We run four instances of MediaWiki on our website. Two of the installations have been down for months and the other two are working fine. We've generally had few problems with MediaWiki software other than the standard spam headaches.
I upgraded the software on 3 of the wikis last night with no problems. Strangely enough, the upgrade worked for one of the wikis which is down. But I can't get the wiki to display anything at all.
http://www.infoshop.org/octo/matrix/index.php
I've checked the paths in the LocalSettings.php file. They look fine. I even compared them to another LocalSettings file for a wiki that works. I just can't figure out why this wiki is displaying a mysterious Server Error page when the other wikis are working.
We upgraded to PHP 5 recently, but these two wikis went down before that.
Have people had any experiences with hackers or spammers bringing down a wiki by inserting bad data?
I'm really banging my head against the wall on this one, so any insights are appreciated.
Chuck
-------------------------- Bread and Roses Web Design serving small businesses, non-profits, artists and activists http://www.breadandrosesweb.com/
You say you've looked at your LocalSettings.php, but have you looked nearer the top - I usually forget I've changed things up there when upgrading, for example. I'm talking about ie $wgServer, $wgScriptPath and $wgArticlePath - were they set to anything before, and aren't now? When I've got 500 server errors before, it's been due to that.
On 17/07/07, Chuck chuck@mutualaid.org wrote:
We run four instances of MediaWiki on our website. Two of the installations have been down for months and the other two are working fine. We've generally had few problems with MediaWiki software other than the standard spam headaches.
I upgraded the software on 3 of the wikis last night with no problems. Strangely enough, the upgrade worked for one of the wikis which is down. But I can't get the wiki to display anything at all.
http://www.infoshop.org/octo/matrix/index.php
I've checked the paths in the LocalSettings.php file. They look fine. I even compared them to another LocalSettings file for a wiki that works. I just can't figure out why this wiki is displaying a mysterious Server Error page when the other wikis are working.
We upgraded to PHP 5 recently, but these two wikis went down before that.
Have people had any experiences with hackers or spammers bringing down a wiki by inserting bad data?
I'm really banging my head against the wall on this one, so any insights are appreciated.
Chuck
Bread and Roses Web Design serving small businesses, non-profits, artists and activists http://www.breadandrosesweb.com/
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Gary Kirk wrote:
You say you've looked at your LocalSettings.php, but have you looked nearer the top - I usually forget I've changed things up there when upgrading, for example. I'm talking about ie $wgServer, $wgScriptPath and $wgArticlePath - were they set to anything before, and aren't now? When I've got 500 server errors before, it's been due to that.
Thanks. I'll look at those lines again. In my experience, these problems are usually due to obvious errors.
Chuck
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