Comments on: Installing MediaWiki http://www.acidlabs.org/2006/08/07/installing-mediawiki/ Conversation. Collaboration. Community. Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:07:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Brandon Harper http://www.acidlabs.org/2006/08/07/installing-mediawiki/comment-page-1/#comment-874 Brandon Harper Mon, 07 Aug 2006 08:09:32 +0000 http://dev.acidlabs.org/2006/08/07/installing-mediawiki/#comment-874 For those reading this post without MediaWiki experience-- you should probably slam your hand in the door a few times to get an idea of the pain involved to try and install this beast. I'd like to think I'm fairly decent with FreeBSD (I've been using it for close to 10 years now), and I eventually gave-up on getting MediaWiki installed and working. Granted it was something I was trying to do in my "spare time" at work, but I found the time to install it to not be worth it to me. If the install process was that impossible, I didn't want to find-out what it was like to upgrade. Anyhow, I digress... Stephen-- The first thing I'd do is check httpd-error.log as well as the messages log (/var/log/httpd-error.log and /var/log/messages on FreeBSD, respectively). Not sure where those are at on OSX, though. Those should at least give you an error message as to what is happening (as long as error logging is enabled in your Apache config). Most likely it will be in httpd-error.log, but when processes crash they also leave a trace in messages sometimes. Granted I don't know OSX, so this may not be useful. For those reading this post without MediaWiki experience — you should probably slam your hand in the door a few times to get an idea of the pain involved to try and install this beast.

I’d like to think I’m fairly decent with FreeBSD (I’ve been using it for close to 10 years now), and I eventually gave-up on getting MediaWiki installed and working. Granted it was something I was trying to do in my “spare time” at work, but I found the time to install it to not be worth it to me. If the install process was that impossible, I didn’t want to find-out what it was like to upgrade. Anyhow, I digress…

Stephen — The first thing I’d do is check httpd-error.log as well as the messages log (/var/log/httpd-error.log and /var/log/messages on FreeBSD, respectively). Not sure where those are at on OSX, though. Those should at least give you an error message as to what is happening (as long as error logging is enabled in your Apache config). Most likely it will be in httpd-error.log, but when processes crash they also leave a trace in messages sometimes. Granted I don’t know OSX, so this may not be useful.

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