[Mediawiki-l] Installing mediawiki beta on win

[Brion Vibber]

On Jan 11, 2005, at 4:00 AM, Peter Van Dijck wrote:
> Peter Van Dijck wrote:
>> For testing, I am trying to install MediaWiki 1.4beta4 on Win XP, 
>> using Apache.
>
> The entire output of the install script:
[snip]
> # Installation directory: c:\documents and settings\peter\my 
> documents\websites\testsystems\mediawiki-1.3.9\mysecondwiki
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Can you confirm you have all the right files in place?

> # There are already MediaWiki tables in this database. Checking if 
> updates are needed...

Is this an upgrade? From which version originally?

> Converting links table to ID-ID...
> Sorry! The wiki is experiencing some technical difficulties, and 
> cannot contact the database server.

Does your database user have all necessary permissions? Did you create 
it manually or is it preexisting? Did you give a db root password or 
are you using only a local user account?

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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