Thanks for replying.

I guess my confusion is that in the INSTALL Readme file with MediaWiki 1.3.3, you are to 'Hop' into your browser and surf to the wiki directory.

INSTALL ... Hop into your browser and surf into the wiki directory. It'll direct you into the config script. Fill out the form... remember you're probably not on an encrypted connection. Gaaah! :)

If all goes well, you should soon be told that it's set up your wiki database and written a configuration file. There should now be a 'LocalSettings.php' in the config directory; move it back up to the main wiki directory, and the wiki should now be working.

Once the wiki is set up, you should remove the config directory, or at least make it not world-writable (though it will refuse to config again if the wiki is set up). ...

However, all I get in the browser menu is the message, 'Sorry, The Wiki is experiencing some technical difficulties, and cannot contact the database server. I can't find any error logs.

I set the LocalSettings.php to the suggested settings in http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Documentation:Installation and I am able to access mysql with my username and password.

The part of the documentation I 'feel' may be incorrect is where it instructs you to run the install with install.php, but according to INSTALL Readme, this install file is no longer used.

INSTALL ... In 1.3.0 the old command-line installer has been removed. ...

However, on the http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Documentation:Installation page, it instructs you run 'php4 install.php'. ... Finish the Installation Run the installation script: php4 install.php Now you might get a warning: ...

I apologize for my ignorance on this subject, but obviously, I'm missing something and it's probably something very simple to fix.

Software: MediaWiki Ver. 1.3.3 Mysql Ver. 4.0.21-standard for pc-linux on i686 Apache Ver. 2.0.49 PHP Ver. 4.3.4 (cgi) Fedora Linux Core 2

Thanks, Chuck (Very frustrated)

-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Brion Vibber Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 4:15 PM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Wiki installation/setup question

On Sep 20, 2004, at 12:31 PM, Chuck Bishop wrote:

Thanks to those whom have responded to my email. I also apologize for my ignorance on this issue.

One of the problems I'm facing is, according to the release notes with the release of 1.3.0 and later, the install.php is no longer provided or used. However, much of the installation documentation still

references

this file as part of the setup. (This really confused me for a

while.)

Can you point out the particular documentation that has this problem so it can be corrected?

I'm not sure if and/or where an install log is generated.

When you run the installer, it makes output something like this: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/1.3_install_success

If you've never seen anything remotely like that, maybe you haven't run the installer. Please read the directions in the file INSTALL.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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