[gentoo-user] Mediawiki

[gentoo-user] Mediawiki

[Sergio Polini]

I can't install Mediawiki 1.4.15.
I've installed:
a) apache 2.0.55-r1
b) dev-lang/php 5.1.2 (current flags in /etc/portage/package.use: dba 
gd -gd-external pcre mysql mysqli session)
c) mysql 4.1.14-r1

I got the error "Specified key was too long; max key length is 1000 
bytes" when creating the categorylinks table, so I've esecuted
"ALTER DATABASE wikidb DEFAULT CHARACTER SET latin1 COLLATE 
latin1_general_ci".

Then I got the error "Sorry! The wiki is experiencing some technical 
difficulties, and cannot contact the database server".
As far I can understand, this happens because of the new password 
algorithm in mysql 4.1+, so I've remerged dev-lang/php with the 
"mysqli" flag, but I still get the same error.

Does anybody know how to get mediawiki installed?

Thanks
Sergio
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Re: [gentoo-user] Mediawiki

[Ric de France]

Hi Sergio,

On 4/22/06, Sergio Polini <sp_rm_it@yahoo.it> wrote:
> Then I got the error "Sorry! The wiki is experiencing some technical
> difficulties, and cannot contact the database server".
> As far I can understand, this happens because of the new password
> algorithm in mysql 4.1+, so I've remerged dev-lang/php with the
> "mysqli" flag, but I still get the same error.

>From what I remember, I think I got something similar to you... what I
think I did was:
a) Start up mysql - something like: /etc/init.d/mysql start
b) Check to see if the encryption level you're using is correct -
Mediawiki was written in an older version of PHP, and does not use the
same authentication as the latest and greatest of mysql. In
/etc/mysql/my.cnf add the line "old_passwords" to the file in the
"[mysqld]" section... it seemed to make it work...
c) Check: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Running_MediaWiki_on_Gentoo_Linux
- this page is a little out of date. If you use PHP5, you don't need
mod_php (well I didn't)...

HTH,

...Ric

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Re: [gentoo-user] Mediawiki

[Sergio Polini]

Ric de France:
> Hi Sergio,
>
> On 4/22/06, Sergio Polini <sp_rm_it@yahoo.it> wrote:
> > Then I got the error "Sorry! The wiki is experiencing some
> > technical difficulties, and cannot contact the database server".
> > As far I can understand, this happens because of the new password
> > algorithm in mysql 4.1+, so I've remerged dev-lang/php with the
> > "mysqli" flag, but I still get the same error.
>
> From what I remember, I think I got something similar to you...
> what I think I did was:
> a) Start up mysql - something like: /etc/init.d/mysql start
> b) Check to see if the encryption level you're using is correct -
> Mediawiki was written in an older version of PHP, and does not use
> the same authentication as the latest and greatest of mysql. In
> /etc/mysql/my.cnf add the line "old_passwords" to the file in the
> "[mysqld]" section... it seemed to make it work...
> c) Check:
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Running_MediaWiki_on_Gentoo_Lin
>ux - this page is a little out of date. If you use PHP5, you don't
> need mod_php (well I didn't)...

Thanks! As soon as possibile, I'll give Mediawiki another try ;-)

Sergio


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