[Mediawiki-l] Problems Installing mediawiki

[alicatux]

> I then proceed to down load the "data base dump" by pointing my
> browser to  http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20091009/enwiki-20091009-pages-articles.xml.bz2
> but it report with ERROR 403: Forbidden!

I got a nice 404 and it's a two-years-ago dump , so it might be gone,
the latest one is on http://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20110803/

> "http://localhost/wikipedia/" (I install the program
> under var/www/wikipedia) the browser display a "blank screen"
it should nor give you a blank screen, did you install php?


On 4 September 2011 01:42, Chung Kin Mong <victormong at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have followed the instruction from the website "igeek" and installed
> the "mediawiki" (the installation software say "successful" or
> something like that).
>
> When I go to "http://localhost/wikipedia/" (I install the program
> under var/www/wikipedia) the browser display a "blank screen" and I
> suppose that is normal because I have not put any data there yet (I
> may be wrong here and please confirm my understanding).
>
> I then proceed to down load the "data base dump" by pointing my
> browser to  http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20091009/enwiki-20091009-pages-articles.xml.bz2
> but it report with ERROR 403: Forbidden!
>
> I recalled that in a previous attempt (i.e. about 20 minutes before I
> started the installation) I have been able to browse the page but at
> that time I don't know which file to download so I just quit.
>
> I would be much appreciated if someone tell me how to get hold of the
> "data base dump file", thanks in advance!
>
> Best regards,
>
> Victor Mong
>
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