On Monday 02 July 2007 12:04, Ken Irving wrote: > On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 09:19:15AM +0100, Nick Adie wrote: > > Hi > > > > I have installed MediaWiki 1.7 from the archive. > > > > The read me file is very confusing as it talks about a file that does not > > exist and a symbolic link that appears to have no relevence. > > > > Has anyone experience of the installation/set-up of MediaWiki, and if so > > could I have a few pointers please. > > I installed MediaWiki last week on a stable/etch system, and didn't seem > to have those problems. I did have some trouble with apache v1.3, ended up > removing it and installing apache v2; I'm not certain now that that was > really related to MediaWiki, though. My main confusion was in getting > mysql installed and (minimally) configured, but once I set the mysql root > password -- and gave it to the mediawiki installer -- the mediawiki > installation completed without more headaches. > > There's a note to the effect that (for some reason...) mediawiki has to > install under /var/lib/mediawiki1.7/, and that's where the wiki repository > is. > > There's a config/ directory in the repository, and that's where the > installation web page sits; once the installation is done that directory > can be deleted. > > I was a bit taken aback by a particular sentence in the install page, > related to the mysql configuration: > > This account will not be created if it pre-exists. If this is the > case, ensure that it has SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE permissions > on the MediaWiki database. > > "Pre-exists"? Is that different from "exists"? I think the "pre-" could > be omitted for the intended purpose. In any case, this refers to having > the mediawiki installer set up the database, for which it needs the db's > root password; if so inclined & able, you could "pre-" set this up and so > not need to hand over that root password. > > Maybe the confusion is here: > > To complete the installation, please do the following: > > 1. Move /var/lib/mediawiki1.7/config/LocalSettings.php to > /var/lib/mediawiki1.7/LocalSettings.php for normal install, > root of your install for multisite, with rights 640 > > There's presumably somem reason this isn't done automatically by the > installer, but here you're just relocating the setup script generated > by the installer. Somewhere else there's a suggestion to create a > symlink to this setup script into /etc/mediawiki1.7/; this just puts > the script into the more conventional /etc/ tree, which makes sense > -- not sure why this isn't done automatically, but maybe it has to do > with single- or multi-wiki sites... > > Hope this helps... > > Ken > > -- > Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- I had the same problem as Nick when I recently installed Mediawiki as a single user system on a etch box. I did something similar to Ken's suggestion, only I used syslinks (which were there but not properly connected) instead of moving the files. I did also have a disconnected syslink after I got MW working to AdminSettings.php. I have been unable to figure out what/where I should link this to. Any ideas? I have seen this problem only rarely and an explanation in the Readme file would be very helpful (hint,hint, to developer) Thanks!
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