I have set up a small MediaWiki site some months ago. I wanted to change the appearance of tables, and did the following:
From the english Wikipedia, I opened the page with the common style sheet (MediaWiki:Common.css), copied the content and pasted it into the corresponding page in "my" MediaWiki installation. However, after some minutes the entire site suddenly became completely inaccessible!
Of course, I suspect the change of Common.css. But I might certainly have done other unintended changes. My questions:
1) Any proposals on how I can get access to the wiki again?
2) If not, are there any way I can "undo" the changes to Common.css when I have no access to the Wiki? (The wiki is installed on a webhotel (http://www.one.com). I have no shell access, but access via FTP and an administration panel for MySql.
Hoping for an answer...
Best Regards Tor Vidvei
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I have DynamicPageList (third-party) installed, and it works perfectly as long as I use the parser extension (<dpl>) and not the parser function ({{#dpl:}}).
When I use the parser function method I simply get code displayed as if I had entered normal text. For example, when I enter this: {{#dpl: |category = Mission Walkthroughs }}
I see this: {{#dpl: |category = Mission Walkthroughs }}
Also, under Special:Version, dpl does show up as a parser function hook.
So basically, is there a variable in LocalSettings.php that I need to adjust, or has anyone else had this issue?
I created an page with examples to better show the issue I'm having.
http://www.burningsea.com/wiki/index.php/Sandbox
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I have DynamicPageList (third-party) installed, and it works perfectly as long as I use the parser extension (<dpl>) and not the parser function ({{#dpl:}}).
When I use the parser function method I simply get code displayed as if I had entered normal text. For example, when I enter this: {{#dpl: |category = Mission Walkthroughs }}
I see this: {{#dpl: |category = Mission Walkthroughs }}
Also, under Special:Version, dpl does show up as a parser function hook.
So basically, is there a variable in LocalSettings.php that I need to adjust, or has anyone else had this issue?
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Vidvei, Tor wrote:
I have set up a small MediaWiki site some months ago. I wanted to change the appearance of tables, and did the following: From the english Wikipedia, I opened the page with the common style sheet (MediaWiki:Common.css), copied the content and pasted it into the corresponding page in "my" MediaWiki installation. However, after some minutes the entire site suddenly became completely inaccessible! Of course, I suspect the change of Common.css. But I might certainly have done other unintended changes. My questions:
Any proposals on how I can get access to the wiki again?If not, are there any way I can "undo" the changes to Common.css when I have no access to the Wiki? (The wiki is installed on a webhotel (http://www.one.com). I have no shell access, but access via FTP and an administration panel for MySql.Hoping for an answer...
Best Regards Tor Vidvei
What do you mean by inaccessible? A bad CSS change couldn't for instance produce a blank page. It can eg. make you lose the styles, but nothing too dramatic. The easiest way to undo your change is to disable CSS in your browser and revert that page. The wiki will look "funny" without CSS but is completely usable.
Inaccessible means blank pages. While trying to access the wiki in FireFox, I get a blank page - not even an error message. In IE8 I receive the message " The website cannot display the page". Hence, I can't undo the changes I did to MediaWiki:commmon.css either. This combined with your answer make me believe that the error is something else than the common.css. After spending some hours on it yesterday, I decided to order a full backup of the wiki database and revert to the state of the day before. (No serious losses except from the time spent on this issues...)
Thanks a lot for your answer!
Tor
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Vidvei, Tor wrote:
I have set up a small MediaWiki site some months ago. I wanted to change the appearance of tables, and did the following: From the english Wikipedia, I opened the page with the common style sheet (MediaWiki:Common.css), copied the content and pasted it into the corresponding page in "my" MediaWiki installation. However, after some minutes the entire site suddenly became completely inaccessible! Of course, I suspect the change of Common.css. But I might certainly have done other unintended changes. My questions:
Any proposals on how I can get access to the wiki again?If not, are there any way I can "undo" the changes to Common.css when I have no access to the Wiki? (The wiki is installed on a webhotel (http://www.one.com). I have no shell access, but access via FTP and an administration panel for MySql.Hoping for an answer...
Best Regards Tor Vidvei
What do you mean by inaccessible? A bad CSS change couldn't for instance produce a blank page. It can eg. make you lose the styles, but nothing too dramatic. The easiest way to undo your change is to disable CSS in your browser and revert that page. The wiki will look "funny" without CSS but is completely usable.
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