Hi fellow Mediwikians,
I've got a sticky page. I can't nail it. It was long, and had
sub pages, and seemed to work (display) without problem for months. I
just updated it with a long replacement page. Then I got this from
Internet Explorer:
The page cannot be displayed
The page you are looking for is currently unavailable. The Web site
might be experiencing technical difficulties, or you may need to adjust
your browser settings.
From Mozilla FireFox:
Network Error (tcp_error)
A communication error occurred: ""
The Web Server may be down, too busy, or experiencing other problems
preventing it from responding to requests. You may wish to try again at
a later time.
All other pages in the wiki are fine, even longer ones, even one
with more sub pages.
To resolve it, I though I'd just build the page on another wiki,
then export it, and then import it to my own wiki ... and it worked!
Once. But that was just the top, the most recent revision. So,
engorges with my recent success, I then thought I'd try building the old
AND new version on another wiki, and export the whole revision history
shebang form the other wiki, and then import the whole revision history
shebang into my own wiki so my users could compare history, and now the
symptom is back - no access, same time out error message from Internet
Explorer.
I've rebuilt and optimized all tables in PHPMyAdmin and no
change. (Some tables prefer optimize, some prefer rebuild?)
wikidb.wiki_archive optimize status OK
wikidb.wiki_categorylinks optimize status OK
wikidb.wiki_externallinks optimize status OK
wikidb.wiki_filearchive optimize status OK
wikidb.wiki_hitcounter optimize note The storage engine for the table
doesn't support optimize
wikidb.wiki_image optimize status OK
wikidb.wiki_imagelinks optimize status OK
wikidb.wiki_interwiki optimize status OK
wikidb.wiki_ipblocks optimize status OK
wikidb.wiki_job optimize status OK
wikidb.wiki_langlinks optimize status OK
wikidb.wiki_logging optimize status OK
wikidb.wiki_math optimize status OK
wikidb.wiki_objectcache optimize status OK
wikidb.wiki_oldimage optimize status OK
wikidb.wiki_page optimize status OK
wikidb.wiki_pagelinks optimize status OK
wikidb.wiki_page_restrictions optimize status OK
wikidb.wiki_querycache optimize status OK
wikidb.wiki_querycachetwo optimize status OK
wikidb.wiki_querycache_info optimize status OK
wikidb.wiki_recentchanges optimize status OK
wikidb.wiki_redirect optimize status OK
wikidb.wiki_revision optimize status OK
wikidb.wiki_searchindex optimize status Table is already up to date
wikidb.wiki_site_stats optimize status OK
wikidb.wiki_templatelinks optimize status OK
wikidb.wiki_text optimize status OK
wikidb.wiki_trackbacks optimize status OK
wikidb.wiki_transcache optimize status OK
wikidb.wiki_user optimize status OK
wikidb.wiki_user_groups optimize status OK
wikidb.wiki_user_newtalk optimize status OK
wikidb.wiki_watchlist optimize status OK
I have a work around by creating a duplicate "look alike" page
via capitalizing an additional word in the title ("and" becomes
"And"),
and that separate page works fine with all the same content duplicated
in it's history! But ...
Has anyone else had a sticky page problem like this? Is it a
threshold problem and the page itself is irrelevant (such as file
placement in the underlying OS, and it will "pass" if I defrag my drive
and move the file, physically, away form some 32 gb transom?)? Any
clues? Any resolutions? Anyone see this and fix it before? (By the
way, nothing on this on
http://www.mediawiki.org/ yet.)
Thanks.
- Peter Blaise