I recentlyhave this problem develop. I was doing some editing and at some point I decided to open the main page of my wiki to my complete astonishment all the color blocks was gone and uopn looking ate the source code I discovered that every equal sign = = = in the page had been replace with '''' I checked several pages and it is consistant through out the entire wiki site. Anyone know what to do?? Second issue is I believe this might a corrupt table in the database. Upon looking for the saved content I can not locate where the actual content is stored. The database seems OK but I wanted to look at some of the pages in a text viewer outside the wiki system. I don't know where Mediawiki is storing the content. Any help please. Thanks! Frosty
BTW if you want to take a look the wiki is http://www.physicswiki.net and I really need some pointers. I am new to managing a wiki siute.
John W Foster wrote:
I recentlyhave this problem develop. I was doing some editing and at some point I decided to open the main page of my wiki to my complete astonishment all the color blocks was gone and uopn looking ate the source code I discovered that every equal sign = = = in the page had been replace with '''' I checked several pages and it is consistant through out the entire wiki site. Anyone know what to do?? Second issue is I believe this might a corrupt table in the database. Upon looking for the saved content I can not locate where the actual content is stored. The database seems OK but I wanted to look at some of the pages in a text viewer outside the wiki system. I don't know where Mediawiki is storing the content. Any help please. Thanks! Frosty
BTW if you want to take a look the wiki is http://www.physicswiki.net and I really need some pointers. I am new to managing a wiki siute.
Are you sure it's the = signs replace by ' and not ' replaced to ' ? That seems more likely to me from the context. That would also be explained by "features" like magic_quotes. Just that Mediawiki is magic quotes aware. So my guess is that there's anything else reescaping the page contents for the db.
On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 23:29 +0100, Platonides wrote:
John W Foster wrote:
I recentlyhave this problem develop. I was doing some editing and at some point I decided to open the main page of my wiki to my complete astonishment all the color blocks was gone and uopn looking ate the source code I discovered that every equal sign = = = in the page had been replace with '''' I checked several pages and it is consistant through out the entire wiki site. Anyone know what to do?? Second issue is I believe this might a corrupt table in the database. Upon looking for the saved content I can not locate where the actual content is stored. The database seems OK but I wanted to look at some of the pages in a text viewer outside the wiki system. I don't know where Mediawiki is storing the content. Any help please. Thanks! Frosty
BTW if you want to take a look the wiki is http://www.physicswiki.net and I really need some pointers. I am new to managing a wiki siute.
Are you sure it's the = signs replace by ' and not ' replaced to ' ? That seems more likely to me from the context. That would also be explained by "features" like magic_quotes. Just that Mediawiki is magic quotes aware. So my guess is that there's anything else reescaping the page contents for the db.
Well, right you are, I did a completely empty page and used every item in the button lineup and the only ones that were altered when I saved it were the one where the wiki formatting in a ' as you said. Now the question is WHY??? What is the Magic Quotes? Any Help is appreciated. I will also googlke it to see what I can learn. Thanks for the pointers to a nooooby! Frosty
On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 23:29 +0100, Platonides wrote:
John W Foster wrote:
I recentlyhave this problem develop. I was doing some editing and at some point I decided to open the main page of my wiki to my complete astonishment all the color blocks was gone and uopn looking ate the source code I discovered that every equal sign = = = in the page had been replace with '''' I checked several pages and it is consistant through out the entire wiki site. Anyone know what to do?? Second issue is I believe this might a corrupt table in the database. Upon looking for the saved content I can not locate where the actual content is stored. The database seems OK but I wanted to look at some of the pages in a text viewer outside the wiki system. I don't know where Mediawiki is storing the content. Any help please. Thanks! Frosty
BTW if you want to take a look the wiki is http://www.physicswiki.net and I really need some pointers. I am new to managing a wiki siute.
Are you sure it's the = signs replace by ' and not ' replaced to ' ? That seems more likely to me from the context. That would also be explained by "features" like magic_quotes. Just that Mediawiki is magic quotes aware. So my guess is that there's anything else reescaping the page contents for the db.
OK scrub the first reply. I followed your tip and I had indeed enabled the runtime use of Magic Quotes in my php.ini that is used by apache. I disabled it and VOILA "NO MORE ERRORS. All is well again. Thanks for the tips!!!!! Frosty
John W Foster wrote:
OK scrub the first reply. I followed your tip and I had indeed enabled the runtime use of Magic Quotes in my php.ini that is used by apache. I disabled it and VOILA "NO MORE ERRORS. All is well again. Thanks for the tips!!!!! Frosty
:-) I wonder why it appeared, though. WebRequest is supposed to fix_magic_quotes()...
On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 23:44 +0100, Platonides wrote:
John W Foster wrote:
OK scrub the first reply. I followed your tip and I had indeed enabled the runtime use of Magic Quotes in my php.ini that is used by apache. I disabled it and VOILA "NO MORE ERRORS. All is well again. Thanks for the tips!!!!! Frosty
:-) I wonder why it appeared, though. WebRequest is supposed to fix_magic_quotes()...
Well, since I don't know what Webrequest is right now I can't really guess. I will do a bit more research. It may be an extension that I do not have installed. I have only a very few set up right now. I do want to get most of the editing tools installed, though, so I will reply as I get further along. As I sid I am a real newbie in this wiki world. Thanks!! Frosty
John W Foster wrote:
Well, since I don't know what Webrequest is right now I can't really guess. I will do a bit more research. It may be an extension that I do not have installed.
WebRequest is a part of the core code that deals with web client interaction, for example it handles the query string at the end of the URL (?title=Pagename etc.) and any data you submit via a form - providing it in a useful form for other parts of the code. Platonides was explaining that the WebRequest part of the code is meant to fix the trouble you've been having, unfourtunatley, for some reason, it hasn't. This may be a bug, but it should be noted that the installer won't let you install MediaWiki while magic_quotes_runtime or magic_quotes_sybase is enabled, this may or may not be related.
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