I think that's probably what happened Tom. My ISP claimed it was a "bug "in MediaWiki 1.21 and not their responsibility. I've just managed to install 1.25 and move most of the content over (luckily export/import still works). It's pretty scary to suddenly have the site crash for no reason, but it could have been worse.
Thanks to everyone who responded,
B.
-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Tom Sent: 18 June 2015 15:27 To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] MediaWiki installation suddenly failing
Did they change your version of php?
Tom
On Jun 18, 2015, at 10:04 AM, John Foster jfoster81747@gmail.com wrote:
Sounds a bit like an issue I had a month ago when moving from one hardware setup to another. Database issue. Try resavin g the editing content of the main page, just as though you were making it for the first time. I.E. Cut the content then past it back into the page and save it. If thast rtestores the main page then try running the command;"php refreshLinks.php" from the maintenance directory of mediawiki. This will take a while & I suggest doing it in a root terminal using sudo. This is what worked for me, but just a suggestion. best of luck.
On 06/17/2015 12:37 AM, Brett Langston wrote: Hi Everyone,
My MediaWiki site at:
http://wiki.tchaikovsky-research.net/wiki/Main_Page
has suddenly started Io fail in a bizarre way, i.e. sections of some page content are not displaying. Some pages are fine, others have words or sections missing, and many more (like the homepage) have no visible content. The content still exists and can be edited, but just isn't displaying.
No changes have been made to the MediaWiki set up for months, and this has only happened during the last 2 days. My hosting ISP is being unhelpful, although I suspect they may be at fault. Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Brett Langston www.tchaikovsky-research.net
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