Hi, I'm not sure if this list is the preferred channel to report installation problem, if not please tell me what is the preferred channel :). My machine is running SuSE 9.1 professional, no preexisting wiki database, Apache/2.0.49, PHP 4.3.4, MySQL 4.0.18.

In config/index.php I had to comment the zlib setup line otherwise the install would just hang after printing "Script URI path: /wiki":

## Compress output if the browser supports it #{$zlib}if( !ini_get( 'zlib.output_compression' ) ) ob_start( 'ob_gzhandler' );

http://se.php.net/manual/en/function.ob-start.php says some thinsg about ob_start and Apache 2:

<< jkloss at hotmail dot com 17-Mar-2004 01:20 If ob_start does not seem to be working for you, note that with Apache 2 the flush() function causes PHP to send headers regardless of whether ob_start had been called before flush.

ob_start(); echo 'test'; flush();

will cause Apache 2 to send whatever headers may be stacked up - which means you can't use a header(location:xxx) after the flush. To fix, remove the flush(). Spent several hours discovering this. Apache 1.x didn't work this way.

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But I'm no PHP expert so I'm not sure it's relevant and what to do.

Even with this I got an error a bit later see below. May be I need to change some PHP settings, from phpinfo it looks like I have "memory_limit 8M", I tried 80M and the install worked. What value should we recommend here?

BTW, wikipedia.org seems down right now, it would be nice to include a recent english version of "Editing Help" with the mediawiki release tarball. I'm using the google cached version right now :).

Thank you in advance,

Laurent

<< MediaWiki 1.3.0beta2 installation Please include all of the lines below when reporting installation problems.

Checking environment... PHP 4.3.4 ok PHP server API is apache2handler; ok, using pretty URLs (index.php/Page_Title) Have zlib support; enabling output compression. Found GD graphics library built-in, image thumbnailing will be enabled if you enable uploads. Installation directory: /srv/www/htdocs/wiki Script URI path: /wiki Connected as root (automatic) Connected to database... 4.0.18; enabling MySQL 4 enhancements Created database wikidb Creating tables... done. Initializing data... Created sysop account WikiSysop. Initialising log pages... Initialising "MediaWiki" namespace... Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 751891 bytes) in /srv/www/htdocs/wiki/includes/Parser.php on line 755 Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 0 bytes) in Unknown on line 0

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