@Chris for me the prospect of having to pay after the first year is a deterrent I'd like a system that is free and will remain free.
On 5 February 2015 at 02:18, Brenton Horne <[email protected]> wrote: > @ John um where's the URL of this convo? I'd like to chime in but I'm not > familiar with IRC. > > On 5 February 2015 at 02:09, John <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I am currently walking someone thru the install process if you want to hop >> on to irc://freenode/mediawiki >> >> On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 10:53 AM, 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 >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
