You did receive an error during installation, only you didn't act upon it. It's a common one, too. Re-read the output from MediaWiki.
You need to set the password for the user you set up for MW's use using the old mySQL authentication hashing.
Rob Church
On 17/11/05, Steve Allan takezowest@yahoo.com wrote:
Hello,
I installed MediaWiki 1.5.2 with no apparent error, but when I try to connect by following the link from the installation page, I get this:
ERROR The requested URL could not be retrieved
While trying to retrieve the URL:
http://build.chq.ei/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page
The following error was encountered:
Connection Failed The system returned:
(146) Connection refusedThe remote host or network may be down. Please try the request again.
Generated Thu, 17 Nov 2005 18:07:23 GMT by proxycache (Squid/2.4.STABLE6)
Here is the ouput from the mediawiki installation
MediaWiki 1.5.2 installation Please include all of the lines below when reporting installation problems.
Checking environment... PHP 4.4.1: ok PHP server API is apache; ok, using pretty URLs (index.php/Page_Title) Have XML / Latin1-UTF-8 conversion support. PHP is configured with no memory_limit. 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: /opt/mediawiki-1.5.2 Script URI path: /mediawiki 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. Trying to connect to MySQL on localhost as root... Connected as root (automatic) Connected to 3.23.53 Created database wikidb Creating tables... using MySQL 3/4 table defs... done. Initializing data... Granting user permissions... Created sysop account WikiSysop. Initialising "MediaWiki" namespace... Clearing message cache...Done. Creating LocalSettings.php...
Installation successful! Move the config/LocalSettings.php file into the parent directory, then follow this link to your wiki.
I moved LocalSettings.php up one level to the root of the mediawiki installation and deleted the config directory. I've tried typing in different urls, with no luck. One suggestion I found when googling was to use this url:
http://build.chq.ei/mediawiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
but that didn't work either. Can anyone suggest how to fix this?
Thanks.
-- -- Steve
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