I just tried to do a clean install on a new server and got the following error: Quote: MediaWiki 1.5.2 installation Please include all of the lines below when reporting installation problems. Checking environment... PHP 5.0.5: 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 apache2handler; ok, using pretty URLs (index.php/Page_Title) Have XML / Latin1-UTF-8 conversion support. PHP's memory_limit is 128M. If this is too low, installation may fail! Have zlib support; enabling output compression. Neither Turck MMCache nor eAccelerator are installed, can't use object caching functions Found GNU diff3: /usr/bin/diff3. Found GD graphics library built-in, image thumbnailing will be enabled if you enable uploads. Installation directory: /home/data/www/willem/mediawiki Script URI path: /willem/mediawiki Trying to connect to MySQL on localhost as root... MySQL error 1045: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO) Trying regular user... ok. Connected to 4.1.14; enabling MySQL 4 enhancements Database wikitest exists Creating tables... using MySQL 3/4 table defs...Query "CREATE TABLE categorylinks ( cl_from int(8) unsigned NOT NULL default '0', cl_to varchar(255) binary NOT NULL default '', cl_sortkey varchar(86) binary NOT NULL default '', cl_timestamp timestamp NOT NULL, UNIQUE KEY cl_from(cl_from,cl_to), KEY cl_sortkey(cl_to,cl_sortkey), KEY cl_timestamp(cl_to,cl_timestamp) ) TYPE=InnoDB" failed with error code "Specified key was too long; max key length is 1000 bytes". any idea what is wrong ? Regards, _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l