[Mediawiki-l] Server Migration Issues

[trueskew]

On Centos 5.5, leaving all things the same and downgrading PHP to 5.1.6
resulted in everything working as expected.  I went ahead and switched to
Ubuntu Server 10.04 which has had no problems at all so far.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: trueskew [mailto:trueskew at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Friday, November 19, 2010 2:55 AM
> To: 'MediaWiki announcements and site admin list'
> Subject: RE: [Mediawiki-l] Server Migration Issues
> 
> From the source, I can see that the paths are right, as shown 
> by the working BreadCrumbs and logos.  I've got a few more clues.  
> ------------------------------------------------
> 1) I'm using collapsible tables, and there aren't any 
> Show/Hide links.  Common.js holds the javascript needed to do 
> it, so it appears it's not getting loaded either.  From the 
> source, the beginning of a hidden section on the Ubuntu side shows:
> 
> <table class="collapsible collapsed" id="collapsibleTable0"> 
> <tbody><tr> <th><span class="collapseButton">[<a 
> id="collapseButton0" 
> href="javascript:collapseTable(0);">Show</a>]</span><i> 
> Tags:</i></th> </tr> <tr style="display: none; ">
> <td>    
> 
> as opposed to the CentOS side, which shows only
> 
> <table class="collapsible collapsed">
> <tbody><tr>
> <th><i> Tags:</i></th>
> </tr>
> <tr>
> <td>
> ------------------------------------------------
> 2) The PageObjectModel extension is enabled in both 
> environments, but only in the CentOS environment do I see the 
> following lines included in the source:
> 
> <?
> #
> # PageObjectModel is a set of classes that allow easy 
> manipulation of MediaWiki page source.
> #
> 
> require_once('POM/Element.php');
> require_once('POM/Page.php');
> require_once('POM/Parser.php');
> require_once('POM/TemplateParser.php');
> require_once('POM/Template.php');
> require_once('POM/TemplateCollection.php');
> require_once('POM/TextNode.php');    
> ------------------------------------------------
> I'm running out of time on this, I'm almost ready to give up 
> on CentOS and go Ubuntu for the main server.  I'm not crazy 
> about that idea for other enterprise-related reasons though.
> 
> Thanks for the feedback.
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mediawiki-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org
> > [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of 
> > Platonides
> > Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 9:37 AM
> > To: mediawiki-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> > Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Server Migration Issues
> > 
> > trueskew wrote:
> > > Yesterday I set up a new server and migrated my site from
> > >  
> > > For the most part things have worked, but so far I've found 2 
> > > exceptions (I'm using monobook):
> > > 
> > > - Code in Common.css doesn't seem to be running.  Some
> > style changes
> > > that were init failed, for the moment I've had to update
> > some monobook
> > > skin files directly.
> > >
> > >
> > > - When I typed a term in the previous sidebar searchbox, it
> > would show
> > > a dropdown list of items matching the pattern I typed in.  
> > On the new
> > > one, no pattern shows up.
> > 
> > It looks like the urls generated by the wiki for those items are 
> > wrong.
> > Take a look at the page source at what url is it builiding.
> > 
> > You may also want to check that $wgEnableMWSuggest is set 
> to true and 
> > $wgUseSiteCss is not set to false.
> > 
> > > Has anyone else seen similar behavior, and have you figured
> > out why?  
> > > I'm not sure how to deal with this, and I'd hate to have to
> > downgrade
> > > PHP if I can avoid it.  I did the same migration to an 
> Ubuntu 10.04 
> > > machine, it transferred over and ran fine.
> > > 
> > > Thanks for any feedback, I appreciate it.
> > > - skew
> > 
> > 
> > 
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