[Mediawiki-l] Problems moving a wiki from Windows XP to Suse Linux

a. cremer albert.cremer at online.de
Wed Apr 25 19:40:21 UTC 2007


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"a. cremer" <albert.cremer at online.de> schrieb 
im Newsbeitrag news:f0it94$do8$1 at sea.gmane.org...
> Hi,
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> I tried to move a wiki  from an XP to an Linux platform.
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> To get used to the concept I started with an intermediate step, namely 
> moving the wiki from one XP platform to another (see table below).
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>      Platform
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>      #
>     PHP version
>     Mediawiki version
>     MySQL version
>     Operating system
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>      A
>     5.2
>     1.91
>     5.0.11
>     Windos XP professional
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>      B
>     5.2
>     1.93
>     5.0.11
>     Windos XP professional
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>      C
>     5.2
>     1.93
>     5.?
>     Suse Linux 10.2
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> That is what I did converting from on XP to another (#A to #B).
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>  1.. dump database of initial wiki
>  2.. dump mediawiki files 1.91 on old XP system
>  3.. import old database into mysql on new XP
>  4.. configure mediawiki 1.93 on new system using imported database
>  5.. move LocalSettings.php from config directory to Base directory of 
> 1.93 version
>  6.. successfully test 1.93 version (of course without certain 
> functionality of former 1.91 version)
>  7.. copy all 1.91 files into base directory of 1.93 version. Finished. It 
> works
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> When converting from XP 1.91 version to Linux Version (#A to #C) I did 
> exactly the same following steps 1-6.
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> Unfortunately step 7. did not work.
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> The result was that there was no result at all, just a blank page ;-(
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> When I compared the 1.93 LocalSettings.php with the 1.91 version there was 
> a difference between these three lines
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> $wgScriptPath       = "";
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> $wgScript           = "$wgScriptPath/index.php";
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> $wgRedirectScript   = "$wgScriptPath/redirect.php";
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> When I deleted these lines the 1.93 Linux wiki started with the 1.91 
> LocalSettings.php file but lacked some functionality, e. g. no 
> personalized logo, no access to pages that use templates, some bad 
> formatting.
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> Does anyone know where the problem might be?
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> Kind regards
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> A. Cremer
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> P. S.
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> I hope I did not confuse anybody with to much 1.91s and 1.93s 






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