If you find the answer, please let me know. I asked for help on this same
issue (Specified key was too long) back in July and never got a response.
I'm still running on 1.5.8 because of this issue.
Thanks,
Tim
-----Original Message-----
From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)Wikimedia.org
[mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Tom Sparks
Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 8:13 AM
To: mediawiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org
Subject: [Mediawiki-l] MediaWiki 1.7.1 Installation
MediaWiki 1.7.1 Installation
Don't forget security updates! Keep an eye on the
low-traffic release
announcements mailing list.
Checking environment...
Please include all of the lines below when reporting installation problems.
PHP 5.1.4 installed Found database drivers for: MySQL PHP server API is
apache2handler; 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 nor APC 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: C:\xampplite\htdocs\wiki
Script URI path: /wiki
Environment checked. You can install MediaWiki.
Warning: $wgSecretKey key is insecure, generated with mt_rand(). Consider
changing it manually.
Generating configuration file...
Database type: MySQL
Loading class: DatabaseMysql
Attempting to connect to database server as
root...success.
Connected to 5.0.21-community
Database wikidb exists
There are already MediaWiki tables in this database.
Checking if updates are
needed...
...hitcounter table already exists.
...querycache table already exists.
...objectcache table already exists.
Creating categorylinks table...Query "CREATE TABLE `categorylinks` (
cl_from int(8) unsigned NOT NULL default '0', cl_to varchar(255) binary NOT
NULL default '', cl_sortkey varchar(86) binary NOT NULL default '',
cl_timestamp timestamp NOT NULL, UNIQUE KEY cl_from(cl_from,cl_to), KEY
cl_sortkey(cl_to,cl_sortkey), KEY cl_timestamp(cl_to,cl_timestamp)
) TYPE=InnoDB
" failed with error code "Specified key was too long;
max key length is 1000
bytes (localhost)".
TS@AU
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