Aas I said, nothing happened. Th screen stayed exactly the same. I looked at the page source & it was OK, the instructions in the link were good, it said to go to the correct page and open the index.php file in /mw-config withing the mediawiki directory, just nothing happened. No error messages, nada. Any ideas. I figure it is a permission thing but have no idea how to fix it. take a look,the link to the page is
http://www.physicswiki.net If it works for you, message me back please don't try to finish the setup. On Fri, 2013-10-11 at 11:07 +0100, Alex Monk wrote: > Nothing happened? Did your browser not change pages? Did you get a blank > screen? > > > On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 5:18 AM, John W. Foster <[email protected]>wrote: > > > As the title say, I just installed mediawiki 1.21.2 on a remotely hosted > > VPS server. I got everything set up using the putty software, and the > > remote server is a Debian 'squeeze' system, where I do have 'root' level > > access & can install what ever i need. First rattle out of the bag the > > mediawiki fired up in my browser and asked for me to complete the > > installation, as I expected. However when I clicked on the link to > > 'complete the installation' nothing happened. I tried a chown -R to > > www-data for the entire wiki, but that made no difference. a test of > > php5 shows all OK as well as does the apache server it's running on. > > This is my first ever attempt to manage a wiki remotely, so any tips are > > appreciated. I just don't have a clue why this did'nt work. > > Thanks > > John > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > MediaWiki-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
