[Mediawiki-l] Installation problems 1.12.0, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard

[Darren VanBuren]

localhost will usually attempt to use the mysql socket, which in  
Leopard's PHP is /var/mysql/mysql.sock, as apposed to /tmp/mysql.sock,  
so that's why using localhost does not work.

as for creating the user, i don't know what to say. try an SQLite  
install. That's what i did. Then i found out how to get PHP to work  
with my copy of MySQL.

On May 29, 2008, at 10:18 PM, Daniel Barrett wrote:

> Tried 1.13 alpha and had exactly the same problem.
>
> One weirdness: when I set the mysql host to "localhost", the web  
> installer prints "Connection failed" in red.  So I changed it to my  
> host's fully qualified domain name, which worked.  "mysql -p -u  
> root" works fine from the command line.
>
> DanB
>
> _____________________________________________
> From: Daniel Barrett
> Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 1:13 AM
> To: 'MediaWiki announcements and site admin list'
> Subject: Installation problems 1.12.0, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
>
>
> I'm having problems installing MediaWiki 1.12.0 on Mac OS X 10.5  
> (Leopard).  The installation gets as far as "Granting user  
> permissions to wikiuser on wikidb...success.", and then it just  
> stops.  It does create the database tables.
>
> PHP 5.2.5 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.
> Warning: A value for session.save_path has not been set in PHP.ini.  
> If the default value causes problems with saving session data, set  
> it to a valid path which is read/write/execute for the user your web  
> server is running under.
> PHP's memory_limit is 128M.
> Couldn't find Turck MMCache, eAccelerator, APC or XCache; cannot use  
> these for object caching.
> Found GNU diff3: /usr/bin/diff3.
> Couldn't find GD library or ImageMagick; image thumbnailing disabled.
> Installation directory: /Library/WebServer/Documents/w
> Script URI path: /w
> Installing MediaWiki with php file extensions
> Environment checked. You can install MediaWiki.
> Generating configuration file...
> Database type: MySQL
> Loading class: DatabaseMysql
> Attempting to connect to database server as root...success.
> Connected to 5.0.51b
> Attempting to create database...
> Created database wikidb
> Creating tables... done.
> Initializing statistics...
> Granting user permissions to wikiuser on wikidb...success.
>
> Looking at config/index.php, I believe the next step should be  
> creating the sysop account, and sure enough, the "user" table is  
> empty so this step did not succeed; nor did it print any error  
> message. It seems to be dying on the call to $u->idForName() in that  
> section.
>
>   else if ( 0 == $u->idForName() ) { ...
>
> Any ideas what I should try next?
>
> Thanks,
> DanB
>
>
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Darren VanBuren
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