Re: [MediaWiki-l] MediaWiki is not running

2015-02-04 Thread chris tharp
Hi Brenton, I use Bitnami, via the Amazon cloud, and have it found it to be the way to go. I suggest you switch to the Amazon cloud, it's free for the first year, as I recall, if you're small. Bitnami has a great and easy to use interface that you can turn on, off, clone, and create backups of

Re: [MediaWiki-l] MediaWiki is not running

2015-02-04 Thread Brenton Horne
@ John um where's the URL of this convo? I'd like to chime in but I'm not familiar with IRC. On 5 February 2015 at 02:09, John phoenixoverr...@gmail.com wrote: I am currently walking someone thru the install process if you want to hop on to irc://freenode/mediawiki On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at

Re: [MediaWiki-l] MediaWiki is not running

2015-02-04 Thread John
https://webchat.freenode.net/ use the channel #mediawiki On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 11:19 AM, Brenton Horne brentonhorn...@gmail.com wrote: @Chris for me the prospect of having to pay after the first year is a deterrent I'd like a system that is free and will remain free. On 5 February 2015 at

Re: [MediaWiki-l] MediaWiki is not running

2015-02-04 Thread Brenton Horne
@Chris for me the prospect of having to pay after the first year is a deterrent I'd like a system that is free and will remain free. On 5 February 2015 at 02:18, Brenton Horne brentonhorn...@gmail.com wrote: @ John um where's the URL of this convo? I'd like to chime in but I'm not familiar

Re: [MediaWiki-l] MediaWiki is not running

2015-02-04 Thread John
I am currently walking someone thru the install process if you want to hop on to irc://freenode/mediawiki On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 10:53 AM, Brenton Horne brentonhorn...@gmail.com wrote: I'd love to but every time I've installed it from the tarballs in the past I end up failing miserably. I

Re: [MediaWiki-l] MediaWiki is not running

2015-02-04 Thread Jan Steinman
From: Jonathan Aquilina eagles051...@gmail.com ... the reason you have to put in a port number is that the default port 80 is used your web browser and if I am not mistaken you wont be able to do any day to day browsing. Not so. Ports below 1024 are reserved for well-known services. Your

Re: [MediaWiki-l] MediaWiki is not running

2015-02-04 Thread Brenton Horne
I'd love to but every time I've installed it from the tarballs in the past I end up failing miserably. I installed LAMP, I followed all the instructions online I could find but I failed on Windows and Ubuntu. This is why I used bitnami as a last resort. On 5 February 2015 at 01:33, John

[MediaWiki-l] MediaWiki is not running

2015-02-04 Thread Brenton Horne
Hi, I'm presently running Ubuntu 14.04 32 bit and I installed MediaWiki 1.24.1 via bitnami and it worked fine until I restarted my PC and now, even with my servers (Apache MySQL, respectively) running (which I checked were running by running the manager-linux.run file in the MediaWiki directory.