Wikitech-l February 2004

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uploading non-recommended file formats broken
by David Friedland 01 Feb '04

01 Feb '04

When I try to upload a .pdf or .gif via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Upload I get: Upload warning ".pdf" is not a recommended image file format. But no form to submit anyway appears. Thus I cannot upload the files. Is this a bug, the intended behavior, or a misconfiguration? - David [[User:Nohat]]

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setup problem....
by William Dossett 01 Feb '04

01 Feb '04

Hi, I read the INSTALL and did it all and setup seemed to go perfectly and the main page comes up... however... When I try to do edit this page, I get: br> Warning: stat failed for /home/justin/justin.com/htdocs/wiki/upload/lock_yBgMBwiR (errno=2 - No such file or directory) in /home/justin/justin.com/htdocs/wiki/GlobalFunctions.php on line 161 Warning: stat failed for /home/justin/justin.com/htdocs/wiki/upload/lock_yBgMBwiR (errno=2 - No such file or directory) in /home/justin/justin.com/htdocs/wiki/GlobalFunctions.php on line 161 and some more failurel lines but these are the first two. /home/justin/justin.com/htdocs/wiki/upload/lock_yBgMBwiR doesn't exist. /home/justin/justin.com/htdocs/wiki/upload is world writeable and I'm no php expert but have looked at line 161 in the mentioned file and I'm sure there is nothing wrong with it. I am using mediawiki-1.1.0 apache-1.3.23-142 php 4.1.0 SuSE Linux 8.0 Any ideas, I don't even know much about wiki, I'm setting it up for someone else to use, just a dumb sysadmin here trying to finish all my task for one day, can anybody please help? Thanks Bill

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mailing list
by Anthere 01 Feb '04

01 Feb '04

Seriously, could someone remove me for real of the administrator of the english list ? Does anyone have a clue ? Who should I contact ?

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PHP acceleration
by Brion Vibber 01 Feb '04

01 Feb '04

When PHP scripts are loaded they're compiled to bytecode, then the bytecode is executed. Stock versions of PHP just throw away the bytecode when they're done, so scripts are recompiled every time they're loaded -- ie, a million times a day or so. :P Any sensible PHP-based site uses a cache plugin of some sort; the PHP folks themselves sell a proprietary product that does this, Zend Optimizer, but there are alternatives. Once upon a time we used APC, the Alternative PHP Cache, on Wikipedia's servers. It's open source, but at least at the time it had a lot of problems with not updating or getting stuck on old versions of scripts, and wasn't as fast as some of the alternatives. At some point we switched to PHP-Accelerator, which is noncommercial but not open-source. It was faster and not as troublesome, but still occasionally did get stuck; particularly when class definitions changed it would become very confused. Also not being an open source component was a ding to our FOSS pride. Another alternative is Turck MMCache. It's open source and claims performance as good or better than the competition. A couple people have tried it out and confirmed it works with MediaWiki... Since pliny has had a fresh operating system install with its new hard drive, I've gone ahead and put MMCache on it instead of installing PHPA. So far so good, we'll see how it goes. (Pliny is now serving en.wikipedia.org.) Info: http://turck-mmcache.sourceforge.net/ -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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Wikitech-l February 2004