I have been working on this for a couple of days, and was able to solve the problem.
First off, we have a wiki cluster [multiple wikis served by the same web server and database server]. The web server is using virtual hosts (ie - the web server has aliases, vice having multiple virtual machines), and each wiki has its own database. Within each virtual host, a soft-link is used to reference the MediaWiki software installation, along with the extensions, and we are using MediaWiki's short URLs. On our production servers, timelines were rendering correctly. On our development environment, they were not. A careful scrutiny of the difference yielded that on our development environment, the short URL is "/wiki", while on production it is something else. The web server had re-write rules to reference index.php if the URL started with /wiki. So, when SMW was making references to /wiki/extensions/....., they would be re-written as Wiki page titles. Adding a rewrite rule for /wiki/extensions solved the problem. Markus Krötzsch wrote: > We need to check this in more detail. Strangely, Timeline works well on > recent > development versions of MediaWiki 1.14. It would be unusual for MW 1.13.0 to > include major changes that are not found in MW 1.14 or MW 1.12. > > The text about JavaScript being disabled is not generated based on any check. > It is simply the content of the HTML page that you will see if the required > JavaScripts did not run (for whatever reason). On properly configured sites, > this should happen only if JavaScript is disabled, hence the text. > > Please provide a URL that shows the problem. The problem could be caused by a > custom skin, or by a wrong version of SRF (note that Timeline is not part of > SMW 1.4 any more). It might also be that some cache shows outdated HTML to > you. > > Regards, > > Markus > > On Sonntag, 11. Januar 2009, Keven Ring wrote: > >> A small amendment: >> I upgraded to SMW 1.4.1, and the timeline still does not render (same >> results as with SMW 1.3). >> >> Keven Ring wrote: >> >>> We recently upgraded our MediaWiki install to 1.13.3. Once this was >>> completed, our SMW Timelines stopped displaying. >>> >>> Instead, we get the text: >>> Use a JavaScript-enabled browser to view this element. >>> >>> followed by the items that would normally have been displayed in the >>> timeline. >>> >>> While this certainly could be a MediaWiki problem, it would seem that >>> SMW is having issues determining if the browser supports JavaScript >>> (Firefox 3.0.5, JavaScript enabled) - perhaps SMW is using an (old) MW >>> method to determine this? >>> >>> I also compared the sample Timeline >>> [http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Timeline] page source with ours - it >>> appears that similar data (minus the timeline data itself) was the same. >>> >>> Versions: >>> MediaWiki: 1.13.3 >>> SMW: 1.3 >>> >>> Thoughts? >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> ----- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. >>> It is the best place to buy or sell services for >>> just about anything Open Source. >>> http://p.sf.net/sfu/Xq1LFB >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Semediawiki-devel mailing list >>> Semediawiki-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-devel >>> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> --- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. >> It is the best place to buy or sell services for >> just about anything Open Source. >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/Xq1LFB >> _______________________________________________ >> Semediawiki-devel mailing list >> Semediawiki-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-devel >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Semediawiki-devel mailing list Semediawiki-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-devel
