[Mediawiki-l] Welcome to mediawiki-l (weekly posting)

2010-02-03 Thread River Tarnell
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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Redirect to index.php/Main_Page invalidates url

2010-02-03 Thread Philipp Lies
> When you say a different webserver, do you mean that it is on a > different machine or just that you can't change the webroot? > Your webserver should handle all of that, so the webapps know which is > their location. They are physically different machines. http://www.###.com/team1 is my local we

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Redirect to index.php/Main_Page invalidates url

2010-02-03 Thread Platonides
Philipp Lies wrote: > Platonides wrote: >> Don't embed the path in the server name. >> $wgServer='http://www.###.com'; >> $wgScriptPath='/team1/mediawiki'; > The problem is: > The root of my webserver is > $wgServer='http://www.###.com/team1'; > so /var/www of my apache is http://www.###.com/team1

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Redirect to index.php/Main_Page invalidates url

2010-02-03 Thread Philipp Lies
Platonides wrote: > Don't embed the path in the server name. > $wgServer='http://www.###.com'; > $wgScriptPath='/team1/mediawiki'; The problem is: The root of my webserver is $wgServer='http://www.###.com/team1'; so /var/www of my apache is http://www.###.com/team1 MediaWikis path relative to the a

Re: [Mediawiki-l] "File does not exist" error messages in Apache error log (Platonides)

2010-02-03 Thread Patricia Barden
On Feb 3, 2010, at 3:39 PM, mediawiki-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org wrote: > -- > > Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:14:39 +0100 > From: Platonides > Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] "File does not exist" error messages in > Apache error log > To: mediawiki-l@l

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Redirect to index.php/Main_Page invalidates url

2010-02-03 Thread Platonides
Philipp Lies wrote: >> That would be $wgServer, although if it's not there mediawiki will guess it. > And unfortunately it guessed wrong. > > Further, I set $wgServer in LocalSettings.php which fixed the redirecting > problem for the main page but some parts of MediaWiki seem to ignore this > va

Re: [Mediawiki-l] changing host name, login problem ?

2010-02-03 Thread Platonides
Hiram Clawson wrote: > Good Morning MediaWiki Fans: > > We have copied our wiki system to a new machine for a hardware > upgrade. It appears to work pretty much OK except for one > little glitch. A login appears to function, the appropriate > headers change on the page indicating your user name,

Re: [Mediawiki-l] what is wrong in "z"?

2010-02-03 Thread Platonides
Massimo Canonico wrote: > Hi, > I'm quite confuse about this error. If you go in this link: > http://dcs.di.unipmn.it/wiki/index.php/Param-sim#BoT_Size > > you can see the error:* > "Failed to parse (PNG conversion failed; * > > *check for correct installation of latex, dvips, gs, and convert): z

[Mediawiki-l] changing host name, login problem ?

2010-02-03 Thread Hiram Clawson
Good Morning MediaWiki Fans: We have copied our wiki system to a new machine for a hardware upgrade. It appears to work pretty much OK except for one little glitch. A login appears to function, the appropriate headers change on the page indicating your user name, but then, at the next click on a

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Redirect to index.php/Main_Page invalidates url

2010-02-03 Thread Philipp Lies
> That would be $wgServer, although if it's not there mediawiki will guess it. And unfortunately it guessed wrong. Further, I set $wgServer in LocalSettings.php which fixed the redirecting problem for the main page but some parts of MediaWiki seem to ignore this variable. $wgServer='http://www.#

[Mediawiki-l] what is wrong in "z"?

2010-02-03 Thread Massimo Canonico
Hi, I'm quite confuse about this error. If you go in this link: http://dcs.di.unipmn.it/wiki/index.php/Param-sim#BoT_Size you can see the error:* "Failed to parse (PNG conversion failed; * *check for correct installation of latex, dvips, gs, and convert): z*" What is surprise me most is that, if

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Redirect to index.php/Main_Page invalidates url

2010-02-03 Thread Platonides
Philipp Lies wrote: >> On LocalSettings.php you will have to $wgScriptPath (maybe also others >> that depend on it). > Thanks for the idea but no, thats not it. It's not the path which is wrong > but the *hostname*. > I enter into the browser: http://www.###.com/team1/mediawiki > I get redirecte

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Redirect to index.php/Main_Page invalidates url

2010-02-03 Thread Philipp Lies
Platonides wrote: > Philipp Lies wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have a problem with MediaWiki 1.15. Mediawiki is installed on server A >> which is an apache2 server. Accessing MediaWiki via: >> http://A/mediawiki >> works, the url is correctly redirected to >> http://A/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page >> >> N

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Redirect to index.php/Main_Page invalidates url

2010-02-03 Thread Platonides
Philipp Lies wrote: > Hi, > > I have a problem with MediaWiki 1.15. Mediawiki is installed on server A > which is an apache2 server. Accessing MediaWiki via: > http://A/mediawiki > works, the url is correctly redirected to > http://A/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page > > Now here is the problem. Ser

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Database Lost

2010-02-03 Thread Platonides
Juan Jesús Cremades Monserrat escribió: > Hi, > > I have a wiki and the database has been lost for an accident. Now, I > must create a new schema, but I don't know how attach this one to the > wiki to create the wikitables another time. Thanks! Reinstall mediawiki (rename LocalSettings.php so it

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Wikipedia mirror speedup

2010-02-03 Thread Platonides
Caching is an important part of mediawiki. Since you want to cache ecerything you may consider using http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:File_cache Of course, caching every article might not be completely feasible for you, since you are also tight on disk space. ___

Re: [Mediawiki-l] "File does not exist" error messages in Apache error log

2010-02-03 Thread Platonides
Patricia Barden wrote: >> You mean the file http://www.mywiki.org/skins/monobook/Opera6Fixes.css >> does not exist? It should. > The files do exist and they exist in the correct place but the > referring page can't find them. Can you load the file by writing the url directly in the browser bar?

[Mediawiki-l] Fwd: Clearing the mediawiki-database

2010-02-03 Thread Juan Jesús Cremades Monserrat
Hi! Platonides, I've read this mail and I have a similar problem. My wiki-database has been dropped by an acident. I created another one, but I don't know how execute the SQL sentences htat creates the schema another time... Thanks ___ MediaWiki-l mail

[Mediawiki-l] Database Lost

2010-02-03 Thread Juan Jesús Cremades Monserrat
Hi, I have a wiki and the database has been lost for an accident. Now, I must create a new schema, but I don't know how attach this one to the wiki to create the wikitables another time. Thanks! ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.o