On Nov 12, 2003, at 18:21, Agon S. Buchholz wrote:
... PHP4 4:4.1.2-6,...
The install.php script starts installing WikiMedia in /var/www/wiki, as instructed in AdminSettings.php; then it claims to create the database "wikidb" and asks for the database's root password. After typing it in, the script seems to hang in a loop, saying: "Warning: Wrong parameter count for fgets() in /root/MediaWiki-Install/install.php on line 197".
It's failing to set up the database because it's unable to read in the SQL commands because fgets() fails.
Workaround for the fgets problem on <4.2: http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2003-October/006651.html
Various other things may be broken on such an old PHP, I'd highly recommend installing a current version. I'm rather surprised that debian-testing's version is so old (february '02)... unstable has 4.3.3.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)