[Mediawiki-l] MediaWiki Installation question

S. Morgan Friedman morgan at westegg.com
Wed Jun 29 18:07:03 UTC 2005


Hi Everyone -

I just installed the Mediawiki on my (Debian) server. The installation & configuration went perfectly, without a hitch. But, upon completion, when I went to the main page, I saw this error:

	Security Alert! The PHP CGI cannot be accessed directly.

	This PHP CGI binary was compiled with force-cgi-redirect enabled. This means that a page will only be served up if the 	REDIRECT_STATUS CGI variable is set, e.g. via an Apache Action directive.

	For more information as to why this behaviour exists, see the manual page for CGI security.

	For more information about changing this behaviour or re-enabling this webserver, consult the installation file that came with this 	distribution, or visit the manual page.

I know little about PHP (but lots about some other languages!) and I'm not quite sure how do go about fixing this. A Google search wasn't useful and I wasn't able to find a search function on the mailing list archive so I can see if someone has asked this before.

What do you recommend I do?

Thank you so much for your help!!!!

-morgan




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