Project:Support desk

I'll check. Thank you!

84.204.22.130‎

I have the same problem as topicstarter. However i've already checked $wgRawHtml, that did not work. May be someone could advise something else? Thank you in advance!

84.204.22.130‎

SUBJ1

hello!

nike free‎

I have fixed this error. It turns out that my PHP's session folder wasn't writable. The issue was that I couldn't see this folder via FTP and I needed to login via root SSH access to fix it. All is good now.

Mases (talk)‎

This also fixed my problem - thank you for sharing.

Ade.

66.83.172.114‎

I can't find the PHP session file anywhere. I even connected we SSH as per your recommendation... where is it?

71.57.105.241‎

It depends on your server. You can find it with the following command:

$ php -r 'echo ini_get("session.save_path"),"\n";'

☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣‎

Is it possible to search within attached documents?

I want to create a Wiki page and have an attachment to that article (word, visio, excel, notepad++, etc.). I then went to be able to use the Search feature to be able to search for data not only within the Wiki page, but also for data within the attachment. I have yet to see any information or extensions regarding this search feature. Is this possible?

74.11.231.98‎

While Extension:FileIndexer claims to be able to, but it appears to have quite a few issues, so I can't reccomend it.

bugzilla:21061 is the bug to make uploaded files searchable in core. Its one of those long-term we-really-should-do-it-but-is-rather-low-priority-so-no-one-ever-does issues (in my opinion anyways).

Bawolff (talk)‎

Extension:FileIndexer has now even be deleted. We would need an uploaded file indexing functionality very urgently. Who could implement this?

G.Hagedorn (talk)‎

Just a sidenote: Some of the aforementioned formats are binary data (e.g. older Microsoft Word files) so extracting the text for those formats would require quite some efforts.

http://bigotry.sashaweb.net

Category Gallery

I'm looking for an extension to mediawiki that extends the gallery with an attribute taking specific category images on update. This to simply retag the image to move it to another tag.

Today the example of gallery is:

File:Example.jpg

</gallery>

The extension takes a category tag in the gallery that looks for all images with that category. f.e:

will list all images that is tagged with category sunflowers.

83.253.128.184‎

Problem after moving Bigotry Wiki with SQLite

Bigotry Wiki uses SQLite for the db from when it was at GoDaddy which charged for better plans to create more databases. I moved it to a new server and it gets an error.

It's the same files and database, no error. I've also changed the SQLite db path to the new location. I followed the directions at SQLite and used sudo apt-get install php5-sqlite for Ubuntu. I didn't see the extension=php_pdo_sqlite.so line in /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini, but I added the lines under the SQLite section and restarted Apache2, but it still doesn't work. I don't know if there's a php_pdo_sqlite.so file or where it would be. I have found these files:

/etc/php5/conf.d/20-pdo_sqlite.ini
/etc/php5/conf.d/mcrypt.ini
/etc/php5/conf.d/20-gd.ini
/etc/php5/conf.d/20-sqlite3.ini
/etc/php5/conf.d/10-pdo.ini
/etc/php5/conf.d/20-mysql.ini
/etc/php5/conf.d/20-pdo_mysql.ini
/etc/php5/conf.d/20-mysqli.ini
/etc/php5/mods-available/pdo_sqlite.ini
/etc/php5/mods-available/mysqli.ini
/etc/php5/mods-available/pdo.ini
/etc/php5/mods-available/gd.ini
/etc/php5/mods-available/sqlite3.ini
/etc/php5/mods-available/pdo_mysql.ini
/etc/php5/mods-available/mysql.ini

This is also one of the errors:

Error: 8 attempt to write a readonly database

I set the database directory to chmod a+rw

ఠ_ఠ Inquisitor Sasha Ehrenstein des Sturmkrieg Sector (Talk) (Contr)‎

Does PHP say that SQlite would be available as database?

88.130.105.232‎

Is that in phpinfo()?

ఠ_ఠ Inquisitor Sasha Ehrenstein des Sturmkrieg Sector (Talk) (Contr)‎

Yes, you can check the SQLite and PDO_SQLite library versions there.

88.130.105.232‎

SQLite3 and PDO_SQLite are listed there.

ఠ_ఠ Inquisitor Sasha Ehrenstein des Sturmkrieg Sector (Talk) (Contr)‎

It's up after I changed the file permissions of the database. However, the create box on the main page displays weird and doesn't work for some reason.

ఠ_ఠ Inquisitor Sasha Ehrenstein des Sturmkrieg Sector (Talk) (Contr)‎

Not a fix, but I replaced it with InputBox, which seems to work.

ఠ_ఠ Inquisitor Sasha Ehrenstein des Sturmkrieg Sector (Talk) (Contr)‎

[RESOLVED] Short URL help please

Hello,

I've followed the tutorial, but am confused on one part.

My wiki is - http://wiki.smartenit.com/index.php?title=Main_Page and if you click the Main Page link, you'll see it goes to the short URL, but I have a 404 error.

I ran the wizard and it made it say wiki.smartenit.com/wiki/Main_Page...so I didn't want wiki in there twice, since I already have "wiki" as the subdomain, so I just modified the script in localsettings to be $wgArticlePath = "/$1";

Now, I don't know what to do to not get the 404 error.

Thanks for your help!

Since, I'm not able to edit the post I did...I wanted to add that I only have everything in a "wiki" folder currently, and don't understand why I would need everything in a "w" folder, or if I really do. That's one part I don't understand in the tutorial.

Ok...so reading further, I see that setting the directory as "w" or anything other than "wiki" is advisable, but it seems to be if the URL is going to be domain/wiki/Main_Page...if I have a subdomain set up, I don't know if this works the same.

Could you post your .htaccess file here? Maybe we'll spot a problem.

One of the reasons that the tutorial says to use /w for the files and /wiki for the wiki so that you can have wiki pages named anything you like, including "Index.php".

Anything could be used instead of /wiki as long as it matches what you put in your LocalSettings.php.

☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣‎

Thanks Mark,

Here is my htaccess code:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/?wiki(/.*)?$ %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/index.php [L]

RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_URI} !-f
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_URI} !-d
RewriteRule ^/?images/thumb/[0-9a-f]/[0-9a-f][0-9a-f]/([^/]+)/([0-9]+)px-.*$ %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/thumb.php?f=$1&width=$2 [L,QSA,B]

RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_URI} !-f
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_URI} !-d
RewriteRule ^/?images/thumb/archive/[0-9a-f]/[0-9a-f][0-9a-f]/([^/]+)/([0-9]+)px-.*$ %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/thumb.php?f=$1&width=$2&archived=1 [L,QSA,B]

Try this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^/?wiki/(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L,QSA]

(This doesn't take care of the last two bits, but maybe we can get those next.)

This will also require that the you have the (something like) the following in your LocalSettings.php:

$wgArticlePath      = "/$1";
$wgUsePathInfo = true;

☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣‎

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talk page suggestion for mw

hi I would like to suggest the talk page has a new design I would like to suggest that when someone clicks add topic and puts there topic title and the comment and click on submit and the comment would be at the bottom of the page instead could it be at the top of the page so it is easer for people to help people how about including the liquid discussion extension into the core and cite extension into core and parser function into core and wikieditor extension into core and diff extension into core please

How about some punctuation marks? Maybe you can rephrase your question.

what I mean is could someone add extension wikieditor, cite, vector, parserfunction, mwsearch and diff to the core because they seem to be more important to be an extension so why not put it into the core of mediawiki and to redo the talk page by instead of it show old to new changing it new to old would be helpful to people who want to help other but have to go to the bottom to find the latest comment

It would make more sense for new messages to appear at the top, but I don't see a change like that being implemented. You would probably need to make an extension.

ఠ_ఠ Inquisitor Sasha Ehrenstein des Sturmkrieg Sector (Talk) (Contr)‎

wikibase download git

hi please could some one upload a new file to git because I downloaded the file a few weeks ago and there were more files and was working downloaded it today and some files arnt there and there are issues because the old git website and all the files were moved to the new git I think that the new git has the old files instead of the new files because datamodel isent there I downloaded it through the master instead of the other rel_21 and 20 I am running 1.22 wmf8

I am getting this error with the file I downloaded today Fatal error: Class 'Wikibase\EntityId' not found in /home/u293717925/public_html/extensions/Wikibase/lib/WikibaseLib.php on line 164

because the old files arnt working I thought that you would have updated the files for master but they wernmt working with 1.22 wmf 8 so please could you upload a new version of the file to git the new git

the file master has been token off wikibase download now could someone please upload the new file to master thanks

could someone upload a differnet file of master for wikibase and upload a different master file of wikibase because the other worked well with quary and datamodel files included too

I am uploading the file that works to https://sourceforge.net/projects/wikibase/files/ please add it to your git so we can download it please through master

http://appcentral:8587/mw-config/index.php

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[RESOLVED] Post 1.19 -> 1.21 upgrade: Nested table formatting fail

Hello, I just executed the upgrade from 1.19 to 1.21 (on windows) at a customer site. The process was flawless, however the one casualty of the process seems to be that the wikitable styling does not get applied to nested tables.

The following code sample rendered nicely before the upgrade:

Linked Table(s) Information

Name

Type

Source

Details

Index Control

Linked

C:\somefolder\some.file

This table stores information which is used by the application.

Database Table Information (with sample data)
Day No.	Day Name	Run Index: [Y/N]
1	Sunday	N
3	Tuesday	Y

Is it possible that I missed updating an extension or something? It does not appear that the base installation was modified to include any custom, or updated extensions prior to performing the upgrade.

Any assistance is appreciated. Thanks !

PaysonSolutions (talk)‎

Works for me after fixing the code. You had a ", table centered" after class="wikitable" on the inner table, which is bad syntax. Maybe it was somehow allowed on previous versions.

Linked Table(s) Information

Name

Type

Source

Details

Index Control

Linked

C:\somefolder\some.file

This table stores information which is used by the application.

Database Table Information (with sample data)
Day No.	Day Name	Run Index: [Y/N]
1	Sunday	N
3	Tuesday	Y

Ciencia Al Poder (talk)‎

Yes, I discovered that comma as well. I came back to check this article, and to post my solution.

Funny that it worked under an earlier release.

Thanks for the help !

PaysonSolutions (talk)‎

[RESOLVED] PHP Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in \includes\HttpFunctions.php on line 693

Hey, I recently kept getting this error message when I am editing a page.

PHP Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in \includes\HttpFunctions.php on line 693

This have never happened to me before. And the server resources are pretty much free. e.g: CPU usage low, Memory usage low as well.

I can create a page without any problems, but I somehow can't edit a page.

I can't seem to find the reason causing this.

any help will be appreciated.

Lnasterio (talk)‎

Are you on a shared server? Did you recently install any extensions?

☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣‎

It's my own server, I recently modified the "Vector" skin. just to add Google Analysis codes.

After few tests, I found that the error will only occur when the page name contain "DATA/" this seem to be causing the problem.

any page without it, works perfectly fine.

Lnasterio (talk)‎

Is the wiki public? Could you give us a URL so we can see this problem in action?

☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣‎

If you can easily reproduce the problem (as it seems it happens when pagename contains DATA/), try disabling all extensions to see if one of them is causing the problem, and/or undo your changes to the Vector skin, to try to isolate the problem and see if the problem comes from any of the extensions.

Ciencia Al Poder (talk)‎

I found the problem, it appears to be caused by my analytical scripts written inside the vector skin. For some reason, wiki has to load up the skin before submission of each edit. Since I was having trouble connecting to the analytical site. That's why vector fails to load up completely, thus in the end causing me unable to submit edit. PS: because my DATA pages contain more information than other, that's why only these pages causes problem. Although problem is solved, however, I think this should be considered as a bug. "Load vector skin before submission" this logic in the program may cause more trouble in the future.

Lnasterio (talk)‎

Mediawiki database size problem

Hi.

My viki database is 1.6GB. This is a problem? "Objectcache" table is 1.4gb, how it works this table? How i minimize "objectcache" table?

Thank you for answers.

78.160.13.117‎

Hi!

No, generally such a size is not a problem. MySQL and PHP can handle that. However, you might want to make certain settings especially in MySQL to keep things running fast.

For example the objectcache table contains only temporary data. You can manually purge this table, so that it is empty again. After that the objectcache needs some time until it is filled again. However, when a row in that table has expired, it should normally be removed from the table automatically. Is this not the case for you?

Another thing I notice: Your DB without the cache is 200MB of size. The cache is 1.2GB - this ratio does not seem very efficient. Is the cache used properly at all? To me it seems like hundreds of rows might just be inserted, but never again used - and instead new rows are being inserted. Things are cached, but MediaWiki might for some reason think, that they are not reusable so that pages are rendered uncached again and again.

88.130.105.232‎

wikibase extension

hi how do I add links to my website because when I create item and then click add item and then it says add the site id and site link how do I add my site link because it is only letting me use the en Wikipedia site link not mine I would like to know how can I add my site Id

5.66.159.208‎

It only allows me to use enwiki as the database which means it is using wikiepdia database I would like it to use mine how do I do that

90.219.95.119‎

How do I add geo-coordinates to a wiki page?

I want to add geographic coordinates to my wiki page so that it shows geo-coordinates like the top right corner of this wiki page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Wall_Centre

Can someone verify how I do this? Do I need to use a template called Template:Coord and install the Scribunto extension? And then when add this on my wiki page: {{coord|40.744924|-74.006943|display=it}} I should see the coordinate link right?

I'm also curious how I get the globe and map at the top right corner? I believe this requires WikiMiniAtlas but I'm not sure if I can just pull the map from Wikimedia's main WikiMiniAtlas server or if I have to host the wikiminiatlas on my own server. Thanks for your help.

Peter321 (talk)‎

It should work if you import that template and all its dependencies and install Scribunto. You'll have to ask User:Magnus Manske and User:Kolossos since they manage that service, but given that they are volunteers providing a free service using resources provided by the Wikimedia Foundation, I don't think they'll mind.

☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣‎

Thanks for the info Mark. I will ask Magnus and Kolossos. Do you know if I have to run Scribunto in conjunction with the WikiMiniAtlas javascript files in order to get the globe icon and drop-down map?

Backto1992 (talk)‎

I do not. Magnus probably will.

☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣‎

Why does new MediaWiki installation stop?

I am trying to install a new MediaWiki installation. I can reach the index.php page and get the following page:

MediaWiki 1.21.1

LocalSettings.php not found.

Please set up the wiki first.

When I click on the Please set up the wiki first. hyperlink,

This is the URL, which is correct.

The page stays blank, and nothing happens. What should I check to see what is going wrong. This is a fresh, clean installation. There is no existing MySQL DB for the wiki.

Here are my versions:

   Server version: Apache/2.2.15 (Unix)
   Server built:   May 13 2013 22:11:16
   
   PHP 5.3.3 (cli) (built: Feb 22 2013 02:51:11) 
   Copyright (c) 1997-2010 The PHP Group
   Zend Engine v2.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2010 Zend Technologies
   
   MediaWiki 1.21.1

`mysql Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.1.69, for redhat-linux-gnu (x86_64) using readline 5.1`

Charles M Norton Municipal Programmer (talk)‎

You probably need to install the php-xml package.

☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣‎

Thanks. That fixed it.

Charles M Norton Municipal Programmer (talk)‎

I have this exact same problem except that I already have php-xml installed...

Package php-xml-5.4.16-1.fc18.x86_64 already installed and latest version Nothing to do

What do I do? I can't find a file named LocalSettings.php anywhere...

166.70.121.31‎

Did you restart Apache?

For the records, this is filed as https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42205 in the bug database.

Is it possible to redirect external links from https to http?

I have a self signed SSL certificate for using with PHPmyAdmin and email, and I'd like to provide it as an option for MW users who understand the warning it generates and who would like to use the security it provides. The problem is that such users would copy links that are https, which would trigger warnings for anyone using them. Is there a way that https links from external domains can be redirected to http?

ఠ_ఠ Inquisitor Sasha Ehrenstein des Sturmkrieg Sector (Talk) (Contr)‎

E.g. via .htaccess or in the server config.

With .htaccess

ఠ_ఠ Inquisitor Sasha Ehrenstein des Sturmkrieg Sector (Talk) (Contr)‎

Wiki is getting 500 error after server move [RESOLVED]

http://www.sturmkrieg.us

I added the files and the database, and set new connection settings for the new database after moving from GoDaddy shared hosting to a VPS server. The wiki is getting a 500 error, but seems to be working since going to the domain seems to bring up the name of the main page in the URL. I suspect maybe this is a PHP error and it's just not displaying the file and line with the error.

ఠ_ఠ Inquisitor Sasha Ehrenstein des Sturmkrieg Sector (Talk) (Contr)‎

So, when you already presume that its a PHP error, why don't you activate error logging and look it up?

I just enabled it with

display_errors = On error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_DEPRECATED & ~E_STRICT

I got this:

Notice: Use of undefined constant NS_FORUM - assumed 'NS_FORUM' in /home/sasha/web_servers/sturmkrieg.us/www/LocalSettings.php on line 307

Notice: Use of undefined constant NS_FORUM_TALK - assumed 'NS_FORUM_TALK' in /home/sasha/web_servers/sturmkrieg.us/www/LocalSettings.php on line 308

Fatal error: Smarty error: unable to write to $compile_dir '/home/sasha/web_servers/sturmkrieg.us/www/extensions/Widgets/compiled_templates'. Be sure $compile_dir is writable by the web server user. in /home/sasha/web_servers/sturmkrieg.us/www/extensions/Widgets/smarty/Smarty.class.php on line 1095

ఠ_ఠ Inquisitor Sasha Ehrenstein des Sturmkrieg Sector (Talk) (Contr)‎

I just set the compiled templates directory to writable by the web server as instructed by Extension:Widgets and the wiki displays now, although not totally correctly and it still displays the errors about forum namespace protection lines at the top of the page.

This is the code from LocalSettings.php:

# ----------Banned from forum settings-----------

$wgNamespaceProtection[NS_FORUM]      = array( 'forum-edit' );
$wgNamespaceProtection[NS_FORUM_TALK]      = array( 'forum-talk-edit' );

$wgGroupPermissions ['user']['forum-edit'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions ['user']['forum-talk-edit'] = true;

$wgRevokePermissions ['forumban']['forum-edit'] = true;
$wgRevokePermissions ['forumban']['forum-talk-edit'] = true;

The two namespace protection lines are 307 and 308.

ఠ_ఠ Inquisitor Sasha Ehrenstein des Sturmkrieg Sector (Talk) (Contr)‎

You have to define the constants, which you use for your custom namespaces, before you actually use them.

How do I do that? Sorry, I didn't have this problem before, or maybe the error reporting settings just didn't display what was happening.

ఠ_ఠ Inquisitor Sasha Ehrenstein des Sturmkrieg Sector (Talk) (Contr)‎

error reporting tells you all: You are using a constant without having defined it before. Just define namespace and a number for it:

define('NS_FORUM', 100);
define('NS_FORUM_TALK', 101);

That is all.

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wfLoadExtensionMessages() removed from 1.21.1?

My web host recently prompted me to upgrade to MW 1.21.1, so I did. Now several of my pages are broken. The error message is:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function wfLoadExtensionMessages() in [path to one of my installed extensions]

Was this function removed, or do I just need to re-enable it somehow?

70.176.119.200‎

You need to upgrade your extensions, too.

☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣‎

The extension that's giving me problems isn't very well maintained. I've fixed a few bugs in it myself, and I'm probably capable of fixing this. But in order to do so, I need to know why wfLoadExtensionMessages() was removed, and what replaced it.

70.176.119.200‎

You may simply remove the call to wfLoadExtensionMessages() and it will continue to work, you don't need to replace it by something else.

IAlex (talk)‎

I have the same problem. This may fix the problem, but it doesn't answer Mark's question.

Nick

109.238.67.2‎

It was removed. wfLoadExtensionMessages() used to load messages from the given extension so that they could be used. Since the addition of the "localisation cache" in 1.16 messages are always loaded and thus calling wfLoadExtensionMessages() was useless (for more details see r52503).

That was the point of the last part of my previous post.

IAlex (talk)‎

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Thanks for the info, it helped me out too.

Pchestek (talk)‎

centralauth

hi how can I add my doamins for wikis so that people who register for global account on differnent wikis can look at what projects they are on

90.218.233.184‎

You might also want to ask at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:CentralAuth and use punctuation to make your comments more readable.