I use MAMP (mac equivalent) and the reason you have to put in a port number is that the default port 80 is used your web browser and if I am not mistaken you wont be able to do any day to day browsing. Putting apache on a particular non standard port allows you to run the site on ones local machine for testing and development.
On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 4:53 PM, Brenton Horne <[email protected]> wrote: > I'd love to but every time I've installed it from the tarballs in the past > I end up failing miserably. I installed LAMP, I followed all the > instructions online I could find but I failed on Windows and Ubuntu. This > is why I used bitnami as a last resort. > > On 5 February 2015 at 01:33, John <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Odds are bitnami broke something. > > > > Many Linux distributions provide MediaWiki in a packaged format for that > > distro. These packages typically contain obsolete & unsupported versions > of > > MediaWiki; they also like to move around & change files, & do other > > super-counterproductive things. You'll get the best support here if you > > install MediaWiki directly from one of our tarballs - > > https://www.mediawiki.org/ - or Git > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_Git > > > > On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 8:50 AM, Brenton Horne <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'm presently running Ubuntu 14.04 32 bit and I installed MediaWiki > > 1.24.1 > > > via bitnami and it worked fine until I restarted my PC and now, even > with > > > my servers (Apache & MySQL, respectively) running (which I checked were > > > running by running the manager-linux.run file in the MediaWiki > > directory. I > > > even restarted them both manually) whenever I open up > > > http://localhost:8080/mediawiki/ I get a blank page. Going to > > > http://localhost:8080/ or http://localhost:8080/phpmyadmin works fine > > and > > > these pages load perfectly. > > > > > > Thanks for your time, > > > Brenton > > > _______________________________________________ > > > MediaWiki-l mailing list > > > To unsubscribe, go to: > > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > MediaWiki-l mailing list > > To unsubscribe, go to: > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > To unsubscribe, go to: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > -- Jonathan Aquilina _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
