This is so simple and showstopping it'll be something stupid on my part. We have a 1.13 installation. I tried setting up a test wiki with 1.16b2 on the same database ("techwiki") with a new table prefix ("testwiki_").
We have a user, "admin". I tried installing 1.16b2 and got error 1044, insufficient privileges. I did, per the mediawiki.org FAQ, as root: mysql> grant all privileges on techwiki to 'admin'@'%' identified by 'password'; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec) - and ran it again. I got (last lines of the install page): # Attempting to connect to database server as admin...success. # Connected to mysql 5.0.41; enabling MySQL 4.1/5.0 charset mode # Database techwiki exists # Creating tables... done. # Initializing statistics... A database query syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software. The last attempted database query was: SELECT user_id FROM `testwiki_user` WHERE user_name = 'WikiSysop' LIMIT 1 from within function "User::idForName". Database returned error "1146: Table 'techwiki.testwiki_user' doesn't exist (localhost)". Looking in the database, it has *not* created any tables, so "Creating tables... done." is untrue. So what silly thing haven't I done yet? - d. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l