I've running MediaWiki on Linux with no problems, with multiple trouble-free installations, and am doing my first installation on Mac OS X.
I have Mac OSX 10.3.2 and am running MySQL 4.1. I already ran into the problem of having to set the root password the "old way" on MySQL, which allowed me to connect to the database server (the Mediawiki user guide was good on this point). However, it's now failing on this (see below, note tables were created by previous attempt). I was wondering if someone intimately familiar with the installation script could give a suggestion about how to proceed.
Also the line states wikidb exists. In fact, when I check using the command line client, the wikidb does not in fact exist.
Any suggestions from the experts? I'm at a loss.
Thanks,
Matthew Trump
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PHP 4.3.2: ok
PHP server API is apache; ok, using pretty URLs (index.php/Page_Title)
Have XML / Latin1-UTF-8 conversion support.
PHP is configured with no memory_limit.
Have zlib support; enabling output compression.
Couldn't find GD library or ImageMagick; image thumbnailing disabled.
Installation directory: /Users/trump/vhosts/multnomah.decumanus.com/htdocs/mediawiki-1.3.7
Script URI path: /mediawiki
Connected as root (automatic)
Connected to database... 4.1.7-standard; enabling MySQL 4 enhancements
Database wikidb exists
There are already MediaWiki tables in this database. Checking if updates are needed...
...ipblocks is up to date. ...already have interwiki table ...indexes seem up to 20031107 standards ...have linkscc table. ...linkscc is up to date, or does not exist. Good. ...have hitcounter table. Converting links table to ID-ID... Sorry! The wiki is experiencing some technical difficulties, and cannot contact the database server.