Brian, Thank you for the reply.
Yes, I know that v1.25 is out of date and needs to be upgraded. I'll tackle that once I get it migrated over to a new environment. The original environment *WAS *an XAMPP and was installed as a Bitnami package. Because of security vulnerabilities, the entire environment needs to be upgraded. But because I used XAMPP, I can't upgrade Apache, or MySQL or PHP. I would have to wipe out the entire install and do a fresh install. That is not acceptable, so I decided to do what I should have done the first time, install Apache, MySQL, PHP and Mediawiki as individual components. Even though I was successful at accessing the database from the command line, and verifying the contents, I decided to change the password and tried the wiki site again. This time I received an error saying that it could not find the front page. This is actually a step forward. This is telling me that it connected to the database. So now I'm facing path issues. The intitial install was "/opt/lampp/apps/mediawiki/htdocs". The new path is "/var/www/html". After changing the database password, I got the following URL: "<FQDN>/mediawiki/Main_Page". I looked in LocalSettings.php and saw that "$wgArticlePath" was set to "/mediawiki/$1". I removed "mediawiki" from the path, stop/started Apache, but now I get "<FQDN>/Main_Page" in the url bar, and "The requested URL /Main_Page was not found on this server". Looking a little deeper, I see "$wgScriptPath" set to "/mediawiki". I know that isn't correct, so I changed it ".". I didn't know if that would work or not. Apparently not. There is still a path issue somewhere, but I'm not sure where. I know that in the database I saw ""/opt/lampp/apps/mediawiki", but I don't want to start changing paths in the database until I know that I can at least bring up the main page. If there is a path in the database that I need to change, please let me know where to look. Thank you. Daryl On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 1:00 AM, Brian Wolff <[email protected]> wrote: > First of all, Mediawiki 1.25 is out of date and has publically known > security vulnerabilities. You should upgrade. > > For the error, I would start by checking $wgDBServer. If your db is on the > same host as mediawiki and commandline is working, it could be something > like using network vs local socket. If 'localhost' is not working try > '127.0.0.1' instead (or vice versa) > > Beyond that, I would look into if there is anything preventing mediawiki > from talking to the db (e.g. firewall, selinux, etc) > > -- > bawolff > > On Friday, November 17, 2017, Daryl Rose <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I just moved an existing environment from a SLES 11 SP4 xampp/Bitnami > > installation to a CentOS 7.4, Apache, MySQL, PHP environment. There were > > security issues with the original installation, so I had to move to > > something that I could upgrade components when as vulnerabilities are > > discovered. > > > > According to the documentation, I should be able to export/import the > > database and then copy over the MediaWiki directory, and all should me > > good. Well, there are a couple of minor gotcha's in the doc's, but for > the > > most part, it's pretty straight forward. > > > > I had a few minor issues with the php, but once I got that figured out, I > > now get a page that tells me that the site is experiencing technical > > difficulties (Cannot access the database). > > > > I've verified that the database name, user name and password are correct. > > From the command line, I can access the database using the database user > > and I can see the tables. > > > > I'm not a DBA or a developer, so I'm not sure where to start > > troubleshooting. Other than verifying that the credentials are correct. > > > > The original installation was PHP v5.6.12 and the new installation is PHP > > v5.6.32. Other than that, I believe everything else is the same. > > MediaWiki is V1.25. > > > > Any suggestions on where to start looking? > > > > Thanks > > > > Daryl > > _______________________________________________ > > 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
