[Mediawiki-l] the hosting company broke my wiki (login / uploading and saving changes)

Fri Nov 4 01:20:29 UTC 2005

Hi Rick,
I'm *seriously* sorry about this..

Now, when I look at
http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2005-November/thread.html

I can now see the question is posted, but in my gmail view, I *never*
saw my question being copied to myself (with a pre-pended
[Mediawiki-l], so I had assumed it wasn't getting thru.. whoops.

Does this list not send the poster a copy of what you posted yourself ??

sorry, my bad. doh.

darren.

On 04/11/05, Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/3/05, Darren Kruse <darren.kruse at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I had a perfectly functioning wiki, happily making edits and uploading
> > stuff. All was good.
> > http://law.flindersclubs.asn.au/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
> >
> > Then *something* happened at the hosting company that has broken my wiki. :-(
> >
> > 1. To login, I now need to tick "Remember my password across
> > sessions.", otherwise it reverts to my IP address
> >
> > 2. When uploading, I get the red msg ; "Upload error. The file you
> > uploaded seems to be empty. This might be due to a typo in the file
> > name."
> >
> > 3. When I do make a change, and save changes, it's as if I hit the
> > preview button. The changes are *not* saved.
> >
> > So essentially I'm stuck with a wiki stuck in time. A stiki-wiki
> >
> > I'm running :
> >     MediaWiki (http://wikipedia.sf.net/): 1.4.9
> >     PHP (http://www.php.net/): 4.3.10 (cgi)   (zipped output of php -i attached)
> >     MySQL (http://www.mysql.com/): 4.0.18-Max
> >
> > I get valid cookies for :
> > PHPSESSID - expires at end of sesssion
> > Token, UserID and UserName - all expire in one month
> >
> > The hosting company won't talk to me directly, and the intemediary is
> > not really helpful.
> > I do have SSH access, but with quite limited, non-root access.
> >
> > My only clue is that this page
> > http://law.flindersclubs.asn.au/wiki/index.php?title=Photos
> >
> > shows an incomplete thumbnail. The photos were all uploaded - these
> > uploads looks like the last thing that was done to the wiki just
> > before it broke.
> >
> > So, I don't know if we hit a diskspace limit (I've been advised that
> > it's been increased anyway), and if that broke something, or if this
> > is co-incidence, and some underlying PHP, or Apache thing has changed
> > that has broken the wiki.
> >
> > Any ideas gratefully received,
> > cheers,
> > darren.
> >
> >
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> I've got no idea, but posting essentially the same thing three times
> in just about a day is not likely to help you get an answer.
>
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> Rick DeNatale
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