With PHP, a blank page usually means it's generating an error, but not displaying it in the browser; this is often disabled for security reasons, but makes debugging harder. First step should be to get PHP to spit out the actual error. There should probably be a setting in the mediawiki configuration for this, or see the PHP docs for error reporting.
-----Original Message----- From: Uwe Brauer [mailto:oub.oub....@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Uwe Brauer Sent: Monday, September 13, 2010 10:35 AM To: George Larson Cc: andrew.2.mo...@nokia.com; mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: no success (was: hard disk crash: how to discover the db?) >>>>> On Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:02:09 -0400, George Larson >>>>> <george.g.lar...@gmail.com> wrote: > We do nightly backups at work just by taring the mysql directory. In > my environment, that is /var/lib/mysql. > Like this: > service mysql stop > cd /var/lib/mysql > rm -rf * > tar zxvf file.tar > rm -rf ib_logfile* > chown -R mysql.mysql > service mysql start I have followed these steps and it seems not to work. I have re installed the mediawiki software and then I tried to open the corresponding wikipage, but only see empty pages. There are several reasons for this: - when the hard disk crashed the database was damaged, as a matter of fact when I have a look into the /var/lib/mysql/maqwiki directory most of the files are very small in size with the exception of searchindex.MYD and searchindex.MYI. I have no idea whether this is "normal". - I did not do the recover process correctly. Is there any "hardcore" mysql command I could use to check the database? - the connection between the mediawiki conf and the data base is broken. I will ask in the mediawiki page about this. Any advice and help is very much appreciated. Uwe Brauer -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=gto...@ffn.com This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee, you are notified that reviewing, disseminating, disclosing, copying or distributing this e-mail is strictly prohibited. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any loss or damage caused by viruses or errors or omissions in the contents of this message, which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. [FriendFinder Networks, Inc., 220 Humbolt court, Sunnyvale, CA 94089, USA, FriendFinder.com -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=arch...@jab.org
