[Mediawiki-l] MediaWiki 1.3.0beta2 minor install issues

[Laurent GUERBY]

Hi, wrong list for my first try, I hope this is now the right list :).

-----Forwarded Message-----
> From: Laurent GUERBY <laurent at guerby.net>
> To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l at Wikipedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.3.0beta2 released
> Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2004 19:30:13 +0200
> 
> 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.
> >>
> 
> 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
> >>