John,
Are you suggesting that I create a sub-directory call "Mediawiki" and put the wiki there?
I'll give it a try.
Thanks.
Daryl
On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 9:49 AM, John phoenixoverride@gmail.com wrote:
I would use a folder and not place mediawiki in the root of web server
On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 10:28 AM Daryl Rose rosede12@gmail.com wrote:
Brian,
Thank you for the reply.
Yes, I know that v1.25 is out of date and needs to be upgraded. I'll tackle that once I get it migrated over to a new environment.
The original environment *WAS *an XAMPP and was installed as a Bitnami package. Because of security vulnerabilities, the entire environment
needs
to be upgraded. But because I used XAMPP, I can't upgrade Apache, or
MySQL
or PHP. I would have to wipe out the entire install and do a fresh install. That is not acceptable, so I decided to do what I should have done the first time, install Apache, MySQL, PHP and Mediawiki as
individual
components.
Even though I was successful at accessing the database from the command line, and verifying the contents, I decided to change the password and tried the wiki site again. This time I received an error saying that it could not find the front page. This is actually a step forward. This is telling me that it connected to the database.
So now I'm facing path issues. The intitial install was "/opt/lampp/apps/mediawiki/htdocs". The new path is "/var/www/html". After changing the database password, I got the following URL:
"<FQDN>/mediawiki/Main_Page". I looked in LocalSettings.php and saw that "$wgArticlePath" was set to "/mediawiki/$1". I removed "mediawiki" from the path, stop/started Apache, but now I get "<FQDN>/Main_Page" in the
url
bar, and "The requested URL /Main_Page was not found on this server". Looking a little deeper, I see "$wgScriptPath" set to "/mediawiki". I
know
that isn't correct, so I changed it ".". I didn't know if that would
work
or not. Apparently not.
There is still a path issue somewhere, but I'm not sure where. I know
that
in the database I saw ""/opt/lampp/apps/mediawiki", but I don't want to start changing paths in the database until I know that I can at least
bring
up the main page. If there is a path in the database that I need to change, please let me know where to look.
Thank you.
Daryl
On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 1:00 AM, Brian Wolff bawolff@gmail.com wrote:
First of all, Mediawiki 1.25 is out of date and has publically known security vulnerabilities. You should upgrade.
For the error, I would start by checking $wgDBServer. If your db is on
the
same host as mediawiki and commandline is working, it could be
something
like using network vs local socket. If 'localhost' is not working try '127.0.0.1' instead (or vice versa)
Beyond that, I would look into if there is anything preventing
mediawiki
from talking to the db (e.g. firewall, selinux, etc)
-- bawolff
On Friday, November 17, 2017, Daryl Rose rosede12@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
I just moved an existing environment from a SLES 11 SP4
xampp/Bitnami
installation to a CentOS 7.4, Apache, MySQL, PHP environment. There
were
security issues with the original installation, so I had to move to something that I could upgrade components when as vulnerabilities are discovered.
According to the documentation, I should be able to export/import the database and then copy over the MediaWiki directory, and all should
me
good. Well, there are a couple of minor gotcha's in the doc's, but
for
the
most part, it's pretty straight forward.
I had a few minor issues with the php, but once I got that figured
out, I
now get a page that tells me that the site is experiencing technical difficulties (Cannot access the database).
I've verified that the database name, user name and password are
correct.
From the command line, I can access the database using the database
user
and I can see the tables.
I'm not a DBA or a developer, so I'm not sure where to start troubleshooting. Other than verifying that the credentials are
correct.
The original installation was PHP v5.6.12 and the new installation is
PHP
v5.6.32. Other than that, I believe everything else is the same. MediaWiki is V1.25.
Any suggestions on where to start looking?
Thanks
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