That's because you're going through your webserver, which is configured not to allow direct access to that folder (which is correct). You need to load a terminal/command prompt and run the php file from there

Hi Thomas, .. and how to install that kind of terminal on my **personnal** PC running Windows XP + WAMP ? I believed it was'nt any right pb with any php program running at home with XP. .. Any idea about the way to deal with that for me ? n00b I am, n00b I'll die too ;O)) PS : for my distant wiki, the hoster just answer me that's no solution for me because I'am hosted through a "mutualised" server (that does not allow any ssh) and not a private server, @+

----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Dalton" thomas.dalton@gmail.com To: "Dr JFBurté" burtejf@orange.fr Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 8:21 PM Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Noob's question about the weight of the data caused by a lot of revisons

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Hi thanks Thomas .. but one strong problem happens when I try on my local PC when I type : "http://localhost/archive.mw1.11-briey/maintenance/deleteOldRevisions.php" I get a great and strange message (I'm naturally the owner of localhost ;O) "You don't have permission to access /archive.mw1.11-briey/maintenance/deleteOldRevisions.php on this server."

That's because you're going through your webserver, which is configured not to allow direct access to that folder (which is correct). You need to load a terminal/command prompt and run the php file from there (just go to the folder and type "php deleteOldRevisions.php").

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