On 7/8/2018 6:53 PM, Sharon Kimble wrote:
mick crane <mick.cr...@gmail.com> writes:
On 2018-07-08 08:53, Sharon Kimble wrote:
I'm unable to get mediawiki from the repos working as it is consistently
failing at accessing the database as part of its configuration at the
beginning. I say 'consistently' as the same problem has occurred when
trying to install mediawiki from source, and this is a clean fresh
install so I think that it must be something in my /home because it is a
completely new fresh install. But what?
Can anyone give me some guidance here please, as I've been looking in my
/home for anything 'mariadb' or 'mysql'-like but without any success.
When I input my database details into
'http://localhost/mediawiki/mw-config/index.php?page=DBConnect' I get an
error message saying -
╭────
│DB connection error: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (localhost).
│
│Check the host, username and password and try again.
╰────
To my thinking, its obviously comparing what I'm inputting into
something, and deciding that they don't match, so therefore giving me an
error message. But what is it comparing to?
Thanks
Sharon.
I don't know what error you get if mysqld is not running but best see if it is
"ps ax | grep mysql"
mick
Thanks for replying Mick.
This is what I get using a slightly better command than yours (you missed out
the 'u' in aux :)
╭────
│$ ps aux | grep mysql
│mysql 962 0.0 0.0 698580 65656 ? Ssl Jul07 0:59
/usr/sbin/mysqld
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Which is about right as I rebooted yesterday.
And I've just checked and I'm still not able to get past the 'Connect to
database' page in the mediawiki setup process.
As I don't use it myself here are some hints:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Ufz3656w7ahcryg1
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Database_access
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Installation/Creating_system_accounts
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John Doe