Platonides,Sorry, I am just now seeing your response. I don't think it is a write access problem anymore. Since this is a wampserver stack I am using, I cross posted this at the wampserver forum: When setting up mediawiki, got this message:
"PHP is linked with old MySQL client libraries. If you are using a MySQL 4.1 server and have problems connecting to the database, see [dev.mysql.com] for help. Attempting to connect to database server as wikidb_user...failed due to authentication errors. Check passwords." If you follow the link you learn all about old and new passwords in MySQL since 4.1. But when I look at what is in wampserver, they are all 5+ so i shouldn't be having this problem at all. Someone suggested searching for my.ini outside of the wamp folder, but that came up empty. So I don't think there is some stray old mysql out there causing me problems. I created the wiki db and user myself in phpmyadmin, and the installation script was able to connect, but then I got this same old libraries error message again. And no, mw is definitely not installed. Thanks for your time and insights. --- On Mon, 3/28/11, Platonides <[email protected]> wrote: From: Platonides <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Install on Windows Problem To: [email protected] Date: Monday, March 28, 2011, 7:07 PM Nat Colley wrote: > I am trying to install MediaWiki on a windows machine (wamp) as a testing > server. As near as I can tell, all has gone right > with the download and installation of the wamp – php info comes up, for > example. But navigating to index.php gets me this: > > "* If you are reading this in your web > browser, your server is probably not configured correctly to run PHP > applications! " That points to php not working on your server. You need to fix it first. > Then the install.php comments say: > > "To run the install script, you'll need to temporarily make > the 'config' subdirectory writable by the web server. The simplest way to do > this on a Unix/Linux system is to make it world-writable: > > chmod a+w config > > Hop into your browser and surf into the wiki > directory." Are you also seeing > Setup has completed, your wiki is configured > Please delete the /config directory for extra security. > Can't write config file, aborting > To run the install script... > Checking environment... > Please include all of the lines below when reporting installation problems. > PHP " . htmlspecialchars( phpversion() ) . " installed etc. ? (a mixture of all possible messages given by the installer) Then it is a consequence of not having php enabled. Goto step 1. > Well, obviously I am not on unix or linux. Right > clicking on the config folder and going to properties tells me that this file > is read only, but if I uncheck the box it goes right back to being read only > anyway. I seem to remember that in Windows you have to go up to the highest > folder because all these properties are normally inherited downward. I did > that > all the way up to my drive itself, and it still doesn't stop them from being > read only. > > Your assistance, patience, and wisdom are greatly > appreciated. Thank you. If your issue is really with permissions writing the config folder, I would wait for 1.17rc1 (planned for this Friday) and install it. It uses a new installer that gives you LocalSettings.php for download instead of writing it itself. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
