On 6/15/05, Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon <brentdax(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 6/14/05, Philipp <wikilist-1(a)e-something.de> wrote:
in the past few days the following problem
occurred in a local mediawiki
installation: When opening an article for edit, everything seems in
order.
Showing the preview also works and the change
applied to the article is
shown.
But when trying to submit, one gets the
other-user-edits-conflict-warning and
> in the preview field there is the old unchanged version.
The first step in troubleshooting this sort of problem is to take a
good, long look at the server's clock. Is it
correct (within a few
minutes, at least)? Was it recently changed? Does the database have
absurd timestamps in it? If the web and database servers are
separate, do their clocks pretty much agree?
What's the second step in troubleshooting? I have the same problem and my
clock is correct (ntpdate keeps it so) and the webserver and database both
live on the same machine (and the database knows the correct timezone). The
timestamps in cur look fine (so long as they're actually supposed to be GMT,
which is what I'm assuming). I have MW 1.4.9 installed on a FreeBSD
5.2.1-RELEASE server running Apache/1.3.29 (Unix) PHP/4.3.4 mod_ssl/2.8.16
OpenSSL/0.9.7c (I suppose I need to upgrade some things now that I'm
noticing... :)
I have similar configurations running the same version of MW, with no
problems. This is a new one for me. I've wiped the wiki directory and
dropped the database, done a re-install of MW, and gotten the same exact
results. I can create new pages, but anytime I try to edit an existing page
(no matter what user I am, WikiSysop or not) I get an "Edit conflict" that
it won't let me resolve.
The only thing I'm doing on this machine that's out of the ordinary is
connecting to it via an ssh tunnel (it's behind a firewall that won't allow
port 80 traffic through from outside the local network). I don't see how
that could affect anything but I figured I'd mention it for completeness.
Any suggestions?
-Bill Clark