I'm having trouble deleting some images that were uploaded to my MediaWiki-powered website.
In these cases, there's only one version of the image available. In the listing, I see the appropriate link for (del) and (cur) -- without a link -- appears right after it.
However, when I try to click the (del) link, I'm given a message that says "bad title". Is this a bug in the software? Or am I going about deleting images the wrong way. Some help would be appreciated.
Here's the location of one of the images I'm trying to delete: http://memoryalpha.st-minutiae.com/wiki/Image:Enterprise_Starships.jpg
Thanks, Dan Carlson
I want to set up a Wiki using WikiMedia on a virtual server. I have available a BSD server, a Linux server and a Windows server.
I would guess that it would work best on the system you are using on Wikipedia, although this might be debatable to some extent.
So, what is the server type you are using, (versions of OS and PHP, etc.) and is that the best overall platform?
My wiki will be www.codewiki.com and org, for source code in a Wiki format. Thanks!
-Kelly
On Jan 29, 2004, at 16:24, Kelly Anderson wrote:
I want to set up a Wiki using WikiMedia on a virtual server. I have available a BSD server, a Linux server and a Windows server.
I would guess that it would work best on the system you are using on Wikipedia, although this might be debatable to some extent.
So, what is the server type you are using, (versions of OS and PHP, etc.) and is that the best overall platform?
Our live servers all run Red Hat Linux 9 (except the database server, an Opteron box which came with SuSE 8.something preinstalled). My test box at home runs FreeBSD 5.2.
Windows can be made to work, but it's not extensively tested and probably some portions won't work right.
For the web server, we use Apache 1.3.29 (with a patch to fix & characters in rewritten URLs; you'll find this in the maintenance/ subdirectory of the MediaWiki distribution). Apache 2.0.x may have occasional oddities but should work (it's what I test with at home).
For the database, use the current MySQL 4.0 release (4.0.17). The 3.2.x releases should work (if you set $wgEnablePersistentLC = false; in LocalSettings.php) but will not perform as well, particularly on a large database.
PHP 4.3.4 is recommended, installed as an Apache module (either static or as a DSO should be fine). 4.1.x and 4.2.x may work. 4.0.x will not work. It's highly recommended to include zlib support; see the INSTALL file in the MediaWiki distribution for some sample configure switches and be sure to set register_globals = On in your php.ini.
A PHP opcode cache is recommended if you have any significant load; try one of these: http://turck-mmcache.sourceforge.net/ (open source) http://www.php-accelerator.co.uk/ (proprietary non-commercial)
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
"KA" == Kelly Anderson kelly@acoin.com writes:
KA> I have available a BSD server, a Linux server and a Windows KA> server.
The pilot announces that the plane is going down, and that there are only two parachutes, one of which he's taking. So the Windows server says to the BSD server, ... B-)
~ESP
P.S. I think Wikimedia sites all run on Linux, and there's some recommended PHP and MySQL versions in the INSTALL file.
On Jan 29, 2004, at 09:18, Dan Carlson wrote:
I'm having trouble deleting some images that were uploaded to my MediaWiki-powered website.
In these cases, there's only one version of the image available. In the listing, I see the appropriate link for (del) and (cur) -- without a link -- appears right after it.
However, when I try to click the (del) link, I'm given a message that says "bad title". Is this a bug in the software? Or am I going about deleting images the wrong way. Some help would be appreciated.
This was fixed in the November 18, 2003 release, and it should work fine in the 1.1.0 release currently available at wikipedia.sourceforge.net/
(Mental note: add a user-visible release version indicator.)
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
On Jan 30, 2004, at 3:12 AM, Brion Vibber wrote:
However, when I try to click the (del) link, I'm given a message that says "bad title". Is this a bug in the software? Or am I going about deleting images the wrong way. Some help would be appreciated.
This was fixed in the November 18, 2003 release, and it should work fine in the 1.1.0 release currently available at wikipedia.sourceforge.net/
Ah, okay.
In that case, is there any place I can be referred to for upgrading a MediaWiki installation without access to the command line? I'm running on a shared (virtual) hosting account.
Thanks again, Dan Carlson
On Jan 30, 2004, at 07:04, Dan Carlson wrote:
In that case, is there any place I can be referred to for upgrading a MediaWiki installation without access to the command line? I'm running on a shared (virtual) hosting account.
Check the RELEASE-NOTES file to see if it mentions any SQL patches that need to be run for manual update, then copy in the updated *.php and .phtml files.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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