Brion Vibber wrote:
Well, "broke" and "gibberish"
aren't really too useful. What we might be
able to use is an error message, or a description of the symptoms.
Now, if I go to the URL you give above right now I see:
"Error in fetchObject(): Can't open file: 'page.InnoDB'. (errno:
1)"
(followed by a stacktrace which is not too relevant)
They key problem here is your database error message. It sounds like you
have some fundamental problem with MySQL. Check MySQL's error log; check
the installation; check the data integrity of the files.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)
Again, I apologize for not knowing the right words to use; I wish I did,
then perhaps we wouldn't have this problem that we have.
The symptom is that last Tuesday our site was perfectly fine. No one
made any changes. On Thursday we were presented with the error that is
currently on the site. We have completely uninstalled MediaWiki twice
and re-installed it. Still no change.
How does one go about checking all of these things you suggested? I am
not trying to be a wise-guy, it's just that we haven't a clue as what
any of this means. Where would this error log be located? I just looked
all thru the MySQL interface and see no place for logs to be checked.
How and where do we check the installation? And we got the files
straight from SourceForge, we have always been told that they provide
files with integrity (is this what is meant by check data integrity of
files?).
On other sites we have been able to use WordPress and PostNuke without
problem, so we usually don't have a problem installing a program. And we
didn't with MediaWiki either; everything was fine until sometime last week.
Thank you for your help and suggestions.
http://metaministry.com/wiki/
--
Grace and Peace,
Paul Oyler
<http://justifiedbygrace.com>