When I try to install MediaWiki on my Debian Server i always get the error:
# PHP 4.3.7: ok # PHP server API is apache; ok, using pretty URLs (index.php/Page_Title) # Have XML / Latin1-UTF-8 conversion support. # PHP's memory_limit is 20M. If this is too low, installation may fail! # Have zlib support; enabling output compression. # Found GD graphics library built-in, image thumbnailing will be enabled if you enable uploads. # Installation directory: /home/www/web2/html # Script URI path: Warning: $wgProxyKey is insecure Can't find a writable temp directory for the XHTML template. Check that the TMP environment variable points to a writable directory, or that the default temp dir (/tmp) exists and is writable.
/tmp exists and has the rights 777 (read/write/execute for all).
I already read through several threads not being able to figure out where _my_ problem is ... probably you can help me getting MediaWiki to work ...
thanks for help
Thomas Uhde
On Oct 22, 2004, at 2:01 PM, root@wiki.v565.vanager.de wrote:
When I try to install MediaWiki on my Debian Server i always get the error:
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Can't find a writable temp directory for the XHTML template. Check that the TMP environment variable points to a writable directory, or that the default temp dir (/tmp) exists and is writable.
Do you have safe mode or open_basedir options enabled on PHP?
Also, try making the 'images' subdirectory writable, it will try to fall back to that if /tmp is not available.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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