[Mediawiki-l] install errors v1.8.1

[Jimmy Collins]

Hi,

1) Please use version 1.8.2 which fixed:
* (bug 7562) Fix non-ASCII namespaces on Windows/XAMPP servers

2) In setup select MySQL4 instead of MySQL5 which is marked as unstable.

Cheers Jimmy


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> Hi-- I have been encountering a consistent error when trying to install
> mediawiki 1.8.1 on XP SP2. I unistalled and reinstalled my PHP, mySQL and
> Apache and updated all files, and the error continues to occur. I also
> dropped the wiki db to retry and disabled windows firewall, but that didn't
> help. I have found several reports of other encountering this error, but
> found no solution and nothing in the help pages regarding it.
> 
> Any help much appreciated. Error message below.
> 
> Checking environment...
> 
> *Please include all of the lines below when reporting installation problems.
> *
> 
>    - PHP 5.1.6 installed
>    - Found database drivers for: MySQL
>    - PHP server API is apache2handler; ok, using pretty URLs (index.php
>    /Page_Title)
>    - Have XML / Latin1-UTF-8 conversion support.
>    - PHP is configured with no memory_limit.
>    - Have zlib support; enabling output compression.
>    - Couldn't find Turck MMCache <http://turck-mmcache.sourceforge.net/>,
>    eAccelerator <http://eaccelerator.sourceforge.net/> or
> APC<http://www.php.net/apc>.
>    Object caching functions cannot be used.
>    - GNU diff3 not found.
>    - Found GD graphics library built-in, image thumbnailing will be
>    enabled if you enable uploads.
>    - Installation directory: C:\Program Files\xampp\htdocs\wikitest
>    - Script URI path: /wikitest
>    - Environment checked. You can install MediaWiki.
>    - Warning: $wgSecretKey key is insecure, generated with mt_rand().
>    Consider changing it manually.
> 
>    *Generating configuration file...*
>    - Database type: MySQL
>    - Loading class: DatabaseMysql
>    - Attempting to connect to database server as root...success.
>    - Connected to 5.0.24a-community-nt; enabling MySQL 4.1/5.0 charset
>    mode
>    - Database wikidb exists
>    - Creating tables... using MySQL 5 table defs...
>    *Warning*: fopen(../maintenance/mysql5/tables.sql)
> [function.fopen<http://localhost/wikitest/config/function.fopen>]:
>    failed to open stream: No such file or directory in *C:\Program
>    Files\xampp\htdocs\wikitest\includes\Database.php* on line *1913*
>    Could not open "../maintenance/mysql5/tables.sql".
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