Well as I said this is wierd. I tried opening the web site with the
actual IP address and it all seems to work as far as the mediawiki
starting the configuration process. Strange huh, Now I have the Godaddy
DNS server set up to forward the name
www.physicswiki.net to the IP
address mentioned, with masking, and that seems to work OK, but there is
still a glitch, likely caused by my ignorance of how to set this all up.
Again, any tips or suggestions.
john
On Fri, 2013-10-11 at 10:01 -0500, John Foster wrote:
Aas I said, nothing happened. Th screen stayed exactly
the same. I
looked at the page source & it was OK, the instructions in the link were
good, it said to go to the correct page and open the index.php file
in /mw-config withing the mediawiki directory, just nothing happened. No
error messages, nada. Any ideas. I figure it is a permission thing but
have no idea how to fix it. take a look,the link to the page is
http://www.physicswiki.net
If it works for you, message me back please don't try to finish the
setup.
On Fri, 2013-10-11 at 11:07 +0100, Alex Monk wrote:
> Nothing happened? Did your browser not change pages? Did you get a blank
> screen?
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 5:18 AM, John W. Foster
<jfoster81747(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
>
> > As the title say, I just installed mediawiki 1.21.2 on a remotely hosted
> > VPS server. I got everything set up using the putty software, and the
> > remote server is a Debian 'squeeze' system, where I do have
'root' level
> > access & can install what ever i need. First rattle out of the bag the
> > mediawiki fired up in my browser and asked for me to complete the
> > installation, as I expected. However when I clicked on the link to
> > 'complete the installation' nothing happened. I tried a chown -R to
> > www-data for the entire wiki, but that made no difference. a test of
> > php5 shows all OK as well as does the apache server it's running on.
> > This is my first ever attempt to manage a wiki remotely, so any tips are
> > appreciated. I just don't have a clue why this did'nt work.
> > Thanks
> > John