Harald, I had the same exact problem before. I believe it has something to
do with pages that have been "edited" (special pages can't be edited, and
the main page was probably the default). After pulling out my hair for a 2-3
weeks, I installed MW 1.7.1. In order to keep your current stuff, backup
your database, and make sure you remember all the settings you used when you
first installed MW.
If your server doesn't have a MySQL backup utility, you can do it directly
in PhpMyAdmin. On the left choose "Export", select your database in the
list, check the box to save it to file, then click Go or Proceed (can't
remember its caption). Save that file. You might also consider downloading
all the files from your wiki folder to your local computer, especially if
you've modified the code of any of them. Then delete all files in the wiki
folder. Restore the MySQL database (unless you somehow were able to keep it
intact) and start over with 1.7.1. Hopefully your server will be as
understanding as mine was! Good luck.
Taylor
On 12/3/06, Harald Groven <harald(a)groven.no> wrote:
Anyone experienced this problem?
My MW182 installation throws a "500 internal server error". Some of
the special pages work fine, but none of the regular content pages are
displayed. The Main_Page shows up with navigation elements but no
content. Following any m-wiki links results in 500 error pages.
To test the server configuration I made a fresh MW install with a new
database (w other namespace), and it seems that that empty MW is
working fine. That should mean that the problem that creates the 500
messages are in the database not in the php code. I can access all the
tables from PhpMyAdmin, so its probably an inconsistency in the
database tables that cause the problem.
Is it possible to repair the MW database tables without doing harm to the
data?
--
Harald Groven
University of Tromsø
link to broken wiki (when mod_rewrite is turned off)
http://www.groven.no/mediawiki182/index.php?title=Main_Page
link to broken wiki (when mod_rewrite is on)
http://www.groven.no/harald
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