On 2018-07-08 17:53, Sharon Kimble wrote:
mick crane <mick.cr...@gmail.com> writes:
On 2018-07-08 08:53, Sharon Kimble wrote:
I'm unable to get mediawiki from the repos working as it is
consistently
failing at accessing the database as part of its configuration at the
beginning. I say 'consistently' as the same problem has occurred when
trying to install mediawiki from source, and this is a clean fresh
install so I think that it must be something in my /home because it
is a
completely new fresh install. But what?
Can anyone give me some guidance here please, as I've been looking in
my
/home for anything 'mariadb' or 'mysql'-like but without any success.
When I input my database details into
'http://localhost/mediawiki/mw-config/index.php?page=DBConnect' I get
an
error message saying -
╭────
│DB connection error: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost'
(localhost).
│
│Check the host, username and password and try again.
╰────
To my thinking, its obviously comparing what I'm inputting into
something, and deciding that they don't match, so therefore giving me
an
error message. But what is it comparing to?
Thanks
Sharon.
I don't know what error you get if mysqld is not running but best see
if it is
"ps ax | grep mysql"
mick
Thanks for replying Mick.
This is what I get using a slightly better command than yours (you
missed out the 'u' in aux :)
a u x are options
╭────
│$ ps aux | grep mysql
│mysql 962 0.0 0.0 698580 65656 ? Ssl Jul07 0:59
/usr/sbin/mysqld
╰────
Which is about right as I rebooted yesterday.
And I've just checked and I'm still not able to get past the 'Connect
to
database' page in the mediawiki setup process.
I dunno what you've done or what mediawiki setup does, I think I might
have installed it once for curiosity.
I know little about mediawiki what I would do is look about for handy
mysql commands so you can see what is what.
believe you can logon from system root to the root mysql account without
a password and have a look what users and databases there are
I'd probably do that and delete any mediawiki database and mediawiki
users, create new ones with passwords I write down and input that to the
mediawiki setup.
What I'm uncertain about is changing the mysql root password if I might
have told other things what it is.
mick
Thanks
Sharon.
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