Anyone experienced this problem?
My MW182 installation throws a "500 internal server error". Some of the special pages work fine, but none of the regular content pages are displayed. The Main_Page shows up with navigation elements but no content. Following any m-wiki links results in 500 error pages.
To test the server configuration I made a fresh MW install with a new database (w other namespace), and it seems that that empty MW is working fine. That should mean that the problem that creates the 500 messages are in the database not in the php code. I can access all the tables from PhpMyAdmin, so its probably an inconsistency in the database tables that cause the problem.
Is it possible to repair the MW database tables without doing harm to the data?
-- Harald Groven University of Tromsø
link to broken wiki (when mod_rewrite is turned off) http://www.groven.no/mediawiki182/index.php?title=Main_Page
link to broken wiki (when mod_rewrite is on) http://www.groven.no/harald
Harald, I had the same exact problem before. I believe it has something to do with pages that have been "edited" (special pages can't be edited, and the main page was probably the default). After pulling out my hair for a 2-3 weeks, I installed MW 1.7.1. In order to keep your current stuff, backup your database, and make sure you remember all the settings you used when you first installed MW.
If your server doesn't have a MySQL backup utility, you can do it directly in PhpMyAdmin. On the left choose "Export", select your database in the list, check the box to save it to file, then click Go or Proceed (can't remember its caption). Save that file. You might also consider downloading all the files from your wiki folder to your local computer, especially if you've modified the code of any of them. Then delete all files in the wiki folder. Restore the MySQL database (unless you somehow were able to keep it intact) and start over with 1.7.1. Hopefully your server will be as understanding as mine was! Good luck.
Taylor
On 12/3/06, Harald Groven harald@groven.no wrote:
Anyone experienced this problem?
My MW182 installation throws a "500 internal server error". Some of the special pages work fine, but none of the regular content pages are displayed. The Main_Page shows up with navigation elements but no content. Following any m-wiki links results in 500 error pages.
To test the server configuration I made a fresh MW install with a new database (w other namespace), and it seems that that empty MW is working fine. That should mean that the problem that creates the 500 messages are in the database not in the php code. I can access all the tables from PhpMyAdmin, so its probably an inconsistency in the database tables that cause the problem.
Is it possible to repair the MW database tables without doing harm to the data?
-- Harald Groven University of Tromsø
link to broken wiki (when mod_rewrite is turned off) http://www.groven.no/mediawiki182/index.php?title=Main_Page
link to broken wiki (when mod_rewrite is on) http://www.groven.no/harald _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
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