Re: [Mediawiki-l] Basic help

2010-12-01 Thread Gary Roush
Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 12:48 PM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Basic help Hi Benjamin, I removed those two lines from LocalSettings.php and got a different error message of Could not create directory public/1/1f. So it still can

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Basic help

2010-12-01 Thread David Benfell
On Wed, 01 Dec 2010, Gary Roush wrote: Uploading files is finally fixed. After escalating help with ReadyHosting to level 3, I finally found someone who could change the image directory permissions to full (their term). That solved the problem, but interestingly when I look at the

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Basic help

2010-11-30 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Gary Roush grou...@earthlink.net wrote: Interesting that public is actually the images directory. Yeah, that's rather unhelpful behavior. See https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13812 (which I'm re-adding to my to-do list). $wgUploadPath = true; ///

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Basic help

2010-11-30 Thread Gary Roush
Hi Benjamin, I removed those two lines from LocalSettings.php and got a different error message of Could not create directory public/1/1f. So it still can not create a directory but at least found the images directory. What now? Thanks, Gary At 10:46 AM 11/30/2010, you wrote: On Tue, Nov

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Basic help

2010-11-30 Thread trueskew
chmod -R 777 images -Original Message- From: mediawiki-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Gary Roush Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 12:48 PM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Basic help

2010-11-30 Thread Benjamin Lees
: mediawiki-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Gary Roush Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 12:48 PM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Basic help Hi Benjamin, I removed those two lines from

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Basic help

2010-11-30 Thread Gary Roush
...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Gary Roush Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 12:48 PM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Basic help Hi Benjamin, I removed those two lines from LocalSettings.php and got a different error message of Could not create

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Basic help

2010-11-29 Thread Tomás Vírseda
Hi, about the first question: did you try to write first letter as uppercase? [[File:Example.jpg|center|100px|caption]] Regards 2010/11/29 Gary Roush grou...@earthlink.net Some basic help please. I am new to Mediawiki and have just set up my first site. I can not figure out how to get

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Basic help

2010-11-29 Thread Platonides
wjhon...@aol.com wrote: You are putting brackets around the url, don't. Just the URL itself by itself on it's own line. That behavior only works if the wiki is configured with $wgAllowExternalImages = true; in LocalSettings.php He should upload the files from Special:Upload.

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Basic help

2010-11-29 Thread Brian Bell
Try [[image:imagename.jpg]] This should show, even if the thumbnail is not working correctly. If that works, but [[image:imagename.jpg|300px]] does not, then it is an issue with the thumbnail graphics generator. Make sure that the wiki database knows where the image is. In the search box put

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Basic help

2010-11-29 Thread Chad
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 1:33 PM, wjhon...@aol.com wrote: In a message dated 11/29/2010 7:28:45 AM Pacific Standard Time, platoni...@gmail.com writes: That behavior only works if the wiki is configured with $wgAllowExternalImages = true; in LocalSettings.php Is this not the default

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Basic help

2010-11-29 Thread Gary Roush
Hi Bri, The search does not find the image file even though it is in the images directory. When I try to upload the image file using Special:upload, I get this error message The upload directory (public) is missing and could not be created by the webserver along with PHP error messages

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Basic help

2010-11-29 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 9:36 PM, Gary Roush grou...@earthlink.net wrote: The search does not find the image file even though it is in the images directory.  When I try to upload the image file using Special:upload, I get this error message The upload directory (public) is missing and could not

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Basic help

2010-11-28 Thread WJhonson
Just the URL to the image naked. Here is an image of something _http://www.whatever.com/image/this.jpg_ (http://www.whatever.com/image/this.jpg) That was an image of something In a message dated 11/28/2010 8:00:03 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, grou...@earthlink.net writes: I am

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Basic help

2010-11-28 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 10:58 PM, Gary Roush grou...@earthlink.net wrote: I can not figure out how to get images to appear in an edited page.  According to the edit instructions, entering [[File:example.jpg|center|100px|caption]] should work, but I get just the word caption as a link to

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Basic help

2010-11-28 Thread Gary Roush
I uploaded the images using FTP. How do I do Special:Upload? On the navigation box, I am wondering why the pages do not exist. Especially the help pages. Thanks, Gary At 11:30 PM 11/28/2010, you wrote: On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 10:58 PM, Gary Roush grou...@earthlink.net wrote: I can not

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Basic help

2010-11-28 Thread WJhonson
You are putting brackets around the url, don't. Just the URL itself by itself on it's own line. ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l