MediaWiki is a free software wiki package written in PHP, originally for use on Wikipedia. It is now used by several other projects of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation and by many other wikis.
Questions tagged [mediawiki]
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Apache webserver HTTPS port redirects to HTTP with port 443
At my work I installed Mediawiki (latest version) on a Apache webserver 2.4.6 with PHP 5. Everthing works fine when I want to access the wiki pages locally and I configure a hostname in Mediawiki
$wgServer = https://en.wiki.example.com.
Now once…
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MediaWiki VisualEditor stuck loading in private wiki
I setup MediaWiki with VisualEditor.
I followed instruction on the extension's wiki page, cloned the git, installed Parsoid, added the necessary lines to get Parsoid to talk to the wiki even if it's private:
$local_ip = '127.0.0.1';
if (…
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Different versions of MediaWiki on the same server
From what I can tell, people install multiple instances of MediaWiki on the same server all the time. However, I am not sure if you can install different versions of MediaWiki on the same server. Basically, I have a host running Windows Server 2008…
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Mediawiki upload directory outside installation directory
I have installed Mediawiki in /var/www/mediawiki/w, where /var/www/mediawiki is the root directory. Is it possible to set the upload directory outside w, say /var/www/mediawiki/images, instead of a subdir of w?
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Sporadic problems saving edits in MediaWiki
In our Wiki (http://scratch-dach.info MediaWiki 1.25.1, PHP 5.3.29, MySQL 5.5.44-log) we have sporadic problems when saving edits. At irregular intervals the Browser tries to download the index.php-file instead of committing edits. It seems that…
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Mediawiki talk page links to normal page
I have a mediawiki installation which mostly works as expected otherwise. However, suddenly, one normal page's "talk" section links to another normal page instead of to the expected separate "talk" page.
This can be seen here:…
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Nginx. Config two sites on the same port
I'm trying to add a wikimedia site on my server, which already has another site (which doesn't use PHP) on it. I want to put it on a different folder like www.hostname.com/wiki but it would be wonderful to have two different conf files to avoid…
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IIS 7.5 - Windows Authetication FQDN
Currently, I have to implement an auto login function for my mediawiki and I have enabled windows authentication on my IIS 7.5. It is working on localhost without any prompt.
However, when I tried example.com/wiki/index.php it is giving me the…
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php REMOTE_USER variable
I am trying to setup mediawiki with SSO. I was able to set up authentification with domain, but I cannot setup SSO.
For some reason, $_SERVER['REMOTE_USER'] variable is not set.
I looked into some anwsers in SO, but has no luck solving my issue.
I…
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How to resolve post-migration MediaWIki search issues?
After migrating from MediaWiki 1.10.4 to 1.15.1, we are unable to get accurate search results on the new server.
We migrated our existing mediawiki installation to a new server. In addition, we want to upgrade from MediaWiki 1.10.4 to 1.15.1. Both…
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SVN Checkout failing?
I'm trying to get the files from here-http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/phase3/skins but everytime I do, it gives me Could not read status line: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host.
Any ideas why?
Cheers!
James Outer
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Adding Bugzilla links to Mediawiki
We have both Bugzilla (3.2.5.1-2) and Mediawiki (1.20.2) and I would like an easy way to create links to bug reports from a wiki page. I've noticed that the main Wikipedia site has a shortcut to bug reports; the wiki text
[[bugzilla:1234]]
renders…
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Mediawiki behind reverse proxy populates user IP address with proxy address
I have apache running on a fw machine that reverse proxies different folders to different back end servers, and also wraps the connection in SSL. ...a fairly common setup.
Predictably, the backend mediawiki instance believes all access is coming…
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What does MediaWiki's $wgMaxShellMemory actually control?
My main question is: does wgMaxShellMemory limit the total memory used by all processes for shell tasks, like ImageMagick thumbnail creation? Or is it rather a per-process limit? The documentation for this setting seems vague.
I have a wiki which is…
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Importing old mediawiki SQL dump MAMP
I've been tasked with importing an SQL database to setup up with a local mediawiki website (v1.14). We were sent a SQL file with an image file to upload to the local site. After setting up mediawiki using MAMP, when importing the files through…
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