Hi all,
I am having some trouble with our wiki at http://ascendwiki.cheme.cmu.edu after a recent problem where a hard drive problem caused us to lose the images in our wiki. We managed to retrieve the database and I have reinstalled Mediawiki now (version 1.9.3) and some images I have put back into place in the wiki images folder (/var/www/wiki/images/X/XX/whatever.png), but it is becoming clear that all is not as it should be.
The first problem is that some of the images that I have replaced (from files from other sources pre-wiki) in the above folders do appear in the wiki, but do not appear to be thumbnailing correctly -- the image show with rough-looking resizing, not the usual nice smooth job that I take it is done by imagemagick.
The second problem is that I can't make uploading work any more. I have set everything up in LocalSettings.php and the folder permissions look right. I have set the $wgHashedUploadDirectory also. The funny thing is that when I use the upload page, the image appears to upload (the HTTP request takes a few moments) but then it fails silently: I am returned to the upload page again, with no error message, and no message shows up in the Apache error log either.
I tried to run management/rebuildImages using php5 CLI but it fails with a message about failing to connect to the database with user = root and no password. I couldn't see where to set the password (I tried modifying php.ini but that wasn't it). So I can't see how to run this script, either.
Any suggestions for all this would be much appreciated. I'm sure it must be something fairly simple I've failed to do.
Cheers JP
PS I notice that some upload issues have been addressed in the new 1.10 release. Could that be related?