[Mediawiki-l] thumb pages with error messages (only with Netscape 7.1)

[Markus Klaus Schäffauer]

Hi Brion,
thank you for answering.
 

>> MediaWiki 1.3.3 is giving strange error-messages on pages with 
>> thumbs,  but only when I use the browser Netscape 7.1 and not with IE 
>> 6.0 or  Firefox 0.9.
>> The error messages are the following:
>
>
> Those messages have to do with your PHP configuration and shouldn't 
> be  affected by which browser you use. It's possible that there's a 
> caching  issue that causes Netscape to see different versions of the 
> page, or  the error messages might be hidden or displayed differently 
> (check  'view source'). 

I can observe the difference between Netscape 7.1 and Firefox 0.9 even 
in the source code. So I think you are right, it might be a caching 
issue of Netscape 7.1, because there is nothing wrong in the other browsers.

>>    Warning: shell_exec,popen,escapeshellcmd,proc_open,proc_nice() has
>>    been disabled for security reasons in
>>    /www/htdocs/wiki/includes/Image.php on line 179
>
>
> Well, that's going to make it pretty hard to shell out to ImageMagick.
>
> If you're unwilling or unable to change that, try using the GD 
> library  support instead (switch the settings in LocalSettings.php). 
> This of  course will only work if GD support is available in your PHP  
> configuration. 

I allready disabled ImageMagick this afternoon, but may be the error 
messages are still present (in Netscape) due to the caching issue you 
mentioned.

>    Warning: stat() [function.stat <http://www.php.net/function.stat>]:
>
>>    Stat failed for
>>    /www/htdocs/v101777/wiki/images/thumb/5/57/180px-Kvdr-image02.jpg
>>    (errno=2 - No such file or directory) in
>>    /www/htdocs/wiki/includes/Image.php on line 246
>
> It's also kind of odd that there are different path names here. Is 
> this  a deliberate configuration you've set up, or something weird? 

I am sorry, this is my fault: I wanted to erase the directory name and 
forgot this one ;-)

The thumbs are working well (with GD library support), so I hope the 
error messages will dissapear once the cache is reloaded.

Thank you!
Markus