Okay, a few weeks ago my wiki stopped loading. The version I've got installed there is ancient, but it was working fine until one day it wasn't. At first the page was giving me indefinite load-times, sometimes followed by a 502 error (depending on what web browser I tried it on). I conversed with someone at my webspace provider and they rolled the stored page info back a couple days, and now I instead get:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_NAMESPACE, expecting T_STRING in /hermes/bosoraweb123/b65/ipw.joshua-w/public_html/wiki/includes/Namespace.php on line 46
The web-address for my wiki is http://www.joshua-wopr.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
I haven't touched the system in ages, and the tech help person seemed to think nothing had been altered (updated under the hood, say) at their end recently either. Any idea what's wrong?
Actually, no strike that... it was giving me a blank white page, not an infinite loadtime. And in some browsers was giving me a 502 when I pushed it a little. Everything else I said is correct.
On 12/28/2015 3:34 AM, Nomad of Norad wrote:
Okay, a few weeks ago my wiki stopped loading. The version I've got installed there is ancient, but it was working fine until one day it wasn't. At first the page was giving me indefinite load-times, sometimes followed by a 502 error (depending on what web browser I tried it on). I conversed with someone at my webspace provider and they rolled the stored page info back a couple days, and now I instead get:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_NAMESPACE, expecting T_STRING in /hermes/bosoraweb123/b65/ipw.joshua-w/public_html/wiki/includes/Namespace.php on line 46
The web-address for my wiki is http://www.joshua-wopr.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
I haven't touched the system in ages, and the tech help person seemed to think nothing had been altered (updated under the hood, say) at their end recently either. Any idea what's wrong?
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Have you tried debugging the Namespace.php file and seeing what's wrong in this line? No idea but maybe it could help.
Agnese
On 28 December 2015 at 09:37, Nomad of Norad nomad-php@joshua-wopr.com wrote:
Actually, no strike that... it was giving me a blank white page, not an infinite loadtime. And in some browsers was giving me a 502 when I pushed it a little. Everything else I said is correct.
On 12/28/2015 3:34 AM, Nomad of Norad wrote:
Okay, a few weeks ago my wiki stopped loading. The version I've got installed there is ancient, but it was working fine until one day it wasn't. At first the page was giving me indefinite load-times, sometimes followed by a 502 error (depending on what web browser I tried it on). I conversed with someone at my webspace provider and they rolled the stored page info back a couple days, and now I instead get:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_NAMESPACE, expecting T_STRING in /hermes/bosoraweb123/b65/ipw.joshua-w/public_html/wiki/includes/Namespace.php on line 46
The web-address for my wiki is http://www.joshua-wopr.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
I haven't touched the system in ages, and the tech help person seemed to think nothing had been altered (updated under the hood, say) at their end recently either. Any idea what's wrong?
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Hi Nomand,
why not investing the time to update your wiki to a LTS version instead of trying to figure out what your wiki stopped? Somehow my first guess would be that your PHP version got updated. Which mediawiki version was your ancient wiki using?
Regards,
Dennis Roczek
Am 28.12.2015 um 09:56 schrieb Agnese Camellini:
Have you tried debugging the Namespace.php file and seeing what's wron
g in
this line? No idea but maybe it could help.
Agnese
On 28 December 2015 at 09:37, Nomad of Norad <nomad-php@joshua-wopr.co
m>
wrote:
Actually, no strike that... it was giving me a blank white page, not
an
infinite loadtime. And in some browsers was giving me a 502 when I p
ushed
it a little. Everything else I said is correct.
On 12/28/2015 3:34 AM, Nomad of Norad wrote:
Okay, a few weeks ago my wiki stopped loading. The version I've got installed there is ancient, but it was working fine until one day it wasn't. At first the page was giving me indefinite load-times, some
times
followed by a 502 error (depending on what web browser I tried it on
). I
conversed with someone at my webspace provider and they rolled the s
tored
page info back a couple days, and now I instead get:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_NAMESPACE, expecting T_STRIN
G in
/hermes/bosoraweb123/b65/ipw.joshua-w/public_html/wiki/includes/Name
space.php
on line 46
The web-address for my wiki is http://www.joshua-wopr.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
I haven't touched the system in ages, and the tech help person seeme
d to
think nothing had been altered (updated under the hood, say) at thei
r end
recently either. Any idea what's wrong?
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This sounds like you have a really old version of MediaWiki where that class was still named 'Namespace' and not 'MWNamespace' and your version of php was upgraded from a similarly ancient version to something above 5.3 that supports namespaces.
Upgrading MediaWiki should fix that problem.
~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://danielfriesen.name/]
On 2015-12-28 12:34 AM, Nomad of Norad wrote:
Okay, a few weeks ago my wiki stopped loading. The version I've got installed there is ancient, but it was working fine until one day it wasn't. At first the page was giving me indefinite load-times, sometimes followed by a 502 error (depending on what web browser I tried it on). I conversed with someone at my webspace provider and they rolled the stored page info back a couple days, and now I instead get:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_NAMESPACE, expecting T_STRING in /hermes/bosoraweb123/b65/ipw.joshua-w/public_html/wiki/includes/Namespace.php on line 46
The web-address for my wiki is http://www.joshua-wopr.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
I haven't touched the system in ages, and the tech help person seemed to think nothing had been altered (updated under the hood, say) at their end recently either. Any idea what's wrong?
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Yeah, very old install of Mediawiki. Might be from a decade ago, my memory is hazy. Presumably I can just install the newest version of Mediawiki and it will convert over the articles and login-accounts in the DB and stuff to whatever format the current one uses? Or is there something I need to check first?
On 12/28/2015 9:16 AM, Daniel Friesen wrote:
This sounds like you have a really old version of MediaWiki where that class was still named 'Namespace' and not 'MWNamespace' and your version of php was upgraded from a similarly ancient version to something above 5.3 that supports namespaces.
Upgrading MediaWiki should fix that problem.
~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://danielfriesen.name/]
On 2015-12-28 12:34 AM, Nomad of Norad wrote:
Okay, a few weeks ago my wiki stopped loading. The version I've got installed there is ancient, but it was working fine until one day it wasn't. At first the page was giving me indefinite load-times, sometimes followed by a 502 error (depending on what web browser I tried it on). I conversed with someone at my webspace provider and they rolled the stored page info back a couple days, and now I instead get:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_NAMESPACE, expecting T_STRING in /hermes/bosoraweb123/b65/ipw.joshua-w/public_html/wiki/includes/Namespace.php on line 46
The web-address for my wiki is http://www.joshua-wopr.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
I haven't touched the system in ages, and the tech help person seemed to think nothing had been altered (updated under the hood, say) at their end recently either. Any idea what's wrong?
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On 2015-12-29 09:32, Nomad of Norad wrote:
Yeah, very old install of Mediawiki. Might be from a decade ago, my memory is hazy. Presumably I can just install the newest version of Mediawiki and it will convert over the articles and login-accounts in the DB and stuff to whatever format the current one uses? Or is there something I need to check first?
Yes, it should just work. Unless you're upgrading from MediaWiki version older than 1.5, in which case it might be a bit more involved (there were major schema changes in 1.5). The process is basically to extract the new files over the old ones and run the update.php maintenance script (or the web updater, if you don't have shell access and your wiki is small).
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading explains it all rather well, and also notes the various corner cases run into (but probably won't).
On 12/29/2015 6:58 AM, Bartosz Dziewoński wrote:
On 2015-12-29 09:32, Nomad of Norad wrote:
Yeah, very old install of Mediawiki. Might be from a decade ago, my memory is hazy. Presumably I can just install the newest version of Mediawiki and it will convert over the articles and login-accounts in the DB and stuff to whatever format the current one uses? Or is there something I need to check first?
Yes, it should just work. Unless you're upgrading from MediaWiki version older than 1.5, in which case it might be a bit more involved (there were major schema changes in 1.5). The process is basically to extract the new files over the old ones and run the update.php maintenance script (or the web updater, if you don't have shell access and your wiki is small).
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading explains it all rather well, and also notes the various corner cases run into (but probably won't).
So, how do I determine which version I currently have?
Hi,
usually, the page Special:Version will tell. E.g. http://mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Version
–Sabine
On 2015.12.31, at 11:45, Nomad of Norad nomad-php@joshua-wopr.com wrote:
On 12/29/2015 6:58 AM, Bartosz Dziewoński wrote:
On 2015-12-29 09:32, Nomad of Norad wrote:
Yeah, very old install of Mediawiki. Might be from a decade ago, my memory is hazy. Presumably I can just install the newest version of Mediawiki and it will convert over the articles and login-accounts in the DB and stuff to whatever format the current one uses? Or is there something I need to check first?
Yes, it should just work. Unless you're upgrading from MediaWiki version older than 1.5, in which case it might be a bit more involved (there were major schema changes in 1.5). The process is basically to extract the new files over the old ones and run the update.php maintenance script (or the web updater, if you don't have shell access and your wiki is small).
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading explains it all rather well, and also notes the various corner cases run into (but probably won't).
So, how do I determine which version I currently have?
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And if your wiki is down and you can't check Special:Version, the README should have the version too.
okay, apparently mine is 2006-04-05, at least that's what it says on the first line of the README file.
On 12/31/2015 6:57 AM, Bartosz Dziewoński wrote:
And if your wiki is down and you can't check Special:Version, the README should have the version too.
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On 2016-01-02 10:15, Nomad of Norad wrote:
okay, apparently mine is 2006-04-05, at least that's what it says on the first line of the README file.
Hmm, that's pretty old, and it seems we didn't have the version number in README back them. I looked at the version history and the README file had this date between MediaWiki 1.6 and 1.12 - so it's at least modern history and not antiquity ;) , hopefully you'll have no trouble upgrading. The RELEASE-NOTES file should have the version for real.
That sounds like you have a preantiquated version of MediaWiki and your host has updated PHP. You need to update MediaWiki to a modern version.
On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 11:34 AM, Nomad of Norad nomad-php@joshua-wopr.com wrote:
Okay, a few weeks ago my wiki stopped loading. The version I've got installed there is ancient, but it was working fine until one day it wasn't. At first the page was giving me indefinite load-times, sometimes followed by a 502 error (depending on what web browser I tried it on). I conversed with someone at my webspace provider and they rolled the stored page info back a couple days, and now I instead get:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_NAMESPACE, expecting T_STRING in /hermes/bosoraweb123/b65/ipw.joshua-w/public_html/wiki/includes/Namespace.php on line 46
The web-address for my wiki is http://www.joshua-wopr.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
I haven't touched the system in ages, and the tech help person seemed to think nothing had been altered (updated under the hood, say) at their end recently either. Any idea what's wrong?
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