I am working on moving my wiki from XP / WAMP to ubuntu server and configuring the wiki to do a 3 letter search instead of 4 was very straightforward in WAMP (once you knew how).

Can anyone give me some pointers on which parameters in which file(s) i need to change to achieve this in linux?

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I am currently working on installing mediawiki on ubuntu server and am documenting the process from start to finish.

There are some key areas that I will need to troubleshoot to complete this wiki / guide and my question is when i am done should i make a new post on mediwiki.org or try to edit the existing guide?

My guide will be specifically for ubuntu server 6.06 (LAMP).

Currently I have a working wiki installed the areas that are incomplete or not quite working as they should be are:

APC - mediawiki does not see it as installed Image upload - /var/www/wiki/images cannot be written to Postfix - not yet installed / tested

Comments welcome - If anyone is intersted in the current state of my documentation so far I can post it for review.

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I have resolved this issue since posting thanks - the solution was

sudo chown www-data:www-data /var/www/wiki/images

Thanks for the reply. > Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:54:05 -0400> From: ChristensenC@BATTELLE.ORG> To: mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Documentation - posting to Mediawiki.org> > I assume you have, but you did check the permissions on the images> folder?> > -----Original Message-----> From: mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org> [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Mike Lane> Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 10:37 AM> To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list> Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Documentation - posting to Mediawiki.org> > > Image upload - /var/www/wiki/images cannot be written to> > _______________________________________________> MediaWiki-l mailing list> MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org> http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _________________________________________________________________ Get free emoticon packs and customisation from Windows Live. http://www.pimpmylive.co.uk

Thanks for the reply - i have actually used these guides (and many others so far) in my quest to get MediaWiki and other things working on Ubuntu.

Having not used Ubuntu Server 7.04 I don't know yet if everything will work or not - I imagine that it would though.

I will read up on APC some more and try some other things which are in guides for debian etch etc.

I'll review the existing documentation and then look over mine when i am done and see how things stand - i don't think that having a guide that is known to be working for a specific platform is a bad thing - i just didn't want to cause more work for someone to look at what i posted and then have to merge it into an existing article. > Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:40:32 -0400> From: emufarmers@gmail.com> To: mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Documentation - posting to Mediawiki.org> > On 9/11/07, Mike Lane mikelane5@msn.com wrote:> >> > APC - mediawiki does not see it as installed> > First, are you sure PHP sees it?> > I would recommend that you examine the two existing Ubuntu installation> guides (> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Running_MediaWiki_on_Ubuntu_GNU/Linuxan... http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Running_MediaWiki_on_Ubuntu, though it> looks like the former is likely to be deleted soon anyway) and determine> whether they're substantive enough that you can try to merge what you have> into them, or whether you should aim for just creating your own guide. (If> your guide is going to be specific to Ubuntu Server 6.06 and not workable> for 7.04, you should probably make it a separate guide, though a more> integrated solution would probably be better.)> > > -- > Arr, ye emus, http://emufarmers.com%3E _______________________________________________> MediaWiki-l mailing list> MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org> http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _________________________________________________________________ The next generation of MSN Hotmail has arrived - Windows Live Hotmail http://www.newhotmail.co.uk

On 9/12/07, Mike Lane mikelane5@msn.com wrote:

I have an article in my wiki that when i click on the link i get a page cannot be found error - and so i cannot access the page to delete it.

How can i delete this page? I have created another page with a different name already.

Many thanks.

Do you have URL rewriting set up? If so, disable it, delete the page, and then re-enable it.

Mike wrote: --------- I don't think I have URL re-writing enabled - all of my URLs are 'ugly' if that is what you mean.

My problem is that I cannot view the page to delete it ---------

I think what Rob was asking, and we need to know, is how do you know the page is there and needs to be deleted? How are you trying to get to the page? And what, exactly do you see when you try to navigate there? Do you see a wiki page that says there is no page by this title? Or do you see a 404 Error this page cannot be located? Or some other error looking page?

One way to delete a page that the server times out trying to access is www.server.com/wiki/index.php?title=pageTitle&action=delete Where you put in your correct path information.

I've seen this on a Windows server when the article title contains a "" character. I don't remember how we deleted our errant page.

DanB

I've had a similar problem for quite a while. A page called "foobar." and one called "foobar" are treated identically if you try to delete but differently if you create them. The result is the that "foobar." stays around and is not deletable.

Works for me on a version downloaded from SVN not too long ago.

On 13/09/2007, Mike Lane mikelane5@msn.com wrote:

My article is called:

How to map share for web pages - \server\share_name

When i click on the article link (in special pages - all pages) I get the following error:

The page cannot be found

The page you are looking for might have been moved, had it's name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.

Well, it's almost certainly because of the backslashes. In my tests, a backslash (or 2) in the name causes the short urls to fail, but everything works fine if I type in the full url.

Have you tried going directly to:

index.php?title=How to map share for web pages - \server\share_name&action=delete

Thomas Dalton wrote:

Well, it's almost certainly because of the backslashes.

I've been wanting to make the backslash a forbidden character in titles on my wikis. However, given the write-once;read-never nature of regular expressions, I've been unable to figure out which of the numerous slashes to remove from:

$wgLegalTitleChars = " %!"$&'()*,\-.\/0-9:;=?@A-Z\\^_`a-z~\x80-\xFF+";

I've also been too lazy to experiment in my test wiki. I've been stymied by the purpose of the four slashes in the "A-Z\\^" part of that string. It might be obvious to some but not to me. Is there a need to double many of the \s here?

I suspect the "/" is what I should remove, but when I start from the left and decode the regex, it doesn't seem quite right.

Anyone want to explain what to change to forbid the / or am I doomed to experimentation? :-)

Mike

PS the guy that invented regex must have been on highly illegal drugs at the time. :-)

Thomas Dalton wrote:

...

I've also been too lazy to experiment in my test wiki. I've been stymied by the purpose of the four slashes in the "A-Z\\^" part of that string. It might be obvious to some but not to me. Is there a need to double many of the \s here?

I would imagine the doubling of 's is for escaping purposes, although why you'd end up with 4 in a row, I've no idea. I never did get the hang of regular expressions.

\ in a string literal means \ in the represented string.

\ in a regular expression means to match \ in the searched string.

Thus, \\ in a string literal *representation of* a regular expression means to match \ in the searched string.

Yeah, it's ugly. Welcome... to programming! :D

-- brion

Thomas Dalton wrote:

Are there not enough characters to go around?

Think how much more fun we'd have if regex was invented by the guy that came up with APL!

If 100 monkeys banged on 100 keyboards for 100 seconds, they'd write an APL + regex program that could write Shakespeare.

Mike