On Mar 8, 2004, at 14:33, Nicolas Weeger wrote:
Wanting to play with Wikipedia on my own comp, i tried
to install
MediaWiki 1.1.0. Using MediaWiki 1.1.0 (stable), Windows 2000,
Apache2, php 4.3.4 (latest), MySQL 4.0.18 (latest).
I'd highly recommend trying MediaWiki 1.2.0rc3 instead. I've tested it
briefly on Windows (WinXP, Apache 2.0.48, PHP 4.3.4, and a MySQL 4 on
one of my Unix boxes), and it seems to work... :)
I followed the instructions from INSTALL document. But
there's a
mistake there: if you reply 'no' to database overwrite, the software
doesn't correctly install / configure some stuff.
I'm using fr: locale, so i set that as language. After install,
characters were a real mess, accents wrongs & such.
So finally, I just trashed everything, did a fresh php install, then
restored database from dump (i restored it prior to mediawiki install
the previous attempt). This time it worked.
Or maybe that's just a mistake from me at some point, but i think i
trashed everything, then installed, replying 'no' to overwrite, and
still some issues...
The command-line installer is HORRIBLE. 1.2.0rc3 now includes a
web-based install/update script which may be friendlier.
Note however that both installers may get confused if you only have a
partial database, such as if you imported just a 'cur' table into an
otherwise blank database. The correct way to do this is to install
MediaWiki into a blank database, *then* import the dumped tables (which
will delete and overwrite the tables initially created by the
installer).
Also, MediaWiki apparently requires php to be an
apache module, using
getallheaders function. Which isn't specified in the install document
^_-
(ok, implicitely with the --with-apache= directive on the ./configure
line for php... not intuitive for poor Windows users :))
As a side note, i get a warning in 'recent changes' saying Windows
can't handle dates before 1970, January 1st, 00:00. Only seems to
appear when no change to show, though, so not that a big deal :)
Yes, iirc these are both resolved in 1.2.0rc3.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)