I have pursued the matter further:
1) the apache log shows 20024 error codes from the onstart of mediawiki
installation when "Special Pages" are accessed. The problem got worse when I
edited the "Sidebar" page and now Apache complains with system error dialogs
on _all_ "special pages" access. In other words, the Wikis are unuseable.
2) I have two Wikis installed under the same backend support (see original
email below viz Apache, MySQL etc.): BOTH OF THEM exhibit the same problem
AND I only edited the "sidebar" page from one of them !!
3) Each wiki is installed in its own database i.e. not sharing a database
under different prefixes.
4) I have reinstalled XAMPP 1.5.3a package [Apache, MySQL, PHP] and kept the
original wiki MySQL databases.
** Thus, I would tend to believe that MediaWiki 1.6.7 breaks a critical
system table on MySQL.
Any help appreciated!
Jld.
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[mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Jean-Lou Dupont
Sent: July 28, 2006 06:37
To: mediawiki-l(a)wikimedia.org
Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Apache error code 20024 & MediaWiki
My config:
Windows XP
HYPERLINK "http://www.mediawiki.org/"MediaWiki: 1.6.7 HYPERLINK
"http://www.php.net/"PHP: 5.1.4 HYPERLINK
"http://www.mysql.com/"MySQL:
5.0.21-community-nt-log Apache 2.2.2
I get the error:
[Thu Jul 27 22:45:52 2006] [error] [client x.x.x.x] (20024)The given path
misformatted or contained invalid characters: Cannot map GET
/XYZ_Wiki/index.php/Special:Specialpages HTTP/1.1 to file, referer: ...
[Thu Jul 27 23:28:53 2006] [notice] Parent: child process exited with status
3221225477 -- Restarting.
+ a crash report from windows about Apache...
I have read the following thread: HYPERLINK
"http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2006-April/011156.html"http
://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2006-April/011156.html
but can't seem to find an answer.
Any hint?
There problems started soon after I edited "MediaWiki:Sidebar" but I can't
tell for sure if there is a correlation.
jld.
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