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MediaWiki-l August 2004

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by Matthew Simoneau

I'm interested using MediaWiki as our intranet wiki. Rather than making everyone create a new account, I am hoping to find an easy way to hook the login into our existing LDAP database. One low-tech way to do this is to shell out of PHP and somehow ask UNIX. Has anyone looked into this before?

19?years, 7?months

search box problem

by June Kim

I have created a MediaWiki site and it really looks good, but the search button doesn't seem to work: it only works for a very small set of words, and that quite erratically. Do I need to set up something, for example, run an index building script everyday? Or is it that I don't have to do anything normally but something must have been messed up, for example, by me editing the sidebar template? I'm using MediaWiki 1.3.0, PHP 4.3.8, MySQL 3.23.58. Thanks. -June

19?years, 8?months

MediaWiki installation fails communicating to DB even though user has been created with all privileges.

by Bart Read

Dear All, I've just been trying to install MediaWiki on a Windows XP (SP2) box for development purposes. Eventually the wiki will be hosted on a Linux box. My basic configuration is Apache 2.0.50, PHP 4.3.8, and MySQL 4.1 beta (needed for another project). After supplying all the configuration parameters I get the following output: MediaWiki 1.3.2 installation Please include all of the lines below when reporting installation problems. Checking environment... * PHP 4.3.8: ok * PHP server API is apache2handler; ok, using pretty URLs (index.php/Page_Title) * Have XML / Latin1-UTF-8 conversion support. * PHP is configured with no memory_limit. * Have zlib support; enabling output compression. * Found GD graphics library built-in, image thumbnailing will be enabled if you enable uploads. * Installation directory: C:\\Apache\\Apache2\\htdocs\\cvc * Script URI path: /cvc * Warning: $wgProxyKey is insecure Connected as root (automatic) * Connected to database... 4.1.3-beta-nt; enabling MySQL 4 enhancementsWarning: $wgProxyKey is insecure * Database wikidb exists * Creating tables... done. * Initializing data... * Granting user permissions... Sorry! The wiki is experiencing some technical difficulties, and cannot contact the database server. I have tried this using the automated AND manual DB / user creation. I have created the mysql user as follows: mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'wikiuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password' WITH GRANT OPTION; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec) mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'wikiuser'@'holly' IDENTIFIED BY 'password' WITH GRANT OPTION; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec) ...so I would have thought the user should have all the database privileges it needs. Does anybody have any idea why I can't get the installation to work properly? I've searched the web but to no avail: lots of people reporting this error message in slightly different circumstances, but mostly nobody has been able to provide any assistance. I'd be really grateful if anybody does know why this is happening because I simply can't make any progress with my project until it is fixed. Many thanks, Bart Read

19?years, 8?months

Re: [Mediawiki-l] wfQuery() fails

by Len Yabloko

Yes, you right, it worked with root user. Thanks But now when I search for "Einstein" it gives me empty page. What could this be? Leonid Yabloko Next Generation Software www.ontospace.net

19?years, 9?months

Re: [Mediawiki-l] WIki title not displaying properly

by Jimmy Apple

Message: 1 Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 23:09:34 -0700 From: Brion Vibber <brion(a)pobox.com> Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] WIki title not displaying properly To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list <mediawiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org> Message-ID: <4134161E.3040303(a)pobox.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Jimmy Apple wrote> > When I use MW 1.3.0, and my DB data was loaded with > the wikipedia data as a demo, My site Title is set to > : > $wgSitename = "Mysite Encyclopedia"; > > However, when my page loads, I consistently get > "Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia" instead of my own > site's info. > > Any ideas why? You loaded in Wikipedia's interface messages in the database. -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com ) Thanks Brion, Do you know how I can change that? Where are the interface messages that I have to edit? Thanks __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

19?years, 9?months

wrapping my mind around Navigation

by Brierley, Mike

First let me apologize, I'm somewhat new at managing a Wiki. I'm trying to modify the Navigation area of the Wiki. Is there any documentation for this? Perhaps if I understood how it was built I'd have a better idea. Any Hints would be awesome. Email Disclaimer: http://www.co.marin.ca.us/nav/misc/EmailDisclaimer.cfm

19?years, 9?months

Setting up media wiki without write access

by Brian Peyton

I have php/mysql hosting and they do not let me give everyone write access to a directory. MediaWiki can't write LocalSettings.php to it's configuration directory, so I can't set it up. I know phpBB detects to see if you have write access, and if not it lets you download config.php for you to ftp. Are there any modifications or things in the cvs that will do that, or are there any ways around this?

19?years, 9?months

Handler for file:// type URLs?

by Nick Triantos

Hi all, I'm running Mediawiki 1.3.2 on my machine, and wanted to know if there's any easy way to get file:// type URLs to be supported. I'll probably start hacking on the source for Parser.php, just wasn't sure if there was something else I'm missing, first. thanks, -Nick

19?years, 9?months

Pretty URLs are gone after changes on the webserver

by Nikolai Neumayer

Hello, I was very happy with my installation of Mediawiki until the webmaster changed something on the webserver. Originally, the success-page after the installation showed this line: [...] * PHP server API is apache; ok, using pretty URLs (index.php/Page_Title) [...] Everything was fine, I had really pretty URLs. Then the webmaster did his changes (I don't know which changes he did) and the pretty URLs were gone. After a reinstall, the success-page looks like this: MediaWiki 1.3.2 installation Please include all of the lines below when reporting installation problems. Checking environment... * PHP 4.3.2: ok * Warning: PHP's register_globals option is enabled. MediaWiki will work correctly, but this setting increases your exposure to potential security vulnerabilities in PHP-based software running on your server. You should disable it if you are able. * PHP server API is apache2filter; using ugly URLs (index.php?title=Page_Title) * Have XML / Latin1-UTF-8 conversion support. * PHP's memory_limit is 8M. If this is too low, installation may fail! Attempting to raise limit to 20M... ok. * Have zlib support; enabling output compression. * Found GD graphics library built-in, image thumbnailing will be enabled if you enable uploads. * Installation directory: /home/prodman/www2/wuki * Script URI path: /prodman/wuki * Warning: $wgProxyKey is insecure MySQL error 1045: Access denied for user: 'root@localhost' (Using password: NO) * Trying regular user... ok. * Connected to database... 3.23.58 * Database prodman2 exists * There are already MediaWiki tables in this database. Checking if updates are needed... ...ipblocks is up to date. ...already have interwiki table ...indexes seem up to 20031107 standards ...have linkscc table. ...linkscc is up to date, or does not exist. Good. ...have hitcounter table. Converting links table to ID-ID... Schema already converted ...have user_real_name field in user table. ...have special page querycache table. ...have objectcache table. ...have categorylinks table. Template namespace already initialised Initialising "MediaWiki" namespace... Clearing message cache...Done. * Finished update checks. Creating LocalSettings.php... Success! Move the LocalSettings.php file into the parent directory, then follow this link to your wiki. What is necessary, to get the pretty URLs back? Any hint would be appreciated! Nikolai

19?years, 9?months

WIki title not displaying properly

by Jimmy Apple

Hello, When I use MW 1.3.0, and my DB data was loaded with the wikipedia data as a demo, My site Title is set to : $wgSitename = "Mysite Encyclopedia"; However, when my page loads, I consistently get "Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia" instead of my own site's info. Any ideas why? Thanks __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

19?years, 9?months

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