Re: [MediaWiki-l] Mediawiki on a remote host questions

2013-10-12 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
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Re: [MediaWiki-l] Mediawiki on a remote host questions

2013-10-11 Thread John Foster
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Re: [MediaWiki-l] Mediawiki on a remote host questions

2013-10-11 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
> > > > > -Original Message- > > From: John Foster > > To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list < > mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org> > > Sent: Fri, Oct 11, 2013 9:38 am > > Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Mediawiki on a remote host quest

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Mediawiki on a remote host questions

2013-10-11 Thread John Foster
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Re: [MediaWiki-l] Mediawiki on a remote host questions

2013-10-11 Thread Wjhonson
a remote host questions Well as I said this is wierd. I tried opening the web site with the actual IP address and it all seems to work as far as the mediawiki starting the configuration process. Strange huh, Now I have the Godaddy DNS server set up to forward the name www.physicswiki.net to the IP

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Mediawiki on a remote host questions

2013-10-11 Thread John Foster
Well as I said this is wierd. I tried opening the web site with the actual IP address and it all seems to work as far as the mediawiki starting the configuration process. Strange huh, Now I have the Godaddy DNS server set up to forward the name www.physicswiki.net to the IP address mentioned, with

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Mediawiki on a remote host questions

2013-10-11 Thread John Foster
Aas I said, nothing happened. Th screen stayed exactly the same. I looked at the page source & it was OK, the instructions in the link were good, it said to go to the correct page and open the index.php file in /mw-config withing the mediawiki directory, just nothing happened. No error messages, na

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Mediawiki on a remote host questions

2013-10-11 Thread Alex Monk
Nothing happened? Did your browser not change pages? Did you get a blank screen? On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 5:18 AM, John W. Foster wrote: > As the title say, I just installed mediawiki 1.21.2 on a remotely hosted > VPS server. I got everything set up using the putty software, and the > remote serv

[MediaWiki-l] Mediawiki on a remote host questions

2013-10-10 Thread John W. Foster
As the title say, I just installed mediawiki 1.21.2 on a remotely hosted VPS server. I got everything set up using the putty software, and the remote server is a Debian 'squeeze' system, where I do have 'root' level access & can install what ever i need. First rattle out of the bag the mediawiki fi