Platonides,Sorry, I am just now seeing your response. I don't think it is a write access problem anymore. Since this is a wampserver stack I am using, I cross posted this at the wampserver forum: When setting up mediawiki, got this message:
"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 [dev.mysql.com] for help. Attempting to connect to database server as wikidb_user...failed due to authentication errors. Check passwords."
If you follow the link you learn all about old and new passwords in MySQL since 4.1. But when I look at what is in wampserver, they are all 5+ so i shouldn't be having this problem at all. Someone suggested searching for my.ini outside of the wamp folder, but that came up empty. So I don't think there is some stray old mysql out there causing me problems. I created the wiki db and user myself in phpmyadmin, and the installation script was able to connect, but then I got this same old libraries error message again. And no, mw is definitely not installed. Thanks for your time and insights.
--- On Mon, 3/28/11, Platonides Platonides@gmail.com wrote:
From: Platonides Platonides@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Install on Windows Problem To: mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Monday, March 28, 2011, 7:07 PM
Nat Colley wrote:
I am trying to install MediaWiki on a windows machine (wamp) as a testing server. As near as I can tell, all has gone right with the download and installation of the wamp – php info comes up, for example. But navigating to index.php gets me this:
"* If you are reading this in your web browser, your server is probably not configured correctly to run PHP applications! "
That points to php not working on your server. You need to fix it first.
Then the install.php comments say:
"To run the install script, you'll need to temporarily make the 'config' subdirectory writable by the web server. The simplest way to do this on a Unix/Linux system is to make it world-writable:
chmod a+w config
Hop into your browser and surf into the wiki directory."
Are you also seeing
Setup has completed, your wiki is configured Please delete the /config directory for extra security. Can't write config file, aborting To run the install script... Checking environment... Please include all of the lines below when reporting installation
problems.
PHP " . htmlspecialchars( phpversion() ) . " installed
etc. ?
(a mixture of all possible messages given by the installer)
Then it is a consequence of not having php enabled. Goto step 1.
Well, obviously I am not on unix or linux. Right clicking on the config folder and going to properties tells me that this file is read only, but if I uncheck the box it goes right back to being read only anyway. I seem to remember that in Windows you have to go up to the highest folder because all these properties are normally inherited downward. I did that all the way up to my drive itself, and it still doesn't stop them from being read only.
Your assistance, patience, and wisdom are greatly appreciated. Thank you.
If your issue is really with permissions writing the config folder, I would wait for 1.17rc1 (planned for this Friday) and install it. It uses a new installer that gives you LocalSettings.php for download instead of writing it itself.
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