[Mediawiki-l] Installation complete - connection refused

Sun Nov 20 00:38:00 UTC 2005

You did receive an error during installation, only you didn't act upon
it. It's a common one, too. Re-read the output from MediaWiki.

You need to set the password for the user you set up for MW's use
using the old mySQL authentication hashing.

Rob Church

On 17/11/05, Steve Allan <takezowest at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I installed MediaWiki 1.5.2 with no apparent error, but when I try to
> connect by following the link from the installation page, I get this:
>
>
> ERROR
> The requested URL could not be retrieved
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> While trying to retrieve the URL:
>
> http://build.chq.ei/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page
>
> The following error was encountered:
>
> Connection Failed
> The system returned:
>
>     (146) Connection refused
> The remote host or network may be down. Please try the request again.
>
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Generated Thu, 17 Nov 2005 18:07:23 GMT by proxycache (Squid/2.4.STABLE6)
>
>
>
> Here is the ouput from the mediawiki installation
>
> MediaWiki 1.5.2 installation
> Please include all of the lines below when reporting installation problems.
>
> Checking environment...
> PHP 4.4.1: ok
> PHP server API is apache; ok, using pretty URLs (index.php/Page_Title)
> Have XML / Latin1-UTF-8 conversion support.
> PHP is configured with no memory_limit.
> Have zlib support; enabling output compression.
> Neither Turck MMCache nor eAccelerator are installed, can't use object caching
> functions
> GNU diff3 not found.
> Found GD graphics library built-in, image thumbnailing will be enabled if you
> enable uploads.
> Installation directory: /opt/mediawiki-1.5.2
> Script URI path: /mediawiki
> PHP is linked with old MySQL client libraries. If you are using a MySQL 4.1
> server and have problems connecting to the database, see
> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/old-client.html for help.
> Trying to connect to MySQL on localhost as root...
> Connected as root (automatic)
> Connected to 3.23.53
> Created database wikidb
> Creating tables... using MySQL 3/4 table defs... done.
> Initializing data...
> Granting user permissions...
> Created sysop account WikiSysop.
> Initialising "MediaWiki" namespace...
> Clearing message cache...Done.
> Creating LocalSettings.php...
>
> Installation successful!  Move the config/LocalSettings.php file into the
> parent directory, then follow this link to your wiki.
>
>
> I moved LocalSettings.php up one level to the root of the mediawiki
> installation and deleted the config directory.  I've tried typing in
> different urls, with no luck.  One suggestion I found when googling was to
> use this url:
>
> http://build.chq.ei/mediawiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
>
> but that didn't work either.  Can anyone suggest how to fix this?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> -- Steve
>
>
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