which I do not have done They will I know, but my hosting service is free and friendly (for the next three years). If I wanted to pay for a root server package, then I could have anything I wanted, but.... unpacking the files into MediaWiki 1.2.2: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wikipedia/mediawiki-1.2.2.tar.gz?download > The file INSTALL contains installation instructions. I previously tried to install 1.1.0. I just downloaded 1.2.2 and will try to install it sometime tomorrow. (Note to self: You really need to pay more attention to the list and news releases....) first make > sure that you have an empty database and permission to create and > alter tables in it. If you have existing tables in this database, make > sure none of the names conflict with MediaWiki's tables (check the table > definitions in maintenance/tables.sql) > Give your existing MySQL username and password to the config script, > and just leave the root password blank. When you say "root access to the database", do you mean access to the root of the server on which the database is run or access to the root of a particular database? I have access to the root of a particular database. The database is on a separate server on a different domain from my web hosting service, but I have the database host server name and database name, which I access via a database user name and password. I have accessed and used the database via PHP MySQL calls with other software packages with that information without any problems. ~ quite good. There is only > the login problem but i assume this could be made better or will be gone > after an upgrade (at least form me) but so far we are using this wiki with > success. > Here is a good dokumentation i used: > http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Documentation:Installation > Try section 5, this is what you want. > 5 Installing MediaWiki on SourceForge > I recommand that you do some installs on your localhost first to get a basic I don't have a GNU/Linux box to try this on since my hard drive crashed (thanks to my parents for use of their computer in the mean time). I'll definitely print off a copy of those pages before beginning. ~ I'll let you know how installation goes. ~ James Reed

James Reed wrote: root Brion Vibber wrote: operating I understand now. No, I do not have access to the MySQL "root" account, but my usage of my database is near absolute: I can do anything I want with it except exceed the 100MB storage limitation. Brion Vibber wrote: Done. I have several other scripts installed that use the database, but the table prefixes that they use are unique so I do not expect there to be any problems. I'll let you know how the install went after I make the time to do it. Thanks for all the help. ~ James Reed

On Mar 31, 2004, at 08:20, Calum Galleitch wrote: Actually I've got a Debian Woody setup tucked away precisely for checking that Debian's _really old_ shipped versions of things don't explode too horribly. :) The main remaining failure on Debian is that texvc can't be compiled with the version of ocaml they ship. I don't know squat about ocaml so don't have a clue how to fix it... -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)