Receiving a 404 error upon loading - MediaWiki-l

John

28 Sep 28 Sep

5:11 p.m.

did you extract mediawiki to the correct location? On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Andrew Jablonski <andrew.daniel.jablonski(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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Hi, I have a GoDaddy hosted linux server where MediaWiki was installed. Whenever we go to our website however, we receive a 404 error message: The requested URL /wiki/index.php was not found on this server. Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. I'm confused as to what the problem could be. When I FTP into the server and go into the wiki folder, the index.php file is present. All the necessary components (php, MySQL, etc) are all installed. I have looked at the localsettings.php file and everything appears to be correct. My interpretation is that for some reason, upon initializing the script cannot locate the index.php file. I have been parsing through various php files but nothing looks out of place to me (although I could be wrong as I am new to this). Any help would be tremendously appreciated, -Andrew _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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Dave Humphrey

5:32 p.m.

A few quick things you can check: - Check your real and virtual paths. Most wikis seem to use the real path "/w/" and have a redirect of "/wiki/" to "/w/index.php?title=" for nice URLs. - Ensure that your path /wiki/ is readable/executable by Apache. Easiest way to check if you have ssh/root access is to sudo as the Apache user. - Similarly ensure that index.php and the rest of the Wiki path/files are readable by Apache. - Ensure your Apache/web server is correctly setup. Try access static files (images, CSS, etc...) from within the wiki path and make sure they are accessible. - If you've modified your Apache/web server configuration make sure to restart it. On 28 September 2012 09:58, Andrew Jablonski <andrew.daniel.jablonski(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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Hi, I have a GoDaddy hosted linux server where MediaWiki was installed. Whenever we go to our website however, we receive a 404 error message: The requested URL /wiki/index.php was not found on this server. Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. I'm confused as to what the problem could be. When I FTP into the server and go into the wiki folder, the index.php file is present. All the necessary components (php, MySQL, etc) are all installed. I have looked at the localsettings.php file and everything appears to be correct. My interpretation is that for some reason, upon initializing the script cannot locate the index.php file. I have been parsing through various php files but nothing looks out of place to me (although I could be wrong as I am new to this). Any help would be tremendously appreciated, -Andrew _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

-- Dave Humphrey -- dave(a)uesp.net Founder/Server Admin of the Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages -- www.uesp.net

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Andrew Jablonski

7:12 p.m.

Problem fixed! I just set $wgScriptPath = "" and everything is loading perfectly. Thanks so much for all the help! On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Dave Humphrey <dave(a)uesp.net> wrote:

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A few quick things you can check: - Check your real and virtual paths. Most wikis seem to use the real path "/w/" and have a redirect of "/wiki/" to "/w/index.php?title=" for nice URLs. - Ensure that your path /wiki/ is readable/executable by Apache. Easiest way to check if you have ssh/root access is to sudo as the Apache user. - Similarly ensure that index.php and the rest of the Wiki path/files are readable by Apache. - Ensure your Apache/web server is correctly setup. Try access static files (images, CSS, etc...) from within the wiki path and make sure they are accessible. - If you've modified your Apache/web server configuration make sure to restart it. On 28 September 2012 09:58, Andrew Jablonski <andrew.daniel.jablonski(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Hi, I have a GoDaddy hosted linux server where MediaWiki was installed. Whenever we go to our website however, we receive a 404 error message: The requested URL /wiki/index.php was not found on this server. Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use

an

ErrorDocument to handle the request. I'm confused as to what the problem could be. When I FTP into the server and go into the wiki folder, the index.php file is present. All the necessary components (php, MySQL, etc) are all installed. I have looked

at

the localsettings.php file and everything appears to be correct. My interpretation is that for some reason, upon initializing the script cannot locate the index.php file. I have been parsing through various php files but nothing looks out of place to me (although I could be wrong as

I

am new to this). Any help would be tremendously appreciated, -Andrew _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

-- Dave Humphrey -- dave(a)uesp.net Founder/Server Admin of the Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages -- www.uesp.net _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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