[Mediawiki-l] the hosting company broke my wiki (login / uploading and saving changes)

[Rick DeNatale]

On 11/3/05, Darren Kruse <darren.kruse at gmail.com> wrote:
> I had a perfectly functioning wiki, happily making edits and uploading
> stuff. All was good.
> http://law.flindersclubs.asn.au/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
>
> Then *something* happened at the hosting company that has broken my wiki. :-(
>
> 1. To login, I now need to tick "Remember my password across
> sessions.", otherwise it reverts to my IP address
>
> 2. When uploading, I get the red msg ; "Upload error. The file you
> uploaded seems to be empty. This might be due to a typo in the file
> name."
>
> 3. When I do make a change, and save changes, it's as if I hit the
> preview button. The changes are *not* saved.
>
> So essentially I'm stuck with a wiki stuck in time. A stiki-wiki
>
> I'm running :
>     MediaWiki (http://wikipedia.sf.net/): 1.4.9
>     PHP (http://www.php.net/): 4.3.10 (cgi)   (zipped output of php -i attached)
>     MySQL (http://www.mysql.com/): 4.0.18-Max
>
> I get valid cookies for :
> PHPSESSID - expires at end of sesssion
> Token, UserID and UserName - all expire in one month
>
> The hosting company won't talk to me directly, and the intemediary is
> not really helpful.
> I do have SSH access, but with quite limited, non-root access.
>
> My only clue is that this page
> http://law.flindersclubs.asn.au/wiki/index.php?title=Photos
>
> shows an incomplete thumbnail. The photos were all uploaded - these
> uploads looks like the last thing that was done to the wiki just
> before it broke.
>
> So, I don't know if we hit a diskspace limit (I've been advised that
> it's been increased anyway), and if that broke something, or if this
> is co-incidence, and some underlying PHP, or Apache thing has changed
> that has broken the wiki.
>
> Any ideas gratefully received,
> cheers,
> darren.
>
>
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I've got no idea, but posting essentially the same thing three times
in just about a day is not likely to help you get an answer.

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