[Mediawiki-l] Installation issue: 'http://localhost/wiki/index.php/Main_Page"

Thu Sep 8 21:32:21 UTC 2005

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-------Original Message-------

From: Graham Glass
Date: 09/08/05 14:27:24
To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Installation issue: 'http://localhost/wiki/index
php/Main_Page"

Hi Al,

Did you add support for "nice urls" via a plugin too, or resort to "ugly
urls"?

Cheers,
Graham

On 9/8/05, Alistair Johnson <JohnsonA at rembrandt.co.nz> wrote:
>
> Graham, Just a note that we have Mediawiki running on Windows 2000 and IIS
> and it works fine. There are some performance issues to be wary of (100%
> cpu utilisation while the PHP scripts run to generate a page), but as long
> as you have enough grunt on your server or a fairly small load (like we
> do)
> you should be fine.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Al.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brion Vibber [mailto:brion at pobox.com]
> Sent: Thursday, 8 September 2005 5:46 p.m.
> To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
> Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Installation issue:
> 'http://localhost/wiki/index.php/Main_Page"
>
> Graham Glass wrote:
> > Apologies in advanced if this is a retardo question ;-)
> >
> > I just installed MySQL, PHP and the MediaWiki software.
> > It's running under IIS on Windows XP Pro.
> >
> > When I first visited http://localhost/wiki, it sent me to the initial
> > configuration screen, which seemed to go well. It told me everything
> > it was doing, and indicated that configuration had gone successfully.
> > Finally, it pointed me back to http://localhost/wiki/index.php.
> >
> > When I went there, I got a browser page back from IIS saying that
> > it couldn't find .../Main_Page. Any idea what's going on?
>
> Use Apache on Linux/Unix unless you have some very, very good reason not
> to. If you must use Windows, use Apache. If you must use IIS, you'll
> have to figure it out on your own as we don't have it or support it.
>
> If you can't configure IIS correctly, try switching the $wgArticlePath
> to 'ugly URL' style.
>
> -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com <http://pobox.com>)
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