Apparently I did something magical on one install and not the others. Wireshark shows the first request packet going to the mw-serve server on the working machine, but no such communication attempt on the failing machines. No firewall software is running and the failing machines can ping the mw-serve server. So either some other network filter is blocking communication, or my Collection setup is somehow different.
> -----Original Message----- > From: trueskew [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, November 29, 2010 4:14 AM > To: '[email protected]' > Subject: RE: [mwlib] mw-serve works with one Mediawiki site > but not the other > > Thanks, this is helping... I know this is about me not > understanding how this works well enough. > > On Machine A, I've got mwlib and mwlib.rl installed, and > mw-serve running. > It's IP address is 10.3.3.118. > > On Machine B, hostname wiki.internal.com, I've got mediawiki running > with the Collection extension. It's pointing Machine A by setting > require_once( "$IP/extensions/Collection/Collection.php"); > $wgCollectionMWServeURL = "http://10.3.3.118:8899/";; > > I run a browser on Machine C and view > "http://wiki.internal.com/main"; to see my homepage. I can > build a book and render and download the pdf file for it. On > Machine A, mw-serve.log and mw-render.log show the messages > resulting from rendering the pdf file. > > My problem now is that Machine B is a test machine and needs > to be replaced with Machine X. But somehow just installing > the Collection extension and updating LocalSettings.php isn't > enough. All that happens is Machine C shows a blank page, > and Machine A shows no log file updates at all. > > In this description, what can I do to "turn on debug > messages", "enable verbose mode", etc., on Machine C or > Machine X to see why things are behaving differently? > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > > Of Ralf Schmitt > > Sent: Monday, November 29, 2010 3:21 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [mwlib] mw-serve works with one Mediawiki site but not > > the other > > > > "trueskew" <[email protected]> writes: > > > > >> it looks like you're trying to talk to mw-serve here. > you need to > > >> specify the base url of your mediawiki as the parameter to -c. > > > > > > mw-render is on the mediawiki machine. If I specify its > > URL using the > > > -c argument, where do I specify the IP address of mw-serve, > > running on > > > a different machine? > > > > You don't have to. mw-render just talks to mediawiki's api.php, it > > doesn't talk to mw-serve. mw-serve runs mw-zip/mw-render in > order to > > generate a pdf. > > > > Cheers, > > - Ralf > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "mwlib" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/mwlib?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mwlib" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mwlib?hl=en.
