I'd love to test/try it now since it's soon to be released, but, I'd really hate to put all my trust into it, and it'd turn out to be like last time.. 12 FRESH installs, straight out of the box, only to get multiple redirecting loops..

Part of email I sent a few good weeks ago, and that subdomain isn't up any more..

"By the way, after the downloading, and doing a *fresh* install of the trunk/phase3, then going to index page, it's spitting out redirecting loops.. this url is what got below sigh :( spencerp.net/index.php/Index.php/Index.php/Index.php/Index.php/Index.php/Index.php/Index.php/Index.php/Index.php/Index.php/Index.php/Index.php/Index.php/Index.php/Index.php/Index.php/Index.php/Index.php/Index.php/Index.php"

And being that NO ONE really replied to me on this issue, or said anything about this issue.. I just don't have any clue of what to except ...

Ah, the downfalls of a list of people here to help, but don't anyway.. Well, they do, they just picky on who they want to talk too.. Oops..

Either way, I'm learning her myself though.. Besides being busy working with WordPress 2.1, theme customizing, and the bbPress forum software.. I might get some more time into learning it..

By the way, here's my notes on what I had done.. I hope it helps others! http://www.mwusers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3348 http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/486?replies=9

-- spencerp http://spencerp.net

[Brion Wrote Before> Well, I'd certainly recommend trying 1.9 then; it should work more consistently and/or provide better error messages for this case.~~~]

YES!! I just upgraded to the Latest - 1.10alpha copy.. I know, I know, haha.. but, figured out how to do the line command now, on over-writing the files in the codex's root directory. I did make a database backup first though, saved the extension to computer, same goes for original LocalSettings.php file, and some others in which I did core file edits..

At first though, for some odd reason.. I couldn't get the "php update.php" command line to work on "maintenance/", gave me a message saying, it couldn't work because of running php 4.X.X, but if you're sure php5 is running, check the path to it, or whatever.. But, I AM running the MediaWiki on PHP 5.1.2 though.. so.. not sure what's up with that. I'm on Dreamhost.com by the way..

(I'm not sure on the AdminSettings.php file deal, I put in there my user and pass that's actually for the Database user and pass.. and it's different of course, to my Administrator account for the Codex itself..) Do I have to manually create that user's table first, or something.. ?

Anyway, I chmodded the config/ folder 777, renamed my LocalSettings.php file to LocalSettings.php.old.. and went through normal browser install stuff, it upgraded the database like supposed too..

Then saved the NEWLY made LocalSettings.php file as LocalSettings.php.newest, and then moved it to root/ of the codex.. however, I'm using the original one instead..Re-chmodded the config/ 644

I didn't try the BBPress_Auth extension yet, but will here soon. I want to make sure that's still going to work with it, which I'm sure it will..

All that customized work is and was saved.. I went around here and there on the Codex.. and haven't recieved any errors.. so, to me looks like she's working great! Awesome!! Thanks for your time .. ;) :)

-- spencerp http://spencerp.net

[Rob wrote> If running the bleeding-edge of MediaWiki, you MUST be prepared to keep updating the files to follow any fixes that are applied to it. If someone adds a feature and a security vulnerability, and we notice and fix the latter before it's release time, we won't generally issue another release, since it's in the unstable branch.~~]

Yep, will do. However, that was a mistake on my part, I didn't use the right svn co url.. =( I forgot to use the one Brion posted a few emails back sigh. Dang.. Well, I'll keep updating as needed though.. ;) :)

[Rob wrote> The version of PHP running at the command line (the CLI) is often different to that running in a web browser; these goddamn stupid modern shared hosts. You can often find the real path to the PHP 5 CLI and use that, otherwise, use the "re-run the installer" or "phpShell" methods mentioned in the upgrade pages on the MediaWiki site.~~~]

Hahaha, yeah.. stupid hosts. >_< Oh well, I'll just use the "web installer method" then.. ;) :) If for some reason I feel "daring" and what not, I'll find the real path to the PHP 5 CLI then.. ;) :)

[Rob wrote> There's another, recent thread on this mailing list where I explained the whole "AdminSettings.php file deal" in great length, but the gist of it is that AdminSettings.php is for providing the credentials of a MySQL user with permission to perform maintenance operations on the database.~~~]

Oh okay, I think I remember your's coming through the list, but it was deleted though sigh. I'll go back through the archives then, but, I probably won't worry about this too much, though. I still have TONS of other things going on sigh.. But, I'll find your post then. ;) :)

[Rob Wrote> Ack! *Never* rename the LocalSettings.php file such that it no longer ends in ".php" - stuff like ".old" etc. will cause Apache to serve it as a plain text file, which will expose database connection information.

When renaming, stick to a scheme such as LocalSettings.old.php" and "LocalSettings.new.php" - different files, safer extensions.~~]

Slaps self, Okay.. I'll remember that for later. :) ;) I'm not sure if this makes a difference though, but I manually chmodded those files 644, and folders 755.. Well, always do, for everything except images.. ;) :) But, anyway.. I'll remember that next time. ;)

[Rob wrote> Generally, one of the benefits of going down the Subversion route for upgrades is that Subversion itself handles merging of file changes, so local hacks are easier to preserve. Extensions, when well authored (ahem) are completely pluggable and provided you're sensible about keeping the extension up to date, won't fsck up MediaWiki when it's time to go to the next point release.~~]

You have a good point there.. ;) :) Well, like I said above, I'll check that extension out then, and see if it's all good yet. If it's not. I'll let the author know of it. ;) :) Thanks so much Rob for your tips, suggestions, comments, and what not.. ;) :)

By the way, the Extension's URL for whoever wants to read up on it: http://codex.wordpress.org/User:RobLa/bbPress_Auth_for_MediaWiki http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/wiki-tech/2005-August/000028.html

-- spencerp http://spencerp.net

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Jan wrote:

Dear Brion,

I installed updated from 1.9-branch:

Great! The blank-page-issue has been solved. Nice work :-)

Now I only get an error-message above the wiki; but I will try out this tomorrorw ... install fresh and deactivate extensions (now: need sleep ;).

FYI, the error: Warning: is_file() [function.is-file]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/lock_yBgMBwiR) is not within the allowed path(s): (...mypath.../subdomains/mwbeta/httpdocs:/tmp) in ...mypath.../subdomains/mwbeta/httpdocs/includes/GlobalFunctions.php on line 256

Fixed: http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki?view=rev&revision=19012

- -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)