[Mediawiki-l] Trouble setting up Mediawiki

[Gene]

Rik Serpentier wrote:

>Hi,
>
>As complete newbie to MediaWiki I have some trouble setting up the
>software on a Apple PB G4, OS X 10.3.6, php 4.3.4 and MySQL 4.1.7
>  
>

>%>< snip
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>*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...
>  
>

It appears that the output above is not from the initial install
attempt. The problem appears to be the convesion above in an existing
database. I sort of wonder why it would  want to convert a table in a
fresh database.
You might want to try an install using a different name for the data
base, say perhaps, wikidb2. This will cause the install script to create
an all new data base. If that succeeds, then it's a pretty definite
indication that the problem is the existing data base. You can just drop
the first data base and use the new one, or drop both and re-install. In
the event that doesn't work, immediately save the output from the new
install for posting. It would be much more informative to see what an
original install produces.

By the way, I'm using MySQL version 4.0.17 on a unix machine.

Good Luck,

Gene