[Mediawiki-l] Import failed: Loss of session data

[Jan Steinman]

> From: Angela <beesley at gmail.com>
>
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 2:02 AM, =James Birkholz= <james at birchy.com>  
> wrote:
>>
>> I'm trying to import a lot of pages (Special:Import)
>> but I keep getting this error:
>> "Import failed: Loss of session data"
>
> How much are you trying to import? I get this if I try to import a
> file larger than 10MB, though it used to be 2MB and might still be in
> some places. Try a smaller file and see if it still happens.

You may need to tweak some parameters in /etc/php.ini, such as these  
that I've changed to avoid this problem:

max_execution_time = 300     ; Maximum execution time of each script,  
in seconds
max_input_time = 60	; Maximum amount of time each script may spend  
parsing request data
memory_limit = 128M      ; Maximum amount of memory a script may  
consume (128MB)
file_uploads = On
upload_max_filesize = 80M

Hope that's helpful. Good luck!

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