On Mon Oct 11 22:47:49 2004, brion wrote: On Oct 11, 2004, at 3:31 PM, udi wrote:
Firstly we get a blank page upon attempting to configure the wiki using index.php.
Can you configure PHP to record an error log? There may be a fatal error which is suppressed by output buffering oddities.
See http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=736
We therefore tried to manually configure the LocalSettings,php and AdminSettings.php files, but we received the following report:
Warning: main(/mediawiki/PHPTAL-NP-0.7.0/libs/PHPTAL.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in c:\easyphp\www\mediawiki\includes\SkinPHPTal.php on line 32
Sounds like you did not set $IP to the correct path. It should be: $IP = "C:\easyphp\www\mediawiki"; *not* $IP = "/mediawiki";
-- Zigger
hey all, Another q: Are there any guidelines to getting my wiki indexed by search engines? Any settings that need to be explicitely changed?
Thanks, Taneem Talukdar http://www.dheo.com/
On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 03:07:21 +1000, Zigger zigger@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon Oct 11 22:47:49 2004, brion wrote: On Oct 11, 2004, at 3:31 PM, udi wrote:
Firstly we get a blank page upon attempting to configure the wiki using index.php.
Can you configure PHP to record an error log? There may be a fatal error which is suppressed by output buffering oddities.
See http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=736
We therefore tried to manually configure the LocalSettings,php and AdminSettings.php files, but we received the following report:
Warning: main(/mediawiki/PHPTAL-NP-0.7.0/libs/PHPTAL.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in c:\easyphp\www\mediawiki\includes\SkinPHPTal.php on line 32
Sounds like you did not set $IP to the correct path. It should be: $IP = "C:\easyphp\www\mediawiki"; *not* $IP = "/mediawiki";
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On Thursday 21 October 2004 20:53, Taneem A T wrote:
Are there any guidelines to getting my wiki indexed by search engines?
http://www.google.com/addurl.html
Thanks for the link but I am well aware of the submission policies of search engines. I was asking if there was anything that had to be done to the wiki technically. Like, with phpNuke for example, there are some rewrite settings that help in getting things indexed.
The wiki I am running has been up for a few weeks but has had a lot of activity, yet does not show up on google, even though all other parts of our site is listed.
thanks,
Taneem Talukdar http://www.dheo.com/
On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 03:24:30 +0300, NSK nsk2@wikinerds.org wrote:
On Thursday 21 October 2004 20:53, Taneem A T wrote:
Are there any guidelines to getting my wiki indexed by search engines?
http://www.google.com/addurl.html
-- NSK Admin of http://portal.wikinerds.org Project Manager of http://www.nerdypc.org Project Manager of http://www.adapedia.org Project Manager of http://maatworks.wikinerds.org
So you're asking whether there is any way to get MediaWiki to generate HTML meta tags (with appropriate content parameters). I don't know the answer, it just seemed to me that that's your question (right?). I'm just saying.
On 22 Oct 2004, at 04:08, Taneem A T wrote:
Thanks for the link but I am well aware of the submission policies of search engines. I was asking if there was anything that had to be done to the wiki technically. Like, with phpNuke for example, there are some rewrite settings that help in getting things indexed.
The wiki I am running has been up for a few weeks but has had a lot of activity, yet does not show up on google, even though all other parts of our site is listed.
thanks,
Taneem Talukdar http://www.dheo.com/
On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 03:24:30 +0300, NSK nsk2@wikinerds.org wrote:
On Thursday 21 October 2004 20:53, Taneem A T wrote:
Are there any guidelines to getting my wiki indexed by search engines?
http://www.google.com/addurl.html
-- NSK Admin of http://portal.wikinerds.org Project Manager of http://www.nerdypc.org Project Manager of http://www.adapedia.org Project Manager of http://maatworks.wikinerds.org
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On Fri, 2004-22-10 at 05:19 +0200, Jens Ropers wrote:
So you're asking whether there is any way to get MediaWiki to generate HTML meta tags (with appropriate content parameters). I don't know the answer, it just seemed to me that that's your question (right?). I'm just saying.
It might be worth noting that many pages in MediaWiki sites are have special meta tags that tell robots not to index the page nor to follow links in the page. I think it's mostly dynamic pages that don't really make sense to index. If this were happening for article pages, though, it'd be a bug.
It might be worth checking if the pages that aren't working have some weird <meta> tags.
~ESP
Thanks for the feedback guys - I don't know a whole lot about the topic, but perhaps because the content on the wiki is stored in the database and there no static html pages, so unless you get the wiki to recognize search bots and serve content nothing will get indexed? Wikipedia and other wikis show up on google all the time. Maybe I just need to give my wiki a bit more time :)
Taneem Talukdar http://www.dheo.com/
On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 23:38:13 -0400, Evan Prodromou evan@wikitravel.org wrote:
On Fri, 2004-22-10 at 05:19 +0200, Jens Ropers wrote:
So you're asking whether there is any way to get MediaWiki to generate HTML meta tags (with appropriate content parameters). I don't know the answer, it just seemed to me that that's your question (right?). I'm just saying.
It might be worth noting that many pages in MediaWiki sites are have special meta tags that tell robots not to index the page nor to follow links in the page. I think it's mostly dynamic pages that don't really make sense to index. If this were happening for article pages, though, it'd be a bug.
It might be worth checking if the pages that aren't working have some weird <meta> tags.
~ESP
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Taneem A T thezeropoint@gmail.com writes:
Thanks for the feedback guys - I don't know a whole lot about the topic, but perhaps because the content on the wiki is stored in the database and there no static html pages, so unless you get the wiki to recognize search bots and serve content nothing will get indexed?
Use your web browser to view source and look for the META tags close to the top. Go take a look at http://www.robotstxt.org/
Am Thu, 21 Oct 2004 20:08:47 -0600 hat Taneem A T thezeropoint@gmail.com geschrieben:
Thanks for the link but I am well aware of the submission policies of search engines. I was asking if there was anything that had to be done to the wiki technically. Like, with phpNuke for example, there are some rewrite settings that help in getting things indexed.
The wiki I am running has been up for a few weeks but has had a lot of activity, yet does not show up on google, even though all other parts of our site is listed.
OH, getting indexed may take as long as 3 months. But when tey finally index you won't be able to get rid of them anymore either :-)
You need to make shure that as many sites as possible, other search engines too of course, got a link to your wiki. The more you have the sooner google will find you anyway. Whether you like it or not :-)
--tic
thanks,
Taneem Talukdar http://www.dheo.com/
On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 03:24:30 +0300, NSK nsk2@wikinerds.org wrote:
On Thursday 21 October 2004 20:53, Taneem A T wrote:
Are there any guidelines to getting my wiki indexed by search engines?
http://www.google.com/addurl.html
-- NSK Admin of http://portal.wikinerds.org Project Manager of http://www.nerdypc.org Project Manager of http://www.adapedia.org Project Manager of http://maatworks.wikinerds.org
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On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 11:53:38 -0600, Taneem A T thezeropoint@gmail.com wrote:
hey all, Another q: Are there any guidelines to getting my wiki indexed by search engines? Any settings that need to be explicitely changed?
Technically speaking, I don't think so. Unless your host has a robots.txt file that denies robots to index anything, you should be ok.
Wikimedia is indexed quite well by google. I don't think they've moded the software too much (correct me if I'm wrong). but like everyone else said. Check your robots.txt file, check your meta tags, and make sure some engines get you. (I here that the best way to get on Google is to get on other engine's lists.)
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On Oct 23, 2004, at 1:09 PM, Jamie Bliss wrote:
Technically speaking, I don't think so. Unless your host has a robots.txt file that denies robots to index anything, you should be ok.
Anecdote: in early 2003 much of Wikipedia dropped off of Google for about a month due to a missing "/" in our robots.txt file. Make sure you're not accidentally blocking access to the wiki.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
I've an upgrade probleme from 1.2.6
Notice: Undefined index: REQUEST_URI in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\doc\includes\Setup.php on line 92 A database query syntax error has occurred. This could be because of an illegal search query (see $5), or it may indicate a bug in the software. The last attempted database query was:
SELECT user_name,user_password,user_newpassword,user_email,user_real_name,user_opti ons,user_rights,user_touched FROM user WHERE user_id=2
from within function "User::loadFromDatabase". MySQL returned error "1054: Unknown column 'user_real_name' in 'field list'".
And xxxx/config say ok everything is right :-(
Do you have any idea
Regards
On Oct 22, 2004, at 1:08 AM, Eric JESOVER wrote:
I've an upgrade probleme from 1.2.6 Notice: Undefined index: REQUEST_URI in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\doc\includes\Setup.php on line 92
Are you running on IIS? Occasionally it doesn't do things the way Apache does, apparently it doesn't set that variable. It's a debug statement anyway, just put a '#' at the beginning to comment it out or just remove it.
A database query syntax error has occurred. This could be because of an illegal search query (see $5), or it may indicate a bug in the software. The last attempted database query was:
SELECT user_name,user_password,user_newpassword,user_email,user_real_name,user _opti ons,user_rights,user_touched FROM user WHERE user_id=2
from within function "User::loadFromDatabase". MySQL returned error "1054: Unknown column 'user_real_name' in 'field list'".
And xxxx/config say ok everything is right :-(
I tried installing a fresh 1.2.6 wiki and upgrading it to 1.3.7, and can't reproduce the problem. (PHP 4.3.8, MySQL 4.0.20, running with Apache on Mac OS X.) The user table was updated to include the user_real_name field, so it ought to be ok.
If somehow that and that alone has been skipped over, you might try manually upgrading the table; take the query from maintenance/archive/patch-user-realname.sql and feed it into MySQL:
-- Add a 'real name' field where users can specify the name they want -- used for author attribution or other places that real names matter.
ALTER TABLE user ADD (user_real_name varchar(255) binary NOT NULL default '');
The output from config/index.php during the upgrade looked like this:
MediaWiki 1.3.7 installation
Please include all of the lines below when reporting installation problems.
Checking environment...
• PHP 4.3.8: ok • Warning: PHP's register_globals option is enabled. MediaWiki will work correctly, but this setting increases your exposure to potential security vulnerabilities in PHP-based software running on your server. You should disable it if you are able. • PHP server API is apache; ok, using pretty URLs (index.php/Page_Title) • Have XML / Latin1-UTF-8 conversion support. • PHP's memory_limit is 8M. If this is too low, installation may fail! Attempting to raise limit to 20M... ok. • Have zlib support; enabling output compression. • Found GD graphics library built-in, image thumbnailing will be enabled if you enable uploads. • Installation directory: /Users/brion/Sites/mediawiki-1.3.7 • Script URI path: /~brion/mediawiki-1.3.7 • Connected as root (automatic) • Connected to database... 4.0.20-standard; enabling MySQL 4 enhancements • Database testyfun exists • There are already MediaWiki tables in this database. Checking if updates are needed... ...ipblocks is up to date. ...already have interwiki table ...indexes seem up to 20031107 standards ...have linkscc table. ...linkscc is up to date, or does not exist. Good. ...have hitcounter table. Adding rc_ip...ok Converting links table to ID-ID... Updating schema (no rows to convert)... Dropping temporary links table if it exists... done. Creating temporary links table... done.
Dropping backup links table if it exists... done. Swapping tables 'links' to 'links_backup'; 'links_temp' to 'links'... done.
Conversion complete. The old table remains at links_backup; delete at your leisure. Adding user_real_name field to table user...ok Adding querycache table for slow special pages... ok Adding objectcache table for message caching... ok Adding categorylinks table for category management... ok Creating redirects Gnunote...redirected All_messages...redirected
Moving pages... Gnunote...moved All_messages...moved
Converting text... Initialising "MediaWiki" namespace... Clearing message cache...Done.
• Finished update checks.
Creating LocalSettings.php...
Success! Move the LocalSettings.php file into the parent directory, then follow this link to your wiki.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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