Greetings Wiki Admins!
Thanks for letting me join your list, I hope it's OK to ask support-style questions
here.
I recently installed a MediaWiki 1.3.9 instance on FreeBSD 4.10, Apache 1.3.33, and mySQL
4.0.15. I wanted the stable release (which is why I'm < 1.4) but the secure one
(which is why I went > 1.3.7). The pages are not loading quite right: that is to say,
the page source loads immediately but the page does not render for 30s in IE, 2m in NN,
and never in Opera. I have narrowed the problem to these three tags:
Line 17 <script
src="/index.php?title=-&action=raw&gen=js&smaxage=0"
type="text/javascript"></script>
Lines 19-21
<style type="text/css">/*<![CDATA[*/ @import
"/index.php?title=-&action=raw&smaxage=0&gen=css";
@import
"/index.php?title=User:Buz/monobook.css&action=raw&ctype=text/css";
/*]]>*/</style>
and Line 22 <script
src="/index.php?title=User:Buz/monobook.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript&dontcountme=s"
type="text/javascript"></script>
(I apologize in advance if my mail client wraps these lines).
In each case, instead of rendering output, the php sends a redirect header to (I can only
assume) itself over and over and over. So IE gives up in 30s, NN gives up with an error
message "Redirection limit for this URL exceeded." and Opera continues
redirecting forever.
So here's my action point and question: Is this a known problem? Is there a known
fix/workaround? Does the known fix imply upgrading MediaWiki to an unstable build or
changing the database? Does anyone else experience this problem or have they fixed it?
If there is no good fix I'll simply start commenting out lines of the PHP source until
it works, since these all seem to be targeted to user settings flexibility which is a
concern I do not share at the moment. Correct me if I'm wrong :)
Much respect to the hard-working members of the open-source community.