On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Patricia Barden <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi all: > > I recently upgraded our wiki from 1.8.2 to 1.15.1 and, since the > upgrade, the site has been white-screening at various times. Our > hosting provider suggested this morning that there may be a > compatibility bug between the new site code and APC. He said that PHP > scripts were being called, but were not generating any output. He > restarted Apache and, since then, pages seem to be loading normally. > > If you encounter white-screening in the future, check your webserver's error logs or enable the display of PHP errors < http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_debug#PHP_errors>. So, this made me curious about what PHP accelerator is recommended / > used by MediaWiki.org -- eAccelerator, mmTurck, or APC? > eAccelerator and APC are both fine. XCache is also an option. Wikimedia projects use APC. mmTurck should be considered deprecated (support for it is gone in the new-installer branch of MediaWiki). An article on MediaWiki.org says that, "[d]epending on the cache and > options used, you may have to perform a special operation whenever > updating script files." Can someone tell me what "special operation" > means? > For APC, this is probably referring to apc.stat: if it's set to 0 (it defaults to 1), you need to restart the webserver for changes to files to take effect. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
