[Mediawiki-l] TeX not working on fresh install

[Frank Fulchiero]

Not sure why, but we had to do a heck of a lot more than that on OSX  
Server.
We documented it here...
http://nutmeg.conncoll.edu/wiki/index.php/Enabling_texvx

More info here also
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texvc
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Running_MediaWiki_on_FreeBSD
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual_talk:Running_MediaWiki_on_Mac_OS_X

Good luck!
Frank Fulchiero
Digital Media Specialist
Connecticut College

> From: Boris Steipe <boris.steipe at utoronto.ca>
> Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] TeX not working on fresh install
>
> No, the directories are under "images"
>
> create
>
> wiki/images/math
> wiki/images/tmp
>
> chmod 777 wiki/images/math wiki/images/tmp
>
> should work but chown daemon with 700 permissions seems to work as  
> well.
>
> On 12-Dec-07, at 8:02 PM, Aaron Gray wrote:
>
>> Hi, I cannot get TeX to work.
>> I have enabled $wgUseTeX and am getting the error message :-
>>         Failed to parse (Can't write or create math temp directory):
>> I have created a temp directory under the math directory and have
>> done a chmod 777 on it.
>> But still get the error.
>>