[Mediawiki-l] 'Failed opening required' error

Wed Oct 12 22:59:16 UTC 2005

You don't need all the permissions set to 777, for one. But that isn't
likely causing this error; more, I thought I'd bring it up as a
security thing.

It makes no sense for the inclusion to stop working. I'll ponder over
this one for a while.

Rob Church

On 12/10/05, Kent S. Larsen II <kent at lusobraz.com> wrote:
>
> That was the first thing I checked. It was in the  includes/ folder like it
> should be.
>
> In general, I have not moved files around from the install. The only way it
> wouldn't have been in the proper place is if the install hadn't put it in
> the right location.
>
> Kent
>
> At 10:02 PM +0100 10/12/05, you wrote:
> >Does the UtfNormalUtil.php file exist in the includes/ or languages/
> >folder? If not, then the problem is simply that it can't be found
> >because it doesn't exist.
> >
> >
> >Rob Church
> >
> >On 12/10/05, Kent S. Larsen II <kent at lusobraz.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> OK, for some reason my wiki has changed from working normally to giving the
> >> following error:
> >>
> >> Fatal error: Failed opening required 'UtfNormalUtil.php'
> >> (include_path='.:/***/Litdb:/***/Litdb/includes:/***/Litdb/languages') in
> >> /***/Litdb/includes/normal/UtfNormal.php on line 36
> >>
> >> *** -- base path to directory (Litdb) where wiki was installed
> >>
> >>
> >> The only thing that I know changed was that my service provider reported
> >> the following change at about the time things stopped working:
> >>
> >> "Default group was over the domain quota. Set quota to unlimited."
> >>
> >> Now that could be just a coincidence, but I don't understand what the
> >> problem is or how to solve it.
> >>
> >> I know it has something to do with the process of connecting to mysql
> >> through php, but what is broken is beyond my knowledge.
> >>
> >> I've not changed the software at all. I have tried the following:
> >>
> >> 1. reviewed permissions, ownership and groups of all wiki files -- all are
> >> set to be the owner and group that are the same as other html files. The
> >> files' permissions are also all set to 777
> >>
> >> 2. reviewed httpd.conf and php.ini -- the only recent change to these files
> >> was in httpd.conf, and that change happened several days before the problem
> >> occurred. The apache server was restarted several times during those days.
> >>
> >> 3. reviewed entries in LocalSettings.php that control access to mysql. The
> >> user exists in the mysql database and that user's permissions seem to be
> >> correct. The password appears to be correct also, as does the database name
> >> and the host name ('localhost')
> >>
> >> Don't know what else to check.
> >>
> >> I have two other software packages that use php to connect to mysql. The
> >> older of the two is working fine (don't know what to call it -- it is a
> >> heavily modified commerce package that seems to be without name in the code.
> >>
> >> The second, Drupal, I installed recently to allow me to host blogs. It was
> >> also up and running and at about the same time, (I was trying to get it
> >> configured properly) it also stopped working with errors that point to a
> >> similar error.
> >>
> >> If anyone has some insight into this problem, I would really appreciate it.
> >>
> >> Kent
> >>
> >>
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