[Mediawiki-l] Problems with MySQL apparently

[Maurice Joseph]

Evan;

I assume you received this error during the installation phase. If so, maybe 
this will help

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Installing_MediaWiki_on_Windows_Server_2003_SP1
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Newcomers_guide_to_installing_on_Windows


> I'm trying to install MediaWiki 1.5.0 on IIS 6, PHP5, and MySQL 5.0, using
> config/index.php install helper, however I get the following error:
>  Initialising "MediaWiki" namespace...
> A database error has occurred
> Query: INSERT INTO `page`
> (page_id,page_namespace,page_title,page_counter,page_restrictions,page_is_re
direct,page_is_new,page_random,page_touched,page_latest)
> VALUES 
(NULL,'8','1movedto2','0','sysop','0','1','0.837402787644
> 
','20051019153650','0')
> Function: Article::insertOn
> Error: 1364 Field 'page_len' doesn't have a default value (localhost)
> 
> Backtrace:
> GlobalFunctions.php line 451 calls wfBacktrace()
> Database.php line 400 calls wfDebugDieBacktrace()
> Database.php line 350 calls Database::reportQueryError()
> Database.php line 940 calls Database::query()
> Article.php line 943 calls Database::insert()
> InitialiseMessages.inc line 189 calls Article::insertOn()
> InitialiseMessages.inc line 72 calls initialiseMessagesReal()
> updaters.inc line 670 calls initialiseMessages()
> index.php line 592 calls do_all_updates()
>  I don't know much about MySQL, but from what I've been able to decipher
> about the error message, it saying that there's no value specified for the
> field 'page_len'? But 'page_len' doesn't even seem to be in the list of
> created fields. A query into the database shows that nothing lives in the
> 'page'.
>  Any help would be much appreciated.
>  Thanks,
> -Evan
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