[Mediawiki-l] pear problem while trying to install

[Lex Thoonen]

Hi,

Installing mediawiki went fine up to the point where it said:

"then follow this link to your wiki"

clicking on it (after having moved the config file) produces:

[pear_error: message="failed to open stream: Permission denied" code=0 mode=return level=notice prefix="" info=""]

I've seen it's listed as a bug before and reported on this list, but
not with the way of solving it.

John Ingleby suggested:
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The solution is to alter the file PHPTAL-NP-0.7.0/libs/PHPTAL.php
and replace the line:

define('PHPTAL_DEFAULT_CACHE_DIR', '/tmp/'); 

to point to a new /tmp directory I made within the wiki's file
tree.

At  first it didn't work, until I remembered to make my local /tmp
directory writeable...
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Well, 'my' line looked different, but I changed it anyway, looks now
like this:

//    define('PHPTAL_DEFAULT_CACHE_DIR', getenv("TMP") . "\\");
      define('PHPTAL_DEFAULT_CACHE_DIR', "/htdocs/content/tmp/");

I chmodded that directory 777

But still I get the same message...

I tried to give the full path name:

    define('PHPTAL_DEFAULT_CACHE_DIR', "/dnshome/gran-canaria-info.com/htdocs/content/tmp/");

but that doesn't work neither (I know nothing of php)

Marko Faas once wrote, after having reported the same problem:
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Now it works. All I did was to comment out the $wgDefaultSkin =
'monobook'; in LocalSettings.php. I found it odd that it was commented
in the first place.

Maybe the default skin should be commented?

That and I put some texts here, were it wasn't before:
$wgRightsText = "HERE";
But I doubt that was the reason.
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That doesn't work neither.

What am I to do?

Thanks a lot for your time (spent on reading this).

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Lex Thoonen
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