Mailing List Archive: Install problem

Install problem

Mar 3, 2003, 4:12 AM

Post #1 of 3 (205 views)

Hi there!
So I am currently installing the third wikipedia. The first two installs
(inhouse) worked flawlessly.
I wanted to setup a third wiki on an external server:
Apache: 1.3.20
PHP: 4.0.6
MySQL: 3.23.44

I am guessing my problems relate to the PHP Version, since the INSTALL
Document mentions 4.2
The problem seems to be with saving to the DB. It is actually able to
access the DB. I verified this, by deliberately mistyping the username
and getting and error, and by changing the start-text in the "cur"
table.
Are there any quick suggestions, or do I need to bother my provider to
try to get this shared server updated.
If the latter is the only options, maybe someone could point me to
potential security problems with any of the above older software
versions.

Cheers
Leonard

Re: Install problem [ In reply to ]

vibber at lvl-sun703

Mar 3, 2003, 12:53 PM

Post #2 of 3 (200 views)

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It would help to diagnose the problem if you can provide a more detailed
description of the problem. If there are any error messages (in the page
or in the logs), please copy them in their entirety...

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Leonard Tulipan wrote:

> Hi there!
> So I am currently installing the third wikipedia. The first two installs
> (inhouse) worked flawlessly.
> I wanted to setup a third wiki on an external server:
> Apache: 1.3.20
> PHP: 4.0.6
> MySQL: 3.23.44
>
> I am guessing my problems relate to the PHP Version, since the INSTALL
> Document mentions 4.2
> The problem seems to be with saving to the DB. It is actually able to
> access the DB. I verified this, by deliberately mistyping the username
> and getting and error, and by changing the start-text in the "cur"
> table.
> Are there any quick suggestions, or do I need to bother my provider to
> try to get this shared server updated.
> If the latter is the only options, maybe someone could point me to
> potential security problems with any of the above older software
> versions.
>
> Cheers
> Leonard
>
>
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Re: Re: Install problem [ In reply to ]

l.tulipan at mpwi

Mar 10, 2003, 10:58 PM

Post #3 of 3 (201 views)

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So, my mail-client crashed, so I'm writing this a second time

I do not get a lot of debugging output. If you can help me turn on more
debugging please tell me what to do.
I did the following things in LocalSettings.php:

$wgDebugComments = true;
$wgDebugLogFile = "$wgUploadDirectory/logfile";

the logfile looks like this

20030311154840 0000.219
/admin/wiki/wiki.phtml?title=Hauptseite&action=edit (proxied via xxx
forwarded for 192.168.0.24)
20030311154843 0000.220
/admin/wiki/wiki.phtml?title=Hauptseite&action=submit (proxied via xxx
forwarded for 192.168.0.24)
(xxx is the firewall)

When I press the submit-botton on the edit form, I am still in the edit
mode, so It doesn't exit to the normal startpage.
Preview mode seems to work, so I still suspect PHP to be the wrong version.
HTML Debugging shows:

<body bgcolor='#FFFFFF'>

<div id='content'>

So not really much info there.
Can anybody tell me if updating PHP would fix this. I need a definitve yes
to persuade the server maintainer to do this.
If you can help me with further debugging, feel free to mail me.

Cheers
Leo

>
> It would help to diagnose the problem if you can provide a more detailed
> description of the problem. If there are any error messages (in the page
> or in the logs), please copy them in their entirety...
>
> -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
>
>
> On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Leonard Tulipan wrote:
>
> > Hi there!
> > So I am currently installing the third wikipedia. The first two installs
> > (inhouse) worked flawlessly.
> > I wanted to setup a third wiki on an external server:
> > Apache: 1.3.20
> > PHP: 4.0.6
> > MySQL: 3.23.44
> >
> > I am guessing my problems relate to the PHP Version, since the INSTALL
> > Document mentions 4.2
> > The problem seems to be with saving to the DB. It is actually able to
> > access the DB. I verified this, by deliberately mistyping the username
> > and getting and error, and by changing the start-text in the "cur"
> > table.
> > Are there any quick suggestions, or do I need to bother my provider to
> > try to get this shared server updated.
> > If the latter is the only options, maybe someone could point me to
> > potential security problems with any of the above older software
> > versions.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Leonard