[Mediawiki-l] Trouble with MediaWiki:Common.css?

[Henny Savenije]

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At 05:46 PM 2/17/2011, you wrote:
>Inaccessible means blank pages.  While trying to 
>access the wiki in FireFox, I get a blank page - 
>not even an error message.  In IE8 I receive the 
>message " The website cannot display the page".
>Hence, I can't undo the changes I did to 
>MediaWiki:commmon.css either.   This combined 
>with your answer make me believe that the error 
>is something else than the common.css.  After 
>spending some hours on it yesterday, I decided 
>to order a full backup of the wiki database and 
>revert to the state of the day before.  (No 
>serious losses except from the time spent on this issues...)
>
>Thanks a lot for your answer!
>
>Tor
>
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>Vidvei, Tor wrote:
> > I have set up a small MediaWiki site some 
> months ago.  I wanted to change the appearance 
> of tables, and did the following:
> > From the english Wikipedia, I opened the page 
> with the common style sheet 
> (MediaWiki:Common.css), copied the content and 
> pasted it into the corresponding page in "my" 
> MediaWiki installation.  However, after some 
> minutes the entire site suddenly became completely inaccessible!
> > Of course, I suspect the change of 
> Common.css. But I might certainly have done other unintended changes.
> > My questions:
> >
> > 1)       Any proposals on how I can get access to the wiki again?
> >
> > 2)      If not, are there any way I can 
> "undo" the changes to Common.css when I have no 
> access to the Wiki?  (The wiki is installed on 
> a webhotel (http://www.one.com).  I have no 
> shell access, but access via FTP and an administration panel for MySql.
> >
> > Hoping for an answer...
> >
> > Best Regards
> > Tor Vidvei
>
>What do you mean by inaccessible?
>A bad CSS change couldn't for instance produce a blank page. It can eg.
>make you lose the styles, but nothing too dramatic.
>The easiest way to undo your change is to disable CSS in your browser
>and revert that page. The wiki will look "funny" without CSS but is
>completely usable.
>
>
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