I had a perfectly functioning wiki, happily making edits and uploading stuff. All was good. http://law.flindersclubs.asn.au/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
Then *something* happened at the hosting company that has broken my wiki. :-(
1. To login, I now need to tick "Remember my password across sessions.", otherwise it reverts to my IP address
2. When uploading, I get the red msg ; "Upload error. The file you uploaded seems to be empty. This might be due to a typo in the file name."
3. When I do make a change, and save changes, it's as if I hit the preview button. The changes are *not* saved.
So essentially I'm stuck with a wiki stuck in time. A stiki-wiki
I'm running : MediaWiki (http://wikipedia.sf.net/): 1.4.9 PHP (http://www.php.net/): 4.3.10 (cgi) (zipped output of php -i attached) MySQL (http://www.mysql.com/): 4.0.18-Max
I get valid cookies for : PHPSESSID - expires at end of sesssion Token, UserID and UserName - all expire in one month
The hosting company won't talk to me directly, and the intemediary is not really helpful. I do have SSH access, but with quite limited, non-root access.
My only clue is that this page http://law.flindersclubs.asn.au/wiki/index.php?title=Photos
shows an incomplete thumbnail. The photos were all uploaded - these uploads looks like the last thing that was done to the wiki just before it broke.
So, I don't know if we hit a diskspace limit (I've been advised that it's been increased anyway), and if that broke something, or if this is co-incidence, and some underlying PHP, or Apache thing has changed that has broken the wiki.
Any ideas gratefully received, cheers, darren.
On 11/3/05, Darren Kruse darren.kruse@gmail.com wrote:
I had a perfectly functioning wiki, happily making edits and uploading stuff. All was good. http://law.flindersclubs.asn.au/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
Then *something* happened at the hosting company that has broken my wiki. :-(
- To login, I now need to tick "Remember my password across
sessions.", otherwise it reverts to my IP address
- When uploading, I get the red msg ; "Upload error. The file you
uploaded seems to be empty. This might be due to a typo in the file name."
- When I do make a change, and save changes, it's as if I hit the
preview button. The changes are *not* saved.
So essentially I'm stuck with a wiki stuck in time. A stiki-wiki
I'm running : MediaWiki (http://wikipedia.sf.net/): 1.4.9 PHP (http://www.php.net/): 4.3.10 (cgi) (zipped output of php -i attached) MySQL (http://www.mysql.com/): 4.0.18-Max
I get valid cookies for : PHPSESSID - expires at end of sesssion Token, UserID and UserName - all expire in one month
The hosting company won't talk to me directly, and the intemediary is not really helpful. I do have SSH access, but with quite limited, non-root access.
My only clue is that this page http://law.flindersclubs.asn.au/wiki/index.php?title=Photos
shows an incomplete thumbnail. The photos were all uploaded - these uploads looks like the last thing that was done to the wiki just before it broke.
So, I don't know if we hit a diskspace limit (I've been advised that it's been increased anyway), and if that broke something, or if this is co-incidence, and some underlying PHP, or Apache thing has changed that has broken the wiki.
Any ideas gratefully received, cheers, darren.
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I've got no idea, but posting essentially the same thing three times in just about a day is not likely to help you get an answer.
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Hi Rick, I'm *seriously* sorry about this..
Now, when I look at http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2005-November/thread.html
I can now see the question is posted, but in my gmail view, I *never* saw my question being copied to myself (with a pre-pended [Mediawiki-l], so I had assumed it wasn't getting thru.. whoops.
Does this list not send the poster a copy of what you posted yourself ??
sorry, my bad. doh.
darren.
On 04/11/05, Rick DeNatale rick.denatale@gmail.com wrote:
On 11/3/05, Darren Kruse darren.kruse@gmail.com wrote:
I had a perfectly functioning wiki, happily making edits and uploading stuff. All was good. http://law.flindersclubs.asn.au/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
Then *something* happened at the hosting company that has broken my wiki. :-(
- To login, I now need to tick "Remember my password across
sessions.", otherwise it reverts to my IP address
- When uploading, I get the red msg ; "Upload error. The file you
uploaded seems to be empty. This might be due to a typo in the file name."
- When I do make a change, and save changes, it's as if I hit the
preview button. The changes are *not* saved.
So essentially I'm stuck with a wiki stuck in time. A stiki-wiki
I'm running : MediaWiki (http://wikipedia.sf.net/): 1.4.9 PHP (http://www.php.net/): 4.3.10 (cgi) (zipped output of php -i attached) MySQL (http://www.mysql.com/): 4.0.18-Max
I get valid cookies for : PHPSESSID - expires at end of sesssion Token, UserID and UserName - all expire in one month
The hosting company won't talk to me directly, and the intemediary is not really helpful. I do have SSH access, but with quite limited, non-root access.
My only clue is that this page http://law.flindersclubs.asn.au/wiki/index.php?title=Photos
shows an incomplete thumbnail. The photos were all uploaded - these uploads looks like the last thing that was done to the wiki just before it broke.
So, I don't know if we hit a diskspace limit (I've been advised that it's been increased anyway), and if that broke something, or if this is co-incidence, and some underlying PHP, or Apache thing has changed that has broken the wiki.
Any ideas gratefully received, cheers, darren.
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I've got no idea, but posting essentially the same thing three times in just about a day is not likely to help you get an answer.
-- Rick DeNatale
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Rick DeNatale wrote:
I've got no idea, but posting essentially the same thing three times in just about a day is not likely to help you get an answer.
and to say that, don't quote the *entire* message jdd
Firstly, sorry again over my lack of list ettiquete. (dang GMail interface !)
As I'm *assuming* that it's probably the hosting co. that changed some PHP , or cookie related thing, does anyone think it may help to upgrade from 1.4.9 to 1.4.12 , and see if re-running the installer will recognize the changed underlying settings ?
Given that the hosting co. won't talk directly to me, and I only have limted , non-root rights via SSH, limiting my ability to poke around, is an upgrade a usefull option ?
cheers, darren. http://law.flindersclubs.asn.au/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
Darren Kruse wrote:
As I'm *assuming* that it's probably the hosting co. that changed some PHP , or cookie related thing, does anyone think it may help to upgrade from 1.4.9 to 1.4.12 , and see if re-running the installer will recognize the changed underlying settings ?
Given that the hosting co. won't talk directly to me, and I only have limted , non-root rights via SSH, limiting my ability to poke around, is an upgrade a usefull option ?
If your hosting company won't talk to you, you need to find a hosting company that's responsive to their customers' needs.
More generally, you should have at this point already checked the session configuration and whether you need to for instance use a configuration such as that recommended for http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Running_MediaWiki_on_Sourceforge.net
If this is a public-facing wiki, you should upgrade to 1.4.12 regardless of whether it has anything to do with this problem, as there are security and data corruption issues resolved by newer releases.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
Brion, thanks for replying.
As it turned out that it was a simple matter of running out of disk space.
I had initially guessed that was the case, from looking at the half-built thumbnail, but when the host admin told me that he had increased the quota and it didn't help then I went off looking for other reasons, didn't find any, and ended up posting to the list.
It seems that despite the quota being increased, there was a quota lock in place that stayed until you deleted something. When I went in via SSH to make a backup of LocalSettings.php it failed with a obvious quota error, I deleted some old crap and bada-bing ! it all worked again ! :-) - (sighs of relief all-around at discovering it was a *simple* problem)
thanks everyone for your suggestions, and hopefully the archive of this thread will help someone else in future.
cheers, darren. ps - all the pubcrawl photos that took over the quota limit / disk space are up now :-) http://law.flindersclubs.asn.au/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
On 05/11/05, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
If your hosting company won't talk to you, you need to find a hosting company that's responsive to their customers' needs.
More generally, you should have at this point already checked the session configuration and whether you need to for instance use a configuration such as that recommended for http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Running_MediaWiki_on_Sourceforge.net
If this is a public-facing wiki, you should upgrade to 1.4.12 regardless of whether it has anything to do with this problem, as there are security and data corruption issues resolved by newer releases.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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