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Our mediawiki was installed December 2006 on Mandrake 10 from a manual mediawiki 1.5.2 php 4.3.8 mysql 4.0.20
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Feb 2012:
needed another permission/owner reset. And again on March 9, as centos 5.8 was installed. The typical error message you get is:
Sorry! We could not process your edit due to a loss of session data. Please try again. If it still does not work, try logging out and logging back in.
Mar 2011:
Upload option enabled, prompted by the N1333 project. And, whatever happened to our icon on the top left corner.... it disappeared during one of the upgrades.
I'm totally sick of wiki spammers now. i guess it defeats the purpose to lock it up, but if you want to open a new account with us, email me, and I'll change the permissions so you can make an account. By default we now use:
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false; $wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false;
The procedure is:
cd /chara/bimawww/bima/mediawiki-1.14.1 cp LocalSettings.php.1 LocalSettings.php <<create-account>> cp LocalSettings.php.0 LocalSettings.php
Feb 2011:
needed to chmod/chgrp again, no idea why. possibly system change.
June 2010: updated to Centos 5.5
mysql 5.0.77 php 5.1.6
Needed to chmod/chgrp again, as for 5.3
March 2010: updated to mediawiki 1.14.1 and fix system permissions
System must have been updated, as the permission on /var/lib/php had been reset.... Apart from upgrading to version 1.14.1 this was the system fix:
chmod 733 /var/lib/php chgrp wwwserv /var/lib/php/session/ /etc/init.d/httpd restart
June 2009: updated to Centos 5.3
mediawiki 14.0 mysql 5.0.45 php 5.1.6 The weird things needed were:
chmod 733 /var/lib/php chgrp wwwserv /var/lib/php/session
in addition to the ever so confusion having to set the super user button in the form, despite that we use the special root's password for mysql. Also needed to reset the $wgEmailConfirmToEdit = true; otherwise anybody can edit pages.
Had to delete several hacker accounts, as well as their 'consumer links'. People do anything for money. Will this ever stop?
November 2009:
once again had to re-install. But this time took a shortcut. mysql was created with an account and database after it was populated. Here's a brief summary of the commands:
First dump the mediawiki mysql database on the old machine:
old% mysqldump -u root -p --opt bimawikidb > /tmp/backup-file.sql
Then on the new machine setup a new user in mysql:
new% mysql -u root -p mysql> create database bimawikidb; mysql> use bimawikidb; mysql> create user 'wikiuser'@'localhost' identified by 'xxxxxx'; mysql> grant all on *.* to 'wikiuser'@'localhost'; mysql> quit
then confirm it works:
new% mysql -u wikiuser -p bimawikidb
Finally load it into mysql:
new% mysql -u root -p bimawikidb < /tmp/backup-file.sql
