[Mediawiki-l] Thumbs generating issue
Bogdan Toma
bog_tom at yahoo.com
Thu May 28 01:48:48 UTC 2009
Message: 6
Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 00:51:16 +0200
From: Platonides <Platonides at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Thumbs generating issue
To: mediawiki-l at lists.wikimedia.org
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Bogdan Toma wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> My host enabled safe_mode so I'm kind of struggling in my way to install mediawiki.
A bad move.
*** There is nothing I can do about it.
> * MediaWiki version: 1.14
> * PHP version: 5.2.8 (GD enabled)
> * MySQL version: 4.1.22
>
> Currently I have two issues with my mediawiki installation:
> - I had to set 777 on images folder; otherwise upload won't work (I heard this action isn't safe at all); how I can make it to work with 755 only?
It really depends on your configuration. You should ask your host about it.
*** I can't contact them but according with MediaWiki workaround for safe_mode=on I don't need 777 on images folder (755 should be enough). Why do I have to contact my host and what should I tell them about it?
> - currently no thumbs are generated (somehow it worked on another installation that I had to remove it)
>
> I noticed that if I upload 2 images (image1.jpg and image2.jpg) they will be copied/created under /images folder and under thumb folder
> I can see two folders (not files) /images/thumb/image1.jpg and /images/thumb/image2.jpg with no files inside. I don't think it supposed to do that (one folder/file)
It is. But those folders are not supposed to be empty but to contain the
thumbs. What permissions are they created with? You may need to change
the mw folder creation permission to 777 too.
*** I set 777 - as I said - on all images subdirectories. I used a FTP client to create them.
> I don't have putty access to server (only ftp - To control domain I use Parallels Plesk Control Panel 8.6: http://www.parallels.com/products/plesk/)
>
> I couldn't change php.ini settings but I modified LocalSettings.php as suggested here( http://www.mwusers.com/wiki/index.php?title=PHP_Configuration#Enable_php_error_logging ) but I didn't get any error when the upload was made. Only thumbnails aren't generated.
>
> Here are the entries from my LocalSettings file that are upload related:
>
> $wgEnableUploads = true;
> $wgHashedUploadDirectory = false;
> $wgSaveDeletedFiles = true;
> $wgFileStore['deleted']['directory'] = false;// Defaults to
> $wgUploadDirectory/deleted
> $wgFileStore['deleted']['url'] = null; // Private, so set to null
> $wgFileStore['deleted']['hash'] = 0; // 0-level subdirectory split
> $wgThumbnailScriptPath = "{$wgScriptPath}/thumb.php";
>
>
*** Are these right ?
Thank you,
Bogdan
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Message: 7
Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 01:51:32 +0200
From: Hanno B?ck <hanno at hboeck.de>
Subject: [Mediawiki-l] [PATCH] anonymous editing
To: mediawiki-l at lists.wikimedia.org
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Hi,
Attached is a patch to mediawiki that adds a new option
$wgDontSaveIPs
What it does is allowing completely anonymous wikis by replacing the IP adress
with 0.0.0.0.
(a bit background, there's a german campaign wirspeichernnicht.de, which wants
to enforce a more anonymous web and provides a couple of descriptions how to
disable ip saving in different apps - for mediawiki it tells to change the
source, though I thought a clean option would be better:
http://www.wirspeichernnicht.de/content/view/9/24/)
Attached patch is against mediawiki 1.15rc1. Would be nice if you would apply
it.
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Message: 8
Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 20:16:02 -0400
From: Michael Daly <michael.daly at kayakwiki.org>
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] [PATCH] anonymous editing
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Hanno B?ck wrote:
>
> Attached is a patch to mediawiki that adds a new option
> $wgDontSaveIPs
It's a bad idea to use a negative in a name. In English, it makes for
confusing program statements with double negatives ( e.g. not don't
save) It would be better to use a name like:
$wgSaveIPs
and have it default to true (the current state). Then set it to false
if you don't want the IPs saved.
Mike
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Message: 9
Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 17:37:50 -0700
From: Jan Steinman <Jan at Bytesmiths.com>
Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Link for "E-mail new password" breaks when
username has a space in it
To: mediawiki-l at lists.wikimedia.org
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I have changed the text of MediaWiki:Passwordremindertext in an
attempt to include a link, so that people won't have to go enter user/
pass on a form.
I know, it's a small thing, but almost all other websites that have
you register with an email address have this feature, and we have a
fairly large number of users who are not particularly sophisticated
computer users.
So I put:
{{SERVER}}{{localurl:Special:Userlogin}}?wpName=$2&wpPassword=
$3&returnto=Special:Preferences
in the Passwordremindertext message, but the user ID has (by
convention) a space in it, as we use (by convention) "Firstname
Lastname" as our user IDs. This causes the link to break in
{{localurl:Special:Userlogin}}. This causes our unsophisticated user
base to simply give up, rather than copy-n-paste the password.
At one time, I'm pretty sure I had this working, but a user recently
complained, and then I discovered that it *never* works any longer, at
least for our user name convention, at least for MW 1.13.
Are there others out there who are successfully using a "clickback"
link in MediaWiki:passwordremindertext who would like to share their
secret?
Thanks in advance!
:::: The antidote to fear is action! ::::
:::: Jan Steinman http://www.EcoReality.org ::::
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