Hi All,

I need to have one machine host two MediaWikis. To achieve this, I copied an existing wiki (called 'mediawiki3e') into the directory structure of my primary wiki (called, simply, 'mediawiki'). I did the copy as follows:

* copy SECONDWIKI/mysql/data/mediawiki to xxx/mysql/data/mediawiki3e * copy SECONDWIKI/www/mediawiki to xxx/www/mediawiki3e * change the following in xxx/www/mediawiki3e/LocalSettings.php * $wgDBname = "mediawiki3e" (to redirect the SQL database) * $wgScriptPath = "/mediawiki3e" (to redirect the web page handling)

So, I have the following directory structure:

xxx/apache2 xxx/mysql/data/mediawiki xxx/mysql/data/mediawiki3e <-- new wiki xxx/mysql/bin xxx/mysql/share xxx/php5 xxx/www/mediawiki xxx/www/mediawiki3e <-- new wiki

The first wiki is still accessible but MediaWiki can't find the 'mediawiki3e.page' table (my browser displays error message 1146, the text is given below).

Clearly, there's something I neglected to do in this process but I haven't a clue what it is. I've been all over MediaWiki.org (reading FAQs and configuration guides and such) and I've poured over the archives to this mailing list but I haven't found the answer I'm seeking.

What do I need to do to get php/mysql to see this database (or, alternatively, how do I change the name of the original mediawiki database to 'mediawiki3e')? Since I'm a bit of a mysql/php doofus, I'd really appreciate it if the explanation was at a novice level. Thanks!

I'm on Windows XP and I originally used the WOS (www.wos.chsoftware.net) package to install my Wikis.

The error message follows:

# MediaWiki internal error.

Original exception: exception 'DBQueryError' with message 'A database error has occurred Query: SELECT page_id,page_namespace,page_title,page_restrictions,page_counter,

page_is_redirect,page_is_new,page_random,page_touched,page_latest,

 page_len FROM `page` WHERE page_namespace = '0' 
 AND page_title = 'Main_Page' LIMIT 1 

Function: Article::pageData Error: 1146 Table 'mediawiki3e.page' doesn't exist (localhost) ' in C:\usr\wikiArchitecture\www\mediawiki3e\includes\Database.php:806

Thanks!

-- Wade Guthrie wguthrie@sirf.com +1-714-435-4939