[MediaWiki-l] Strange cookie problems when registering/logging in

2012-06-25 Thread Lukas Bürgi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I volunteered to administrate a wiki which was left to itself for quite some time. The previous admin left in a bad way and it's possible he messed stuff up purposefully before he left. So I upgraded the wiki to 1.19.1 by copying the LocalSettings.php

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Strange cookie problems when registering/logging in

2012-06-25 Thread Krenair
Have you tried using diff to reveal what is different between your clean version of MediaWiki and the broken one you've been given? Krenair On 25/06/12 17:08, Lukas Bürgi wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I volunteered to administrate a wiki which was left to itself for

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Strange cookie problems when registering/logging in

2012-06-25 Thread Jeffrey T. Darlington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 After that, check that your PHP session directory is writable by the user under which your web server daemon is running. I use a non-standard user/group combination for Apache on my server and end up locking myself out of my MediaWiki every time I

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Strange cookie problems when registering/logging in

2012-06-25 Thread Lukas Bürgi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 25.06.2012 18:15, Krenair wrote: Have you tried using diff to reveal what is different between your clean version of MediaWiki and the broken one you've been given? Krenair On 25/06/12 17:08, Lukas Bürgi wrote: I volunteered to

[MediaWiki-l] recent changes with rss extension

2012-06-25 Thread chris
I'm using Extension:RSS to display a recent changes feed in my wiki. My question is: for the category I'm filtering on, there hasn't been much activity or added content recently so it's just displaying the last entry which was 5 days ago *and* no more. Anyone know how to go back further in

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Strange cookie problems when registering/loggingin

2012-06-25 Thread Lukas Bürgi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 25.06.2012 19:14, Frank Ralf wrote: The user account was not created, as we could not confirm its source. Ensure you have cookies enabled, reload this page and try again. When trying to log into my existing account, I get PandoraWiki uses

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Strange cookie problems when registering/logging in

2012-06-25 Thread Platonides
On 25/06/12 18:54, Lukas Bürgi wrote: Hmm, I don't think this can work. It seems I wasn't clear enough, but I got a wiki which was full of spam and was on version 1.15. So I made a clean new install of 1.19.1 by putting the 1.19.1 files in a new folder and copying the old LocalSettings.php

Re: [MediaWiki-l] recent changes with rss extension

2012-06-25 Thread Platonides
On 25/06/12 19:26, chris wrote: I'm using Extension:RSS to display a recent changes feed in my wiki. My question is: for the category I'm filtering on, there hasn't been much activity or added content recently so it's just displaying the last entry which was 5 days ago *and* no more. Anyone

Re: [MediaWiki-l] How to see the wikitext in read-only mode

2012-06-25 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
On 06/24/2012 03:00 PM, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: Platonides has already done a lot of work with the Debian community, and I'll be working from his comments Debian's MediaWiki packages so we can get some sort of synchronization between packages. I'll try to report back tonight with what I