[Mediawiki-l] Keep getting empty previews when submitting pages

[Rob Church]

On 31/10/2007, T.W.A.Maaswinkel at rn.rabobank.nl
<T.W.A.Maaswinkel at rn.rabobank.nl> wrote:
> Hey all,
> currently we are installing and preparing mediawiki within our company,
> but we only have got one problem. On a random notice the following
> happens: if you press the save button it says 'This is only a preview;
> changes have not yet been saved! ', but the rest of the content is
> disappeared. Did anyone else experiance a similar problem and did
> someone maybe already find a solution.
>
> For your information, we are using
> *       Mediawiki 1.11.0
> *       PHP 5.2.4 (apache2handler)
> *       MySQL: 5.0.45-community-nt
> *       Windows Server 2003/2000 (we tried it on both O/S)

I'm going to guess that this is a standard PHP session.save_path
misconfiguration, leading to session data loss, which *should* have
been detected during installation.

Check that the value of session.save_path in PHP.ini, and make sure
it's set to a valid path, to which the user IIS/Apache is running as
has read/write access.


Rob Church