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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php 5.4 on CentOS7
I am trying to install MediaWiki 1.27 on CentOS7.2. CentOS7.2 comes with php 5.4. However, at least 5.5.9 is required for MediaWiki 1.27.
I have installed and enabled rh-php56 from SCL repo which installed php5.6 in parallel with CentOS stock…
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Mediawiki LDAP setup issues
I have Mediawiki setup on a fedora machine and am attempting to get it working with our AD credentials. It is successfully connecting to our AD server and you can log into mediawiki fine with them. However now I am trying to restrict it so that only…

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PHP does not handle "bigger" http requests correctly
After an OS update, "bigger" HTTP requests are no longer handled correctly by the web server/PHP/MediaWiki. Wiki article content is truncated after about 6K characters and MediaWiki reports a loss of session.
Symptoms: I first recognized the error…

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Make error in installing Math support for MediaWiki
How can you solve the following Make error in installing MediaWiki?
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/local/lib/site_perl . /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.10.0 /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.10 /usr/share/perl/5.10…

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Error in Installing MediaWiki for Ubuntu, Posgres 8.3
How can you solve the error message at the last line?
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# Installing MediaWiki with php file extensions
# Environment checked. You can install MediaWiki.
#
Generating configuration file...
# Database type: PostgreSQL
# Loading class:…

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Mediawiki page slow to load on first access on apache server (AWS Ubuntu EC2)
I have a mediawiki page running on apache server on a Ubuntu EC2 on AWS. On first access of the website, it takes >20s for Initial connection (inspected in Chrome), after that the page works normally, even if I close the browser and reopen the URL.…

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Unable to authenticate MediaWiki (on LAMP/Ubuntu) users using AD (on Windows Server 2012 R2) via LDAP
I am working in an AD domain with a single DC running Windows Server 2012 R2. On the domain's network (though not formally domain-joined) is a LAMP web server running Ubuntu Server 14.04.3 LTS. All machines are able to reach one another by both IP…

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Can connect to Apache 2 test page, but no to Mediawiki
I've set up Mediawiki on Centos 6 according to this article:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Running_MediaWiki_on_Red_Hat_Linux
Works fine locally, but when I attempt to connect from outside my server to http://IPADDRESS/mediawiki it says…

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Mediawiki migrate existing wiki page to shortURL without afecting SEO (maintain old links)
Following the steps at:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL/Apache
I have already migrate my wiki page from…

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can't find mediawiki after changing apache listening port on ubuntu server
I had mediawiki installed and apache listening on port 9997 accessed via
example.com:9997/mediawiki
Mediawiki is under /var/www/html/mediawiki. So I wanted to change it to port 80. I changed /etc/apache2/ports.conf
Listen 80
#Listen 9997
I then…

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Mediawiki link search
I recently changed my mediawiki domain and everything is work well, but there are some pages that have links in them that point to resources on the discontinued domain. I could go through all the links and find them and change them but I was hoping…

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Nginx - Mediawiki - Limit access to the connexion page to specified ip
I would like to limit the possibility to connect to my Mediawiki web site to a specified list of ip.
The url to connect are…

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MediaWiki in multi-server environment
I'd like to ask about some strategies with MediaWiki. How would you run MediaWiki with good performance on a multi-server environment? Since it has configuration files it will also need some sort of central configuration.
Resources available are all…

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Second instance of mediawiki not loading
I have mediawiki on an internal server for one of my groups and it is running fine. I wanted to setup another wiki for a different internal group and I followed the instruction on how to do so on the following link…

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MediaWiki migration showing errors with old directory structure
I recently migrated a server from an Ubuntu machine to a more appropriate and easier to maintain CentOS 6.5 VM. After moving the software over and ensuring the paths are all corrected, or so I thought, I'm getting the below errors. Any time it…

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