Hello everybody! I have just set up wiki at greenpowered.org to help people teach each other about making the transition to clean energy. It is a wonderful engine and I thank everyone who contributed to it and for making it available.
I have a couple problems I can't figure out though. Possibly it is something with the server not mediawiki, but any info is appriciated.
The first is that every once in a while when a link is clicked, I get prompted to save the file: index.php I believe. If you click cancel and click it again it always works. It happens rarely. If you open the file it prompts you to save, it is in binary, with only a couple lines of data.
The second problem only started happening recently. What happens is if a new page is created, then you go back to the page where you created it, the link does not turn blue. If you click it the edit page comes up, and the text is in the editbox. The strange thing is hitting refresh won't help. The only way for the link to turn blue is to delete all the pages out of the IE browser cache, and re-access it. I thought it happened when I upgraded from 1.4.0 to 1.4.4. However, i went back to 1.4.0 and it was still there. Now I'm on 1.4.5, and still have the problem. The way I switched versions was just to replace all the files.
Erik (greenpowered admin)
On 6/10/05, GreenPowered wrote:
... The first is that every once in a while when a link is clicked, I get prompted to save the file: index.php I believe. If you click cancel and click it again it always works. It happens rarely. If you open the file it prompts you to save, it is in binary, with only a couple lines of data.
See http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1109 . If you have any new information, please add it there.
The second problem only started happening recently. What happens is if a new page is created, then you go back to the page where you created it, the link does not turn blue. If you click it the edit page comes up, and the text is in the editbox. The strange thing is hitting refresh won't help. The only way for the link to turn blue is to delete all the pages out of the IE browser cache, and re-access it. I thought it happened when I upgraded from 1.4.0 to 1.4.4. However, i went back to 1.4.0 and it was still there. Now I'm on 1.4.5, and still have the problem. The way I switched versions was just to replace all the files. ...
Hopefully someone else has seen this problem before and can help. More details about tweaked configurations, browser, server and any proxies may help.
-- Zigger
Thank you. I have found a way to resolve the second problem. Turning on Disable page caching in Misc settings in Preferences seems to be fixing it. However this is sort of a workaround, because on wikipedia (and on my site recently) turning that option on isn't needed. Any further info would be appriciated. Also this brings up another question, how would I make the preference option to be set as the default.
Erik (greenpowered admin)
On 6/9/05, Zigger zigger@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/10/05, GreenPowered wrote:
... The first is that every once in a while when a link is clicked, I get prompted to save the file: index.php I believe. If you click cancel and click it again it always works. It happens rarely. If you open the file it prompts you to save, it is in binary, with only a couple lines of data.
See http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1109 . If you have any new information, please add it there.
The second problem only started happening recently. What happens is if a new page is created, then you go back to the page where you created it, the link does not turn blue. If you click it the edit page comes up, and the text is in the editbox. The strange thing is hitting refresh won't help. The only way for the link to turn blue is to delete all the pages out of the IE browser cache, and re-access it. I thought it happened when I upgraded from 1.4.0 to 1.4.4. However, i went back to 1.4.0 and it was still there. Now I'm on 1.4.5, and still have the problem. The way I switched versions was just to replace all the files. ...
Hopefully someone else has seen this problem before and can help. More details about tweaked configurations, browser, server and any proxies may help.
-- Zigger
One possible cause of the caching problem is if the server clock is running too far behind or the browser computer clock is too far forward.
Defaults for user-preference settings can be done by modifying LocalSettings.php before the last line. Add this line
$wgDefaultUserOptions['nocache'] = 1;
before the last line "?>". This is not needed if you find and fix the underlying problem.
-- Zigger
On 6/10/05, GreenPowered wrote:
Thank you. I have found a way to resolve the second problem. Turning on Disable page caching in Misc settings in Preferences seems to be fixing it. However this is sort of a workaround, because on wikipedia (and on my site recently) turning that option on isn't needed. Any further info would be appriciated. Also this brings up another question, how would I make the preference option to be set as the default.
Erik (greenpowered admin) ... On 6/9/05, Zigger zigger@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/10/05, GreenPowered wrote:
... The first is that every once in a while when a link is clicked, I get prompted to save the file: index.php I believe. If you click cancel and click it again it always works. It happens rarely. If you open the file it prompts you to save, it is in binary, with only a couple lines of data.
See http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1109 . If you have any new information, please add it there.
The second problem only started happening recently. What happens is if a new page is created, then you go back to the page where you created it, the link does not turn blue. If you click it the edit page comes up, and the text is in the editbox. The strange thing is hitting refresh won't help. The only way for the link to turn blue is to delete all the pages out of the IE browser cache, and re-access it. I thought it happened when I upgraded from 1.4.0 to 1.4.4. However, i went back to 1.4.0 and it was still there. Now I'm on 1.4.5, and still have the problem. The way I switched versions was just to replace all the files.
... Hopefully someone else has seen this problem before and can help. More details about tweaked configurations, browser, server and any proxies may help.
-- Zigger
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On 6/12/05, Zigger wrote:
One possible cause of the caching problem is if the server clock is running too far behind or the browser computer clock is too far forward.
Defaults for user-preference settings can be done by modifying LocalSettings.php before the last line. Add this line
$wgDefaultUserOptions['nocache'] = 1;
To make the setting compulsory, use this instead:
$wgCachePages = false;
before the last line "?>". This is not needed if you find and fix the underlying problem. ...
-- Zigger
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