On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Mike<[email protected]> wrote:
> ST47, > > Thanks for getting back to me. I've been doing some major debugging > today. I have setup a test wiki since I want to test the code before > decimating a live wiki, so I decided I'd just upgrade to the latest > code, in case it was a problem in that version. This didn't resolve the > problem. I setup a new MediaWiki install from scratch on another server > and this time it worked. This narrowed the problem down to either the > DB or the config file. After a diff of the config file and some > experimenting, it came down to the setting of $wgArticlePath. > > I have clean URLs configured and so have it set to $wgArticlePath = > '/$1'; This torpedoes the API code. If I comment it out, my code works > as expected, uncomment it and I end up with the data written to Api.php > again. > > This appears to be the symptom. I haven't been able to identify the > cause yet. I've done a quick Google and there does appear to be some > stories of the API code causing some agro with paths. Namely this: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=484855 > > I need to do a little more digging into the actual cause though. > > I don't know if you have any ideas? > > Mike. > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAkpqIvsACgkQmUrfmTU1ohUsTACg4fiSFGSLqA4/SqhH0GgcfOW+ > BekAoMnHAemoyl/euh1qzPtCS3UY7wPT > =mqJG > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Mediawiki-api mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api > > I'm tempted to say that it's got to be entirely a bug with the redhat package. Since I don't have such a machine to test it on, I'm afraid I can't be of much help, except to say that downloading the source yourself should work as a long term solution, as you already have done. -- DCollins/ST47 Administrator, en.wikipedia.org Channel Operator, irc.freenode.net/#wikipedia Maintainer, MediaWiki::Bot module _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api
