I'm sorry to hear that, Jasmine :( Maybe you can get help on Stack Overflow or Server Fault?
With the help of this article at https://confluence.atlassian.com/crowdkb/unable-to-perform-administrative-fu... I entered:
SELECT * FROM information_schema.TABLES WHERE table_schema = 'centralauth' AND table_collation != 'utf8_bin';
...and I noticed that most of the tables use engine MyISAM.
I changed that using ALTER TABLE globaluser ENGINE=INNODB; and then I was able to do things like:
ALTER TABLE globaluser CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_bin;
Everything works perfectly now.
Have a nice evening!
Thanks and cheers,
Till
On 9/22/2016 4:29 PM, Jasmine Smith wrote:
Sadly, there is virtually no help for CentralAuth. You'll likely get told to use a shared users table.
I had an issue months ago that no one helped with.
On 22 Sep 2016, at 03:22 pm, "Till Kraemer" info@till-kraemer.com wrote:
P.S.: I also created the user User on the datawiki and tried to rename him to টিল via Special:RenameUser but that resulted in the same error :/
On 9/21/2016 5:33 PM, Till Kraemer wrote: Hi,
I'm running a little pool wiki for files, a data wiki for, well data, and several language wikis (MediaWiki 1.27.1).
Users টিল and Till have accounts on enwiki. I can create a local user টিল on poolwiki via createLocalAccount.php with no problems. I also can create a local user Till on datawiki without any trouble, but when I try to create টিল on datawiki, I'm getting the following error:
A database query error has occurred. Query: SELECT gu_id,gu_name,lu_wiki,gu_salt,gu_password,gu_auth_token,gu_locked,gu_hidden,gu_registration,gu_email,gu_email_authenticated,gu_home_db,gu_cas_token FROM `globaluser` LEFT OUTER JOIN `localuser` ON ((gu_name=lu_name) AND lu_wiki = 'datawiki') WHERE gu_name = 'টিল' LIMIT 1 Function: CentralAuthUser::loadState Error: 1267 Illegal mix of collations (latin1_bin,IMPLICIT) and (utf8_general_ci,COERCIBLE) for operation '=' (127.0.0.1)
Table globaluser on database centralauth looks like this:
| Field | Type | Collation | +------------------------------+------------------+-------------------+ | gu_id | int(11) | NULL | | gu_name | varchar(255) | latin1_bin | | gu_enabled | varchar(14) | latin1_swedish_ci | | gu_enabled_method | enum('opt-in', | latin1_swedish_ci | | |'batch','auto', | | | |'admin') | | | gu_home_db | varchar(255) | latin1_bin | | gu_email | varchar(255) | latin1_bin | | gu_email_authenticated | char(14) | latin1_bin | | gu_salt | varchar(16) | latin1_bin | | gu_password | tinyblob | NULL | | gu_locked | tinyint(1) | NULL | | gu_hidden | varbinary(255) | NULL | | gu_registration | varchar(14) | latin1_bin | | gu_password_reset_key | tinyblob | NULL | | gu_password_reset_expiration | varchar(14) | latin1_bin | | gu_auth_token | varbinary(32) | NULL | | gu_cas_token | int(10) unsigned | NULL |
I tried to do things like ALTER TABLE `globaluser` MODIFY `gu_password_reset_expiration` varchar(14) CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_bin; but that doesn't work with gu_name:
ERROR 1071 (42000): Specified key was too long; max key length is 1000 bytes
I can do gu_name varchar(200), but I'm probably not supposed to do that.
I also can change gu_name varchar(255) to utf8_bin in a freshly created centralauth database, but not in the one that is already populated with my users.
Exporting the old centralauth database, changing gu_name to utf8_bin in an editor and importing it, doesn't work either: same error as mentioned above.
How can I fix this?
I'm running MariaDB 10.0.25 which seem to use XtraDB by default. Would it help to switch to InnoDB?
And: my latest language wikis have $wgDBTableOptions = "ENGINE=InnoDB, DEFAULT CHARSET=binary"; so I changed the old wikis from $wgDBTableOptions = "TYPE=InnoDB"; in LocalSettings.php to the settings of the new wikis. I don't know if that's a problem.
Aside from the problems mentioned above, should I change every database and table of the old wikis from latin1_bin to utf8_bin, so that they are in line with the new MediaWiki installations?
Any help is more than welcome!
Thanks and cheers,
Till