[Mediawiki-l] please add me to your mailing list!

Platonides Platonides at gmail.com
Mon Nov 17 19:04:22 UTC 2008


Lyndie Chiou wrote:
> Sorry to spam everyone with my add request.
> 
> I had a question - I'm a newbie to mediawiki & I installed the program (v.
> 1.13.2) successfully to my website: www.researchpipeline.com.
> 
> But when I went to www.researchpipeline.com/mediawiki (where it was
> installed), it just gives me the message that I need to set up mediawiki
> first! I tried setting it up again with the exact same result. No error
> messages or anything. 


> I then went and looked at my website's error logs in
> cPanel and found the following messages (the time-stamp was around the same
> time I was manually installing mediawiki, but I don't know if these errors
> are related):


Not related


> Here's the output file mediawiki gave me after installation:
>     * PHP 5.2.6 installed
>     * Found database drivers for: MySQL PostgreSQL SQLite
>     * PHP server API is cgi; using ugly URLs (index.php?title=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 32M.
>     * Couldn't find Turck MMCache, eAccelerator, APC or XCache; cannot use
> these for object caching.
>     * GNU diff3 not found.
>     * Found GD graphics library built-in, image thumbnailing will be enabled
> if you enable uploads.
>     * Installation directory:
> /home/lyndi1/public_html/researchpipeline/mediawiki
>     * Script URI path: /mediawiki
>     * Installing MediaWiki with php file extensions
>     * Environment checked. You can install MediaWiki.
>     * Warning: $wgSecretKey key is insecure, generated with mt_rand().
> Consider changing it manually.
>     *
> 
>       Generating configuration file...
>     * Database type: MySQL
>     * Loading class: DatabaseMysql
>     * Attempting to connect to database server as lyndi1_wikiuser...success.
>     * Connected to 5.0.51a-community; enabling MySQL 4.1/5.0 charset mode
>     * Database lyndi1_wikidb exists
>     * Creating tables... done.
>     * Initializing statistics...
>     * Created sysop account wikisysop.
>     *
> 
>       Creating LocalSettings.php...
> 
>       Installation successful! Move the config/LocalSettings.php file to the
> parent directory, then follow this link to your wiki.


Did you move the LocalSettings file?
Was the LocalSettings file created?
If not, check the folder permissions.

Perhaps you moved the file to a different place?
It's clearly not at 
http://www.researchpipeline.com/mediawiki/LocalSettings.php




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