+1 on this. I've found MediaWIki on anything other than Linux (I've also tried FreeBSD and Solaris) is something you can get to work eventually, but you're fighting an uphill battle.
(The good bit in Linuxes compared to other Unixes is that they usually have excellent dependency resolution. Tracking down all the bits on sunfreeware to get rsvg to work on Solaris was ... interesting.) On 16 February 2015 at 22:32, Tim Starling <[email protected]> wrote: > Valid reasons for using MediaWiki on Windows in this way are either: > > * Your boss is making you do it, or > * You want a fun and difficult technical challenge. > > Or preferably both. If neither apply, you should probably look at the > various ways of getting access to Linux, such as > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki-Vagrant > http://aws.amazon.com/free/ > http://www.hostgator.com/apps/wiki-hosting > > -- Tim Starling > > On 16/02/15 18:49, Brenton Horne wrote: >> So how do I implement these changes on my PC? I am a noob when it comes to >> MediaWiki and PHP, so simple step-by-step instructions would be much >> appreciated. >> >> On 16 February 2015 at 16:13, Tim Starling <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> There is >>> >>> https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/125573/ >>> >>> It doesn't look too hacky to me, and it was rebased just a few months >>> ago. Considering who the author is, it probably works. Note that >>> img_auth.php needs to be used. There is an article about img_auth.php >>> here: >>> >>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Image_Authorization >>> >>> On Bugzilla there are a lot of suggestions to use iconv() to convert >>> to some random 8-bit character set, which doesn't seem like a great >>> idea to me. >>> >>> I find it somewhat ironic that it's necessary to encode to ASCII on >>> Windows, given that the Windows has been natively UCS-2/UTF-16 since >>> the introduction of the Win32 API, whereas Linux has never had proper >>> character set support. >>> >>> -- Tim Starling >>> >>> On 14/02/15 15:15, Arcane 21 wrote: >>>> There is an extremely hacky fix that is not recommend somewhere on >>>> Bugzilla/Phabricator, but otherwise, no. >>>> >>>> This issue does not affect Linux or Mac users, but is unsolvable on >>>> Windows aside from that hacky fix (which is a pain to set up and >>>> can corrupt the database if I recall right). >>>> >>>>> Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 13:40:36 +1000 From: >>>>> [email protected] To: [email protected] >>>>> Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Enabling special character file names >>>>> >>>>> Yeah I'm running Windows. So I'm guessing there's no known way >>>>> of overcoming this issue? >>>>> >>>>> On 14 February 2015 at 13:34, Arcane 21 <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Small correction to previous message: Windows. >>>>>> >>>>>> From what I understand, Windows based systems have trouble >>>>>> parsing certain characters when MediaWiki is run on a WAMP >>>>>> stack due to the Windows settings for saving filenames. >>>>>> >>>>>> From: [email protected] To: [email protected] >>>>>> Subject: RE: [MediaWiki-l] Enabling special character file >>>>>> names Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 21:32:58 -0600 >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Is your web stack on a Wnodws based system? If so, they have >>>>>> known issues with special character file names. >>>>>> >>>>>>> Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 13:12:35 +1000 From: >>>>>>> [email protected] To: [email protected] >>>>>>> Subject: [MediaWiki-l] Enabling special character file names >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Hi >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I'd like to allow special characters in file names on my >>>>>>> Wiki. For >>>>>> example, >>>>>>> currently I'd like some file names to include Greek letters >>>>>>> like alpha >>>>>> and >>>>>>> beta. In order to avoid being accused of using this list as >>>>>>> my personal "Google" I am giving you the details of all my >>>>>>> searches of Google and Wikimedia sites. I have checked >>>>>>> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T3780 >>>>>> but >>>>>>> I couldn't see any solutions to this problem. I was going to >>>>>>> try https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T3780#60419 but after I >>>>>>> searched SpecialUpload.php I did not find anywhere in the >>>>>>> file with >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> if( $this->saveUploadedFile( >>>>>>> >>>>>>> in it, hence I couldn't even give it a try (granted that >>>>>>> posted made >>>>>> almost >>>>>>> 8 years ago). >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I also found https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/FileBackend after >>>>>>> searching >>>>>> for >>>>>>> FileBackend, as it was a popular topic in this thread, in a >>>>>>> MediaWiki search but I hadn't the foggiest how it applied to >>>>>>> what I wanted. I also saw >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4138705/mediawiki-special-characters-in-file-name-issue >>>>>>> >>>>>> but I haven't a clue what the accepted answer meant for me. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Thanks for your time, Brenton >>>>>>> _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l >>>>>>> mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: >>>>>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l >>>>>> mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: >>>>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l >>>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l >>>>> mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: >>>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l >>>> _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l >>>> mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> MediaWiki-l mailing list >>> To unsubscribe, go to: >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> MediaWiki-l mailing list >> To unsubscribe, go to: >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > To unsubscribe, go to: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
