[Mediawiki-l] Re: Install categorylinks SQL error

Kate Turner keturner at livejournal.com
Tue Aug 2 09:01:49 UTC 2005


"John R. Owens" wrote:
> MySQL 4.1.13
...
> failed with error code "Specified key was too long; max key length is
> 1000 bytes".

> The only thing that comes to mind that I did differently when redoing
> the MySQL database was that I told it to use UTF8 as the default
> character set & collation

don't do this.  there are issues with MySQL 4.1 and UTF-8 support in
MediaWiki.
MW does not require that MySQL use UTF-8, and doing so can cause
problems.

> Also, while I'm at it, from what I understand, PHP eAccelerator is
> supposed to be the successor to Turck MMCache, but it doesn't seem to be
> detected and considered equivalent. Is this typical, or did I perhaps
> not install eAccelerator right, too?

it's the same, but they changed the function names.  i think 1.5 will
detect
it correctly.

kate.




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