[Mediawiki-l] Newbie Installation Dillemma

[Billy Covington]

Thanks for writing back!
The only options I see in my FTP programs (either Netfinder or
Transmit) are either ASCII or Binary... Does Data Fork mean ASCII?


On 11/29/05, Brion Vibber <brion at pobox.com> wrote:
> Billy Covington wrote:
> > Now, I've uploaded all of the contents of the mediawiki-1.5.2.tar into
> > the directory that singletrackwiki.thesteeps.net directs you to. I now
> > get this at the top of the page when I navigate to it (in Safari and
> > Firefox, but not IE):
> >
> > ----------------------------------------
> > index.php"Q?2?2mBIN????Defines.phph?K??K?mBIN???DefaultSettings.php?<???????mBIN????SiteConfiguration.php
> > ???????mBIN???, {{{flower image}}}
>
> Did you FTP the files from a Macintosh? Check for options in your FTP program
> about sending files as 'MacBinary'; turn that off (you want 'data fork' if there
> is an option something like this) and re-upload the files.
>
> Or, did you upload them through some kind of web form in Explorer? If so, try
> again through Safari or Firefox.
>
> -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
>
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