[Mediawiki-l] Problems with MediaWiki on Windows with Apache :-(

Tue Nov 7 13:46:57 UTC 2006

I've had similar issues on a Windows/Apache setup with MediaWiki.  I
don't know what is causing your specific errors, but you might want to
try forcing MediaWiki to use an SMTP-method to send email.  I did
create a brief write-up of how I got this working with my setup, but
it is not thoroughly tested on multiple configurations - it just
worked for what I needed to get done.  You're welcome to review and
try it if you'd like:

http://www.datahead.org/wiki/index.php/Wiki_Setup_Information#Email_Settings

Matt

On 11/7/06, markgillespie at dek.com <markgillespie at dek.com> wrote:
>
> After having no trouble running our test MediaWiki 1.8.2 server on Linux, I
> was kinda forced into using Win2000 as our production server.  So have
> spend the best part of the day moving data and configuring things.  I have
> 1 problem I cannot resolve.  I cannot get the email notifications to work
> correctly.  I am using the PHP mail() method of sending emails.
>
> When I request a validation email, MediaWiki says it failed to send.
> However the email arrives just fine.  I can then validate my email address
> and setup watches.  However when watched pages are edited, I don't get
> notifications.
>
> Looking at the Apache log, there are some clues...
>
> [Mon Nov 06 13:49:24 2006] [error] [client 195.213.114.210] (20024)The
> given path misformatted or contained invalid characters: Cannot map GET
> /index.php/User:Mgillespie HTTP/1.1 to file, referer:
> http://mediawiki/index.php?title=Special:Userlogin&action=submitlogin&type=login&returnto=Main_Page
> [Mon Nov 06 13:49:28 2006] [error] [client 195.213.114.210] (20024)The
> given path misformatted or contained invalid characters: Cannot map GET
> /index.php/Special:Preferences HTTP/1.1 to file, referer:
> http://mediawiki/index.php/User:Mgillespie
> [Mon Nov 06 13:49:30 2006] [error] [client 195.213.114.210] (20024)The
> given path misformatted or contained invalid characters: Cannot map GET
> /index.php/Special:Confirmemail HTTP/1.1 to file, referer:
> http://mediawiki/index.php/Special:Preferences
> [Mon Nov 06 13:49:32 2006] [error] [client 195.213.114.210] (20024)The
> given path misformatted or contained invalid characters: Cannot map POST
> /index.php/Special:Confirmemail HTTP/1.1 to file, referer:
> http://mediawiki/index.php/Special:Confirmemail
> [Mon Nov 06 13:50:20 2006] [error] [client 195.213.115.75] (20024)The given
> path misformatted or contained invalid characters: Cannot map GET
> /index.php/Special:Confirmemail/3a49f39b4563163c2228ffe392112a24 HTTP/1.1
> to file
> [Mon Nov 06 13:50:27 2006] [error] [client 195.213.115.75] (20024)The given
> path misformatted or contained invalid characters: Cannot map GET
> /index.php/Special:Preferences HTTP/1.1 to file, referer:
> http://mediawiki/index.php/Special:Confirmemail/3a49f39b4563163c2228ffe392112a24
> [Mon Nov 06 13:50:36 2006] [error] [client 195.213.114.114] (20024)The
> given path misformatted or contained invalid characters: Cannot map GET
> /index.php/Talk:Main_Page HTTP/1.1 to file, referer:
> http://mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page
> [Mon Nov 06 13:50:40 2006] [error] [client 195.213.115.75] (20024)The given
> path misformatted or contained invalid characters: Cannot map POST
> /index.php/Special:Preferences HTTP/1.1 to file, referer:
> http://mediawiki/index.php/Special:Preferences
> [Mon Nov 06 13:50:46 2006] [error] [client 195.213.115.75] (20024)The given
> path misformatted or contained invalid characters: Cannot map GET
> /index.php/Special:Recentchanges HTTP/1.1 to file, referer:
> http://mediawiki/index.php/Special:Preferences
> [Mon Nov 06 13:53:58 2006] [error] [client 195.213.115.75] (20024)The given
> path misformatted or contained invalid characters: Cannot map GET
> /index.php/Special:Watchlist HTTP/1.1 to file, referer:
> http://mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page
> [Mon Nov 06 13:54:02 2006] [error] [client 195.213.115.75] (20024)The given
> path misformatted or contained invalid characters: Cannot map GET
> /index.php/Special:Watchlist/edit HTTP/1.1 to file, referer:
> http://mediawiki/index.php/Special:Watchlist
> [Mon Nov 06 14:02:13 2006] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (20024)The given path
> misformatted or contained invalid characters: Cannot map GET
> /index.php/Special:Preferences HTTP/1.1 to file, referer:
> http://localhost/index.php/Main_Page
> [Mon Nov 06 14:05:06 2006] [error] [client 195.213.115.29] (20024)The given
> path misformatted or contained invalid characters: Cannot map GET
> /index.php/Special:Preferences HTTP/1.1 to file, referer:
> http://mediawiki/index.php?title=Special:Userlogin&action=submitlogin&type=login&returnto=Main_Page
> [Mon Nov 06 14:05:14 2006] [error] [client 195.213.115.29] (20024)The given
> path misformatted or contained invalid characters: Cannot map GET
> /index.php/Special:Confirmemail HTTP/1.1 to file, referer:
> http://mediawiki/index.php/Special:Preferences
> [Mon Nov 06 14:05:22 2006] [error] [client 195.213.115.29] (20024)The given
> path misformatted or contained invalid characters: Cannot map POST
> /index.php/Special:Confirmemail HTTP/1.1 to file, referer:
> http://mediawiki/index.php/Special:Confirmemail
> [Mon Nov 06 14:06:21 2006] [error] [client 195.213.115.29] (20024)The given
> path misformatted or contained invalid characters: Cannot map GET
> /index.php/Special:Confirmemail/a397016844cd9fd1537f5fdfcc62ae20 HTTP/1.1
> to file
> [Mon Nov 06 14:06:34 2006] [error] [client 195.213.115.29] (20024)The given
> path misformatted or contained invalid characters: Cannot map GET
> /index.php/Special:Preferences HTTP/1.1 to file, referer:
> http://mediawiki/index.php/Special:Confirmemail/a397016844cd9fd1537f5fdfcc62ae20
> [Mon Nov 06 14:07:00 2006] [error] [client 195.213.115.29] (20024)The given
> path misformatted or contained invalid characters: Cannot map POST
> /index.php/Special:Preferences HTTP/1.1 to file, referer:
> http://mediawiki/index.php/Special:Preferences
>
>
> What is happening?  Is MediaWiki sending invalid URL's to Apache?  Thats
> what it looks like....  Does Apache behave differently on Windows and *nix?
>
>
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