As the title say, I just installed mediawiki 1.21.2 on a remotely hosted VPS server. I got everything set up using the putty software, and the remote server is a Debian 'squeeze' system, where I do have 'root' level access & can install what ever i need. First rattle out of the bag the mediawiki fired up in my browser and asked for me to complete the installation, as I expected. However when I clicked on the link to 'complete the installation' nothing happened. I tried a chown -R to www-data for the entire wiki, but that made no difference. a test of php5 shows all OK as well as does the apache server it's running on. This is my first ever attempt to manage a wiki remotely, so any tips are appreciated. I just don't have a clue why this did'nt work. Thanks John _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Aas I said, nothing happened. Th screen stayed exactly the same. I looked at the page source & it was OK, the instructions in the link were good, it said to go to the correct page and open the index.php file in /mw-config withing the mediawiki directory, just nothing happened. No error messages, nada. Any ideas. I figure it is a permission thing but have no idea how to fix it. take a look,the link to the page is http://www.physicswiki.net If it works for you, message me back please don't try to finish the setup. On Fri, 2013-10-11 at 11:07 +0100, Alex Monk wrote: > Nothing happened? Did your browser not change pages? Did you get a blank > screen? > > > On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 5:18 AM, John W. Foster <jfoster81747(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote: > > > As the title say, I just installed mediawiki 1.21.2 on a remotely hosted > > VPS server. I got everything set up using the putty software, and the > > remote server is a Debian 'squeeze' system, where I do have 'root' level > > access & can install what ever i need. First rattle out of the bag the > > mediawiki fired up in my browser and asked for me to complete the > > installation, as I expected. However when I clicked on the link to > > 'complete the installation' nothing happened. I tried a chown -R to > > www-data for the entire wiki, but that made no difference. a test of > > php5 shows all OK as well as does the apache server it's running on. > > This is my first ever attempt to manage a wiki remotely, so any tips are > > appreciated. I just don't have a clue why this did'nt work. > > Thanks > > John

Where is your localsettings.php file? MediaWiki 1.21.2 LocalSettings.php not found. -----Original Message----- From: John Foster <jfoster81747(a)verizon.net> To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Sent: Fri, Oct 11, 2013 9:38 am Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Mediawiki on a remote host questions Well as I said this is wierd. I tried opening the web site with the actual IP address and it all seems to work as far as the mediawiki starting the configuration process. Strange huh, Now I have the Godaddy DNS server set up to forward the name www.physicswiki.net to the IP address mentioned, with masking, and that seems to work OK, but there is still a glitch, likely caused by my ignorance of how to set this all up. Again, any tips or suggestions. john On Fri, 2013-10-11 at 10:01 -0500, John Foster wrote: _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Do you have any vhost's setup for apache. That is important especially if you have multiple sites on the server. On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 11:12 PM, John Foster <jfoster81747(a)verizon.net>wrote;wrote: