Are there any problems reported in error log? Try to enable debug info and
so on - I would guess that it's some PHP limit that you didn't re-enable in
the new setup. Apache logs should tell you more.

        Sergey


On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Markus Krötzsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> On Mittwoch, 27. Februar 2008, Temlakos wrote:
> > Markus:
> >
> > When you had issued release 1.0.1 of SemanticMediaWiki, the wiki that I
> > co-administer was down--someone had compromised our web host's server,
> > either with a faulty PHP upgrade or with a trojan; no one knows for
> sure.
> >
> > We have taken one month to get back on-line on a fully dedicated
> > server--essentially a "virtual-private-server" physical host with only
> > one virtual host, that being ourselves.
> >
> > And when I reinstalled our wiki and then installed SMW 1.0.1, not a
> > single page with my custom data type "Historical Date" would load. They
> > all would hang. (Pages not having this data type would not hang.)
>
> Oh, that is strange. So far SMW did not include the historical date
> anyway, so
> I cannot imagine what breaks there -- maybe you need some patch that was
> accidentally present in SMW 1.0 before (such as having the historical date
> in
> the language file)? The changes to SMW 1.0.1 were really minor, and it is
> certainly safe to copy language files from SMW1.0 if this helps.
>
> >
> > You will no doubt anticipate me and say that the Historical Date type
> > was to blame. I might go along with that, except for one thing: the
> > Historical Date datatype works without a problem in SMW 1.0, the version
> > one step back. But when I try to include it with SMW 1.0.1, I get a
> > problem.
>
> Strange, then maybe you can (partially) downgrade to 1.0. My plans are
> still
> to make Historical Date the new Date, which is why the datatype is not
> included yet. I will rather move its extended features over to Date as
> soon
> as I get down to it.
>
> >
> > I invite you all to visit our wiki. Actually, this one salient feature
> > appears to be the cause of a bad interaction with SMW 1.0.1: namely that
> > we store most of our images, not on the wiki itself, but on a separate
> > wiki, called the Media Pool.
>
> It seems even stranger that this should be the problem, since it seems to
> be
> so unrelated to one particular datatype.
>
> > The reason for this is that we have content
> > in English and in seven additional languages--and serving up eight
> > identical copies of an image would produce an upgrader's nightmare and
> > might also take up extra hard-disk space that we could put to better
> use.
> >
> > Here is the text of a file named "GlobalSettings.php" that we include
> >
> > with all the wikis that use this Media Pool:
> > > <?php
> > > # Shared Image POOL
> > > $wgSharedDB = "pool";
> > >
> > > $wgUploadNavigationUrl = 'http://creationwiki.org/pool/Special:Upload
> ';
> > > $wgUseSharedUploads = true;
> > > $wgSharedUploadPath = 'http://creationwiki.org/pool/images';
> > > $wgSharedUploadDirectory =
> > > '/var/www/vhosts/creationwiki.org/httpdocs/pool/images';
> > > $wgHashedSharedUploadDirectory = true;
> > >
> > > $wgFetchCommonsDescriptions = true;
> > > $wgSharedUploadDBname = 'jcreatio_pool';  # DB-Name of PoolWiki
> > > $wgSharedUploadDBprefix = ''; # Table name prefix for PoolWiki
> > > $wgRepositoryBaseUrl = "http://creationwiki.org/pool/image.php/Image:
> ";
> > >
> > > ?>
> >
> > You can see the variables that we set, and the sort of directories we
> > set with them.
> >
> > The trouble seems to arise when we set an absolute directory path for
> > the variable:
> >
> > $wgSharedUploadDirectory
> >
> > This is a fairly common technique, and we have used it successfully for
> > years. That it should break now is something of a puzzle.
>
> Just as unclear for me, especially since SMW clearly separates its globals
> with "smwg" as a prefix, so there should be no accidental name clashes or
> the
> like.
>
> >
> > If we can't figure out why SMW 1.0.1 breaks when I introduce a custom
> > nonlinear data type, then we might not be able to do any more upgrades
> > beyond 1.0.
>
> As I said: SMW1.0 and 1.0.1 are largely compatible. Many files are just
> not
> changed, and the others can probably be exchanged one-by-one to track down
> the issue. Seeing your earlier contributions, I trust your technical
> skills
> for doing that :-)
>
> Markus
>
>
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