[Mediawiki-l] 'Failed opening required' error

Rob Church robchur at gmail.com
Wed Oct 12 21:02:10 UTC 2005


Does the UtfNormalUtil.php file exist in the includes/ or languages/
folder? If not, then the problem is simply that it can't be found
because it doesn't exist.


Rob Church

On 12/10/05, Kent S. Larsen II <kent at lusobraz.com> wrote:
>
> OK, for some reason my wiki has changed from working normally to giving the
> following error:
>
> Fatal error: Failed opening required 'UtfNormalUtil.php'
> (include_path='.:/***/Litdb:/***/Litdb/includes:/***/Litdb/languages') in
> /***/Litdb/includes/normal/UtfNormal.php on line 36
>
> *** -- base path to directory (Litdb) where wiki was installed
>
>
> The only thing that I know changed was that my service provider reported
> the following change at about the time things stopped working:
>
> "Default group was over the domain quota. Set quota to unlimited."
>
> Now that could be just a coincidence, but I don't understand what the
> problem is or how to solve it.
>
> I know it has something to do with the process of connecting to mysql
> through php, but what is broken is beyond my knowledge.
>
> I've not changed the software at all. I have tried the following:
>
> 1. reviewed permissions, ownership and groups of all wiki files -- all are
> set to be the owner and group that are the same as other html files. The
> files' permissions are also all set to 777
>
> 2. reviewed httpd.conf and php.ini -- the only recent change to these files
> was in httpd.conf, and that change happened several days before the problem
> occurred. The apache server was restarted several times during those days.
>
> 3. reviewed entries in LocalSettings.php that control access to mysql. The
> user exists in the mysql database and that user's permissions seem to be
> correct. The password appears to be correct also, as does the database name
> and the host name ('localhost')
>
> Don't know what else to check.
>
> I have two other software packages that use php to connect to mysql. The
> older of the two is working fine (don't know what to call it -- it is a
> heavily modified commerce package that seems to be without name in the code.
>
> The second, Drupal, I installed recently to allow me to host blogs. It was
> also up and running and at about the same time, (I was trying to get it
> configured properly) it also stopped working with errors that point to a
> similar error.
>
> If anyone has some insight into this problem, I would really appreciate it.
>
> Kent
>
>
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