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On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 11:19 AM, Brenton Horne <[email protected]> wrote: > @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 > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
