Odds are bitnami broke something. Many Linux distributions provide MediaWiki in a packaged format for that distro. These packages typically contain obsolete & unsupported versions

MediaWiki; they also like to move around & change files, & do other super-counterproductive things. You'll get the best support here if you install MediaWiki directly from one of our tarballs - https://www.mediawiki.org/ - or Git https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_Git On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 8:50 AM, Brenton Horne <brentonhorne77(a)gmail.com> wrote: 1.24.1 > via bitnami and it worked fine until I restarted my PC and now, even

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I'd love to but every time I've installed it from the tarballs in the

I end up failing miserably. I installed LAMP, I followed all the instructions online I could find but I failed on Windows and Ubuntu. This is why I used bitnami as a last resort. On 5 February 2015 at 01:33, John <phoenixoverride(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Odds are bitnami broke something. > > Many Linux distributions provide MediaWiki in a packaged format for

> distro. These packages typically contain obsolete & unsupported

of > MediaWiki; they also like to move around & change files, & do other > super-counterproductive things. You'll get the best support here if you > install MediaWiki directly from one of our tarballs - > https://www.mediawiki.org/ - or Git > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_Git > > On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 8:50 AM, Brenton Horne <

with > > my servers (Apache & MySQL, respectively) running (which I checked

> > running by running the manager-linux.run file in the MediaWiki > directory. I > > even restarted them both manually) whenever I open up > > http://localhost:8080/mediawiki/ I get a blank page. Going to > > http://localhost:8080/ or http://localhost:8080/phpmyadmin works

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@ John um where's the URL of this convo? I'd like to chime in but I'm not familiar with IRC. On 5 February 2015 at 02:09, John &lt;phoenixoverride(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > I am currently walking someone thru the install process if you want to

> on to irc://freenode/mediawiki > > On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 10:53 AM, Brenton Horne <

> wrote: > > > I'd love to but every time I've installed it from the tarballs in the > past > > I end up failing miserably. I installed LAMP, I followed all the > > instructions online I could find but I failed on Windows and Ubuntu. > This > > is why I used bitnami as a last resort. > > > > On 5 February 2015 at 01:33, John &lt;phoenixoverride(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > > > > > Odds are bitnami broke something. > > > > > > Many Linux distributions provide MediaWiki in a packaged format for > that > > > distro. These packages typically contain obsolete & unsupported > versions > > of > > > MediaWiki; they also like to move around & change files, & do other > > > super-counterproductive things. You'll get the best support here if > you > > > install MediaWiki directly from one of our tarballs - > > > https://www.mediawiki.org/ - or Git > > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_Git > > > > > > On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 8:50 AM, Brenton Horne < > brentonhorne77(a)gmail.com&gt; > > > wrote: > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I'm presently running Ubuntu 14.04 32 bit and I installed

> > > 1.24.1 > > > > via bitnami and it worked fine until I restarted my PC and now,