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Tomás Dias Almeida

26 Jan 2006 26 Jan '06

5:06 p.m.

I installed mediawiki 1.5.6 and 1.4.14. In the both wikis I had the same problem: When a logged member edit and save a page, He gets the following error message, "Note: Remember that this is only a preview, and has not yet been saved!". But a anonymous users can edit and save the pages normally. Thanks Tomás Almeida

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Brion Vibber

26 Jan 26 Jan

8 p.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] Users permission to edit pages

Tomás Dias Almeida wrote:

I installed mediawiki 1.5.6 and 1.4.14. In the both wikis I had the same problem: When a logged member edit and save a page, He gets the following error message, "Note: Remember that this is only a preview, and has not yet been saved!". But a anonymous users can edit and save the pages normally.

PHP's session storage is broken. Probably one of the following is true: 1) You are running on a Windows server, and php.ini has the default setting of "/tmp" for the session storage path, a directory which does not usually exist on Windows. 2) You are running on SourceForge.net's server farm or a similar setup where php.ini has the default setting of "/tmp" fo rthe session storage path, a local directory which is different for each server that a user hits. Fix php.ini or see the FAQ entries on SourceForge. -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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Rick DeNatale

8:21 p.m.

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On 1/26/06, Brion Vibber <brion(a)pobox.com> wrote:

Tomás Dias Almeida wrote:

I installed mediawiki 1.5.6 and 1.4.14. In the both wikis I had the same problem: When a logged member edit and save a page, He gets the following error message, "Note: Remember that this is only a preview, and has not yet been saved!". But a anonymous users can edit and save the pages normally.

PHP's session storage is broken. Probably one of the following is true: 1) You are running on a Windows server, and php.ini has the default setting of "/tmp" for the session storage path, a directory which does not usually exist on Windows. 2) You are running on SourceForge.net's server farm or a similar setup where php.ini has the default setting of "/tmp" fo rthe session storage path, a local directory which is different for each server that a user hits.

Interestingly, I just had a similar problem. My long-running wiki suddenly stopped letting me save changes as a logged in user. This was on a debian (actually Ubuntu) system. After a little bit of poking around, I determined that the php session save path was /var/lib/php4 and that this directory didn't seem to exist. I looked at my backups and found out that it disappeard during the week when I had upgraded the server from Ubuntu 5.04 to 5.10. I recreated the directory and everything started working again. -- Rick DeNatale Visit the Project Mercury Wiki Site http://www.mercuryspacecraft.com/

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Rowan Collins

8:40 p.m.

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On 26/01/06, Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale(a)gmail.com> wrote:

This was on a debian (actually Ubuntu) system. After a little bit of poking around, I determined that the php session save path was /var/lib/php4 and that this directory didn't seem to exist. I looked at my backups and found out that it disappeard during the week when I had upgraded the server from Ubuntu 5.04 to 5.10.

It might be worth filing a bug report with Ubuntu for that, if you can be bothered: clearly the packaging was broken if the PHP config referred to a path that wasn't going to exist. Unless you'd changed the php settings and said no to overwriting with an updated maintainer's version? -- Rowan Collins BSc [IMSoP]

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Rick DeNatale

11:13 p.m.

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On 1/26/06, Rowan Collins <rowan.collins(a)gmail.com> wrote:

On 26/01/06, Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale(a)gmail.com> wrote:

This was on a debian (actually Ubuntu) system. After a little bit of poking around, I determined that the php session save path was /var/lib/php4 and that this directory didn't seem to exist. I looked at my backups and found out that it disappeard during the week when I had upgraded the server from Ubuntu 5.04 to 5.10.

It might be worth filing a bug report with Ubuntu for that, if you can be bothered: clearly the packaging was broken if the PHP config referred to a path that wasn't going to exist. Unless you'd changed the php settings and said no to overwriting with an updated maintainer's version?

I brought it up on the ubuntu forums. I figured I'd first inquire whether anyone else had seen it. Actually, I suspect that it was caused by a glitch in my upgrade and therefore not reproducible. I had a conflict on the system which caused the apt-get --distupgrade to stop before all of the packages were updated, and had to re-issue the command. It wouldn't have been a case of not overwriting an updated config file, since it's not under /etc and therefore by debian rules NOT a config file. In any event php wasn't one of the config files which changed. I probably will create a bug report though. Now what I'd really love is for someone with the knowledge to debianize mediawiki and get Ubuntu to take it up as supported software! -- Rick DeNatale Visit the Project Mercury Wiki Site http://www.mercuryspacecraft.com/

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Rowan Collins

11:30 p.m.

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On 26/01/06, Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Now what I'd really love is for someone with the knowledge to debianize mediawiki and get Ubuntu to take it up as supported software!

http://packages.debian.org/unstable/web/mediawiki http://packages.ubuntu.com/breezy/web/mediawiki :D Now to get it Ubuntu *supported*... -- Rowan Collins BSc [IMSoP]

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Rick DeNatale

11:57 p.m.

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On 1/26/06, Rowan Collins <rowan.collins(a)gmail.com> wrote:

http://packages.debian.org/unstable/web/mediawiki http://packages.ubuntu.com/breezy/web/mediawiki

Kewl! It's still 1.4 I see. Any plans to package 1.5? -- Rick DeNatale Visit the Project Mercury Wiki Site http://www.mercuryspacecraft.com/

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Rowan Collins

27 Jan 27 Jan

12:05 a.m.

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On 26/01/06, Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale(a)gmail.com> wrote:

It's still 1.4 I see. Any plans to package 1.5?

Don't look at me, look at... erm... http://packages.qa.debian.org/m/mediawiki.html -- Rowan Collins BSc [IMSoP]

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Phil Boswell

12:43 p.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] Re: Users permission to edit pages

"Rowan Collins" <rowan.collins(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:9f02ca4c0601261605j32b3bc6w@mail.gmail.com...

On 26/01/06, Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale(a)gmail.com> wrote: > It's still 1.4 I see. Any plans to package 1.5?

Don't look at me, look at... erm... http://packages.qa.debian.org/m/mediawiki.html

That page has an email address for the "Mediawiki Maintenance Team": shouldn't someone drop them a line and let them know they're...how many versions behind now? -- Phil [[en:User:Phil Boswell]]

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Rowan Collins

1:11 p.m.

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On 27/01/06, Phil Boswell <phil.boswell(a)gmail.com> wrote:

That page has an email address for the "Mediawiki Maintenance Team": shouldn't someone drop them a line and let them know they're...how many versions behind now?

Well, they at least seem to be tracking the latest 1.4 releases: 1.4.14 just got accepted into 'testing'. I'm sure people would be pleased to have up-to-date features, as well as security, though; ah, see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=336241 -- Rowan Collins BSc [IMSoP]

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Graeme Worthy

6:03 p.m.

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Just a note on Ubuntu and the Forums thereof: The forums and the Mailinglist are very different creatures indeed, and are populated by different segments of the Ubuntu user/ developerbase. The forums are mostly user-on-user discussions, which are barely touched by the developers. So, if you're looking for explanations or to file bugs in Ubuntu, the forums are hardly the place for it. On 26-Jan-06, at 3:13 PM, Rick DeNatale wrote:

On 1/26/06, Rowan Collins <rowan.collins(a)gmail.com> wrote:

On 26/01/06, Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale(a)gmail.com> wrote:

This was on a debian (actually Ubuntu) system. After a little bit of poking around, I determined that the php session save path was /var/lib/php4 and that this directory didn't seem to exist. I looked at my backups and found out that it disappeard during the week when I had upgraded the server from Ubuntu 5.04 to 5.10.

It might be worth filing a bug report with Ubuntu for that, if you can be bothered: clearly the packaging was broken if the PHP config referred to a path that wasn't going to exist. Unless you'd changed the php settings and said no to overwriting with an updated maintainer's version?

I brought it up on the ubuntu forums. I figured I'd first inquire whether anyone else had seen it. Actually, I suspect that it was caused by a glitch in my upgrade and therefore not reproducible. I had a conflict on the system which caused the apt-get --distupgrade to stop before all of the packages were updated, and had to re-issue the command. It wouldn't have been a case of not overwriting an updated config file, since it's not under /etc and therefore by debian rules NOT a config file. In any event php wasn't one of the config files which changed. I probably will create a bug report though. Now what I'd really love is for someone with the knowledge to debianize mediawiki and get Ubuntu to take it up as supported software! -- Rick DeNatale Visit the Project Mercury Wiki Site http://www.mercuryspacecraft.com/ _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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Tomás Dias Almeida

11:55 a.m.

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My server is running OpenBSD 3.8 and apache 1.3, I saw the php.ini and did some tests, I tested: session.save_path = /var/www/htdocs/tmp/ session.save_path = /tmp/ but in the both cases, the problem continues. Any idea??? Thanks! Tomás On 1/26/06, Brion Vibber <brion(a)pobox.com> wrote:

Tomás Dias Almeida wrote:

I installed mediawiki 1.5.6 and 1.4.14. In the both wikis I had the same problem: When a logged member edit and save a page, He gets the following error message, "Note: Remember that this is only a preview, and has not yet been saved!". But a anonymous users can edit and save the pages normally.

PHP's session storage is broken. Probably one of the following is true: 1) You are running on a Windows server, and php.ini has the default setting of "/tmp" for the session storage path, a directory which does not usually exist on Windows. 2) You are running on SourceForge.net's server farm or a similar setup where php.ini has the default setting of "/tmp" fo rthe session storage path, a local directory which is different for each server that a user hits. Fix php.ini or see the FAQ entries on SourceForge. -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com) _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

-- Tomás Dias Almeida Eng. de Compt. UNICAMP 2003

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Brion Vibber
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