stop/started
Apache.
I'm still getting the same error:
*The requested URL /mediawiki/Main_Page was not found on this
server.*
Is there another setting that I'm missing?
Thanks
Daryl
On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 9:49 AM, John phoenixoverride@gmail.com
wrote:
I would use a folder and not place mediawiki in the root of web
server
On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 10:28 AM Daryl Rose rosede12@gmail.com
wrote:
Brian,
Thank you for the reply.
Yes, I know that v1.25 is out of date and needs to be upgraded.
I'll
tackle that once I get it migrated over to a new environment.
The original environment *WAS *an XAMPP and was installed as a
Bitnami
package. Because of security vulnerabilities, the entire
environment
needs
to be upgraded. But because I used XAMPP, I can't upgrade
Apache,
or
MySQL
or PHP. I would have to wipe out the entire install and do a
fresh
install. That is not acceptable, so I decided to do what I
should
have
done the first time, install Apache, MySQL, PHP and Mediawiki as
individual
components.
Even though I was successful at accessing the database from the
command
line, and verifying the contents, I decided to change the
password
and
tried the wiki site again. This time I received an error saying
that
it
could not find the front page. This is actually a step forward.
This
is
telling me that it connected to the database.
So now I'm facing path issues. The intitial install was "/opt/lampp/apps/mediawiki/htdocs". The new path is
"/var/www/html".
After changing the database password, I got the following URL:
"<FQDN>/mediawiki/Main_Page". I looked in LocalSettings.php and
saw
that
"$wgArticlePath" was set to "/mediawiki/$1". I removed
"mediawiki"
from
the path, stop/started Apache, but now I get "<FQDN>/Main_Page"
in
the
url
bar, and "The requested URL /Main_Page was not found on this
server".
Looking a little deeper, I see "$wgScriptPath" set to
"/mediawiki".
I
know
that isn't correct, so I changed it ".". I didn't know if that
would
work
or not. Apparently not.
There is still a path issue somewhere, but I'm not sure where. I
know
that
in the database I saw ""/opt/lampp/apps/mediawiki", but I don't
want
to
start changing paths in the database until I know that I can at
least
bring
up the main page. If there is a path in the database that I need
to
change, please let me know where to look.
Thank you.
Daryl
On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 1:00 AM, Brian Wolff bawolff@gmail.com
wrote:
> First of all, Mediawiki 1.25 is out of date and has publically
known
> security vulnerabilities. You should upgrade. > > For the error, I would start by checking $wgDBServer. If your
db
is
on
the > same host as mediawiki and commandline is working, it could be
something
> like using network vs local socket. If 'localhost' is not
working
try
> '127.0.0.1' instead (or vice versa) > > Beyond that, I would look into if there is anything preventing
mediawiki
> from talking to the db (e.g. firewall, selinux, etc) > > -- > bawolff > > On Friday, November 17, 2017, Daryl Rose rosede12@gmail.com
wrote:
> > Hello, > > > > I just moved an existing environment from a SLES 11 SP4
xampp/Bitnami
> > installation to a CentOS 7.4, Apache, MySQL, PHP environment.
There
were > > security issues with the original installation, so I had to
move
to
> > something that I could upgrade components when as
vulnerabilities
are
> > discovered. > > > > According to the documentation, I should be able to
export/import
the
> > database and then copy over the MediaWiki directory, and all
should
me
> > good. Well, there are a couple of minor gotcha's in the
doc's,
but
for
> the > > most part, it's pretty straight forward. > > > > I had a few minor issues with the php, but once I got that
figured
out, I > > now get a page that tells me that the site is experiencing
technical
> > difficulties (Cannot access the database). > > > > I've verified that the database name, user name and password
are
correct. > > From the command line, I can access the database using the
database
user > > and I can see the tables. > > > > I'm not a DBA or a developer, so I'm not sure where to start > > troubleshooting. Other than verifying that the credentials
are
correct. > > > > The original installation was PHP v5.6.12 and the new
installation
is
PHP > > v5.6.32. Other than that, I believe everything else is the
same.
> > MediaWiki is V1.25. > > > > Any suggestions on where to start looking? > > > > Thanks > > > > Daryl > > _______________________________________________ > > MediaWiki-l mailing list > > To unsubscribe, go to: > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > To unsubscribe, go to: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
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