[Mediawiki-l] MediaWiki 1.7.1 Setup Keeps Going back to Config Page without errors

[Zachary T. Wilson]

Thanks Martin, unfortunately that left me in the same place. I don't
get what's wrong with this...no php errors, no mysql errors, nada!

Anybody else?


-Zach

Tuesday, September 12, 2006, 3:53:15 PM, you wrote:

MA> I had the same problem (see below). As the installation got as far as 
MA> "created sysop account" I took a wild guess and commented out the next
MA> piece of the installation file, just to see what would happen:

MA> /*
MA> $titleobj = Title::newFromText( wfMsgNoDB( "mainpage" ) );
MA> $article = new Article( $titleobj );
$newid = $article->>insertOn( $wgDatabase );
MA> $revision = new Revision( array(
'page' =>> $newid,
'text' =>> wfMsg( 'mainpagetext' ) . "\n\n" . wfMsg( 'mainpagedocfooter' ),
'comment' =>> '',
'user' =>> 0,
'user_text' =>> 'MediaWiki default',
MA> ) );
$revid = $revision->>insertOn( $wgDatabase );
$article->>updateRevisionOn( $wgDatabase, $revision );

MA> print "<li><pre>";
MA> initialiseMessages();
MA> print "</pre></li>\n";
MA> */


MA> And - lo and behold - the installation went on without reporting a bug. The
MA> LocalSettings.php file got written, I moved it to its directory and the wiki is
MA> working. 
MA> Does anyone know what the missing piece does? I have no idea. Somehow 
MA> I am afraid that the world will explode soon.

MA> Martin

MA> Am 11 Sep 2006 um 16:25 schrieb Zachary T. Wilson:

>> Setting up media wiki is driving me crazy!
>> 
>> I have tried it a couple different ways, once in my base dir and
>> another in the wiki sub dir.  Either way it keeps going back to the
>> config/index.php page without any errors or anything and it doesn't
>> create my LocalSettings.php file.
>> 
>> My permissions for the entire dir are set to user.user 777 on all
>> files!
>> 
>> The setup says it is ok to run:
>> 
>> 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 apache; 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.
>>     * Neither Turck MMCache nor eAccelerator nor APC are installed, can't use object caching functions
>>     * Found GNU diff3: /usr/bin/diff3.
>>     * Found GD graphics library built-in, image thumbnailing will be enabled if you enable uploads.
>>     * Installation directory: /home/httpd/html/wiki/wiki
>>     * Script URI path: /wiki
>>     * Environment checked. You can install MediaWiki.
>> 
>> 
>> Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!
>> 
>> 
>> -Zach
>> 
>> 
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