Many thanks, this wasn't clear because there was no 'uploads' directory in the main MW directory. Presumably it doesn't get created unless necessary :-) I created the appropriate directory and moved the images into it.
Having gotten past this difficult, the next one is a permissions problem. Here is the command and resulting output:
------------- 172:~/Sites/mediawiki-1.6.5 Ken$ sudo php maintenance/rebuildImages.php --missing
<h1><img src='/~Ken/mediawiki-1.6.5/skins/common/images/wiki.png' style='float:left;margin-right:1em' alt=''>ZBrushInfo has a problem</h1><p><strong>Sorry! This site is experiencing technical difficulties.</strong></p><p>Try waiting a few minutes and reloading.</p><p><small>(Can't contact the database server: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO) (127.0.0.1))</small></p>17 --------------
I've inserted a blank line to make clear the delineation between the input and output. Also note that I tried it both with and without 'sudo', and issued the command from both the main directory and from the 'maintenance' directory. To make it clear, the directory containing the images was maintenance/../uploads
I do of course know my name and password for the site (actually it's a test site running on my own machine), but I have no idea where the rebuildImages script would get this information from. There don't seem to be any command-line args. Again, could someone be kind enough to provide suggestions?
Your obvious newbie, Ken McDonald
Elliott F. Cable wrote:
Dir = directory = folder. The 'Uploads' folder, in you're mediawiki root folder (the main folder with the 'index.php' file directly in it) is where the images go.
On May 16, 2006, at 1:28 PM, Ken McDonald wrote:
Given that we have full access to our server, it appears to me that we should be able to batch upload the images from our Moin wiki using the "rebuildImages.php" script. Here are a few lines of comments from the start of this script:
- Script to update image metadata records
- Usage: php rebuildImages.php [--missing] [--dry-run]
- Options:
- --missing Crawl the uploads dir for images without records, and
add them only.Unfortunately, I have no idea what or where the "uploads dir" is. To put it more accurately, I don't know where or how on the commandline to specify the location of the images to upload. I've looked through both of the other files imported into this script, but without enlightenment :-(. Could anyone tell me how to get past this problem?
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