Questions tagged [mediawiki]
MediaWiki is a free software wiki package written in PHP, originally for use on Wikipedia. It is now used by several other projects of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation and by many other wikis.
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HSTS header not being sent though rule is present and mod_headers is enabled
We enabled HSTS in httpd.conf in the Virtual Host handling port 443. We tried with and without the <IfModule mod_headers.c>:
<IfModule mod_headers.c>
Header set Strict-Transport-...
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Displaying ODG files thumbnails in Mediawiki
I would like to manage network diagrams in a Mediawiki instance using Libreoffice Draw (odg extension) : importing the odg files in the wiki is working but it's actually impossible to display ...
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MediaWiki Multi Site + Memcached
I have multiple mediawiki installations, and I'm wondering if it's safe to allow them to all use the same memcached server.
Are there any "gotchas" involved?
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Semantic MediaWiki require onoi/callback-container, but it can't be installed
I try to install the latest release of SemanticMediaWiki. When I run composer update, it returns the following:
> ComposerHookHandler::onPreUpdate
Loading composer repositories with package ...
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MediaWiki VisualEditor stuck loading in private wiki
I setup MediaWiki with VisualEditor.
I followed instruction on the extension's wiki page, cloned the git, installed Parsoid, added the necessary lines to get Parsoid to talk to the wiki even if it's ...
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IIS 7.5 - Windows Authetication FQDN
Currently, I have to implement an auto login function for my mediawiki and I have enabled windows authentication on my IIS 7.5. It is working on localhost without any prompt.
However, when I tried ...
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Importing old mediawiki SQL dump MAMP
I've been tasked with importing an SQL database to setup up with a local mediawiki website (v1.14). We were sent a SQL file with an image file to upload to the local site. After setting up mediawiki ...
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mediawiki and wordpress MU different root with Nginx
i want to use wordpress MU with mediawiki on the same domain , but i'm using a kind of mediawiki hosting service called wikifamily.
so i have to different script root :
/var/www/wikifamly for ...
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mod_rewrite changes case even if not matching RewriteCond?
I have a really strange problem with my MediaWiki which I want to have articles of the form mywiki.org/MyArticle. Now I got most of it to work using the following code but it mysteriously cannot ...
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downloading xlsx from secure site in apache from IE causes extra prompt
The issue is that when downloading the file, the download occurs (first prompt to open/save) and you can save the file. If you OPEN the file, it will make additional OPTIONS requests to the wiki ...
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Mediawiki Math Extension it does work from the command line, but not from PHP
I have moved Mediawiki from old server (LINUX) to new server(LINUX). Once i have moved Math functions are not working. So i requested IT team to install the relevant software and package. When I was ...
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randomized mediawiki logout
I've got a mediawiki instance that seems to randomly log people out. Sometimes it takes hours, sometimes seconds. I haven't figured out what's triggering the logout, but it doesn't seem to be a ...
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Mapping extension for MediaWiki
I am creating a wiki that allows people to specify the geographic range in which a species is found, something like this. I would like to allow people to define these kinds of maps in some way, either ...
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WSS 3.0 Wiki export
We have a WSS 3.0 server with a lot of wiki pages created which need to be moved over to MediaWiki.
Are there any tools that can be used to automate this process?
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How to properly use MediaWiki with $wgDBadminuser?
I have to set up a fresh MediaWiki and am getting increasingly upset with config recommendations that don't seem to work well when configured as outlined in the official documentation.
Two servers. ...
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Installing MediaWiki with Docker
I'm attempting to install MediaWiki using the Docker image mediawiki:1.40.0-fpm. It's my intention to use an external instance of Nginx as reverse proxy for SSL termination.
I can start the container ...
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Make webserver to prevent parsing of certain HTML elements
MediaWiki content management system creates many links which their webpages I want not to be discovered by search engine crawlers.
It's not only that I don't want them indexed and more so not only ...
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Mediawiki refers to old domain after change
I changed the top level domain name of my mediawiki installation (wiki.olddomain.com -> wiki.newdomain.com). After editing the LocalConfig.php I can visit the wiki on the new domain, but after ...
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nginx short url not quite getting me there
I am setting up mediawiki on my site and want to use short urls at the root. I want my address to be:
wiki.example.com/Main_Page, wiki.exampe.com/another_page
main site redirect goal:
wiki.example....
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404 Response from NGINX when trying to setup mediawiki short urls
I have NGINX setup to serve content over localhost with HTTPS. Using the following location block, I can serve mediawiki just fine (it is in the /w folder)
location ~ /w/(.*)(\.php)?$ {
index index....
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How to convert a MediaWiki installation using MySQL to SQLite?
We're running a small own MediaWiki installation based on MySQL here. For simplicity reasons it would be great to convert this installation to an SQLite variant as it then would not require a separate ...
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How do I check how much memory a Mediawiki instance has available to it?
Before anyone posts something about checking php.ini, bear in mind there are all sorts of ways it could be overridden. Where's the admin page or panel that lists the amount of RAM available to ...
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MySQL socket disappears
I am running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, with MySQL server for MediaWiki 1.30.0 along with Apache2 and PHP7.0. The installation was successful for everything, I managed to get it all running. Then I start ...
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Mediawiki LDAP setup issues
I have Mediawiki setup on a fedora machine and am attempting to get it working with our AD credentials. It is successfully connecting to our AD server and you can log into mediawiki fine with them. ...
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Mediawiki page slow to load on first access on apache server (AWS Ubuntu EC2)
I have a mediawiki page running on apache server on a Ubuntu EC2 on AWS. On first access of the website, it takes >20s for Initial connection (inspected in Chrome), after that the page works normally, ...
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can't find mediawiki after changing apache listening port on ubuntu server
I had mediawiki installed and apache listening on port 9997 accessed via
example.com:9997/mediawiki
Mediawiki is under /var/www/html/mediawiki. So I wanted to change it to port 80. I changed /etc/...
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Mediawiki link search
I recently changed my mediawiki domain and everything is work well, but there are some pages that have links in them that point to resources on the discontinued domain. I could go through all the ...
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Nginx - Mediawiki - Limit access to the connexion page to specified ip
I would like to limit the possibility to connect to my Mediawiki web site to a specified list of ip.
The url to connect are :
/index.php/Spécial:Connexion
/index.php?title=Spécial:Connexion
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MediaWiki in multi-server environment
I'd like to ask about some strategies with MediaWiki. How would you run MediaWiki with good performance on a multi-server environment? Since it has configuration files it will also need some sort of ...
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MediaWiki migration showing errors with old directory structure
I recently migrated a server from an Ubuntu machine to a more appropriate and easier to maintain CentOS 6.5 VM. After moving the software over and ensuring the paths are all corrected, or so I ...
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converting Lighttpd rule to apache rules
I am using mediawiki on my localhost server. my url for now is 127.0.0.1:8080/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
But i want to convert above mentioned url to wiki.127.0.0.1:8080 or something like wiki.nikunj....
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PHP/APC Canonicalize not working as expected
Basic Info:
APC Version 3.1.13
PHP Version 5.4.7-1~dotdeb.0
APC Host pcgamingwiki.com (li263-94) (173.255.253.94)
Server Software nginx/1.2.4
In my config, I have apc.stat = 0 and apc....
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How many xml http requests is too much for a pc to handle?
I'm running mediawiki on an apache on a regular pc running vista (don't know the specific specs, but I'm guessing at least duo core 2 2 giga hertz processor, broadband connection (500 kb/s at least, ...
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Second instance of mediawiki not loading
I have mediawiki on an internal server for one of my groups and it is running fine. I wanted to setup another wiki for a different internal group and I followed the instruction on how to do so on the ...
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Multiple instances of mediawiki on stand alone server
I want to run a second instance of MediaWiki on a stand alone server. Does anyone have a guide on how to do this without causing problems for my current MediaWiki instance.
