[Mediawiki-l] Trouble setting up Mediawiki

[Jamie Bliss]

Does the user MediaWiki is user have permission to modify other users'
permissions? If it doesn't, that's what may have caused it. (Also
check to make sure the connection wasn't dropped.)

On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 11:34:40 +0100, Rik Serpentier
<rik.serpentier at vmw.be> wrote:
> Gene,
> 
> Thanks for the tip, but...
> 
> I dropped the existing wikidb, and ran setup again. In Safari I got the
> same "bad server response"-error. I dropped the created database again,
> and ran setup once again but with Internet Explorer for Mac and this
> resulted in :
> >MediaWiki 1.3.8 installation
> >
> >Please include all of the lines below when reporting installation
> >problems.
> >
> >Checking environment...
> >
> >*      PHP 4.3.4: 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.
> >*      Found GD graphics library built-in, image thumbnailing will be enabled
> >if you enable uploads.
> >*      Installation directory: /Users/admin/Sites/mediawiki
> >*      Script URI path: /~admin/mediawiki
> >*      Connected as root (automatic)
> >*      Connected to database... 4.1.7-debug; enabling MySQL 4 enhancements
> >*      Created database wikidb2
> >*      Creating tables... done.
> >*      Initializing data...
> >*      Granting user permissions...
> >Sorry! The wiki is experiencing some technical difficulties, and cannot
> >contact the database server.
> 
> Thanks again for your support
> 
> 
> 
> With kind regards,
> 
> Rik Serpentier
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