On 7/20/06, Ryan Marks rmarks@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
Last night I installed MediaWiki 1.6.8 on RHEL3 running Apache 1.3.36, PHP 4.4.2, and MySQL 4.1.19-standard. When I click on a link to a page that doesn't exist yet, I am taken to an edit page, but see this error message before actually doing an edit: Sorry! We could not process your edit due to a loss of session data. Please try again. If it still doesn't work, try logging out and logging back in.
My configuration has only changed to Eliminating index.php from the urlhttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Eliminating_index.php_from_the_urlusing the first option (Using aliases in httpd.conf). I am getting this error on three different machines and on each machine, I have logged out, cleared the cache, closed and open the browser, logged back in and still get the error. I also get the error when not logged in. I seached for this error and found a Wikietech-l post about this from June. http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2006-June/036112.html
Is there a problem with this customization or a problem with MediaWiki 1.6.8that I've overlooked?
Do you have the editing user preferences set to preview on first edit?
If so it looks like you ran into the same bug that I did. If you turn off that preference it should work.
I discovered this in version 1.6.7, but it looks like it wasn't fixed in 1.6.8.