[Mediawiki-l] Wiki installation/setup question

[Chuck Bishop]

Thanks for replying.

I guess my confusion is that in the INSTALL Readme file with MediaWiki
1.3.3, you are to 'Hop' into your browser and surf to the wiki
directory.  

INSTALL
...
Hop into your browser and surf into the wiki directory.
It'll direct you into the config script. Fill out the form...
remember you're probably not on an encrypted connection.
Gaaah! :)

If all goes well, you should soon be told that it's set up
your wiki database and written a configuration file. There
should now be a 'LocalSettings.php' in the config directory;
move it back up to the main wiki directory, and the wiki
should now be working.

Once the wiki is set up, you should remove the config
directory, or at least make it not world-writable (though
it will refuse to config again if the wiki is set up).
...

However, all I get in the browser menu is the message, 'Sorry, The Wiki
is experiencing some technical difficulties, and cannot contact the
database server.  I can't find any error logs.

I set the LocalSettings.php to the suggested settings in
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Documentation:Installation and I am able
to access mysql with my username and password.

The part of the documentation I 'feel' may be incorrect is where it
instructs you to run the install with install.php, but according to
INSTALL Readme, this install file is no longer used.

INSTALL
...
In 1.3.0 the old command-line installer has been removed.
...

However, on the
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Documentation:Installation page, it
instructs you run 'php4 install.php'.
...
Finish the Installation
Run the installation script: 
  php4 install.php
Now you might get a warning:
...

I apologize for my ignorance on this subject, but obviously, I'm missing
something and it's probably something very simple to fix.

Software:
MediaWiki 	Ver. 1.3.3
Mysql		Ver. 4.0.21-standard for pc-linux on i686
Apache 	Ver. 2.0.49
PHP		Ver. 4.3.4 (cgi)
Fedora Linux  Core 2

Thanks,
Chuck
(Very frustrated)

-----Original Message-----
From: mediawiki-l-bounces at Wikimedia.org
[mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces at Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Brion Vibber
Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 4:15 PM
To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Wiki installation/setup question

On Sep 20, 2004, at 12:31 PM, Chuck Bishop wrote:
> Thanks to those whom have responded to my email.  I also apologize for
> my ignorance on this issue.
>
> One of the problems I'm facing is, according to the release notes with
> the release of 1.3.0 and later, the install.php is no longer provided 
> or
> used.  However, much of the installation documentation still
references
> this file as part of the setup.  (This really confused me for a
while.)

Can you point out the particular documentation that has this problem so 
it can be corrected?

> I'm not sure if and/or where an install log is generated.

When you run the installer, it makes output something like this:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/1.3_install_success

If you've never seen anything remotely like that, maybe you haven't run 
the installer. Please read the directions in the file INSTALL.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)


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