Re: unable to connect to database in MediaWiki 1.27.4 installation

2018-07-13 Thread Richard Owlett
On 07/12/2018 12:01 PM, mick crane wrote: [*SNIP*] know frighteningly little about mysql. I'd make a test database at the mysql prompt. put some data in it. export it, drop it, make a new one, import the exported one. and do that a few times to see if it all works before messing with my real on

Re: unable to connect to database in MediaWiki 1.27.4 installation

2018-07-12 Thread mick crane
On 2018-07-12 16:17, Sharon Kimble wrote: mick crane writes: On 2018-07-08 19:03, mick crane wrote: On 2018-07-08 17:53, Sharon Kimble wrote: mick crane writes: On 2018-07-08 08:53, Sharon Kimble wrote: I'm unable to get mediawiki from the repos working as it is consistently failing at a

Re: unable to connect to database in MediaWiki 1.27.4 installation

2018-07-12 Thread john doe
On 7/12/2018 5:17 PM, Sharon Kimble wrote: mick crane writes: On 2018-07-08 19:03, mick crane wrote: On 2018-07-08 17:53, Sharon Kimble wrote: mick crane writes: On 2018-07-08 08:53, Sharon Kimble wrote: I'm unable to get mediawiki from the repos working as it is consistently failing at

Re: unable to connect to database in MediaWiki 1.27.4 installation

2018-07-12 Thread Sharon Kimble
mick crane writes: > On 2018-07-08 19:03, mick crane wrote: >> On 2018-07-08 17:53, Sharon Kimble wrote: >>> mick crane writes: >>> On 2018-07-08 08:53, Sharon Kimble wrote: > I'm unable to get mediawiki from the repos working as it is consistently > failing at accessing the databas

Re: unable to connect to database in MediaWiki 1.27.4 installation

2018-07-08 Thread mick crane
On 2018-07-08 19:03, mick crane wrote: On 2018-07-08 17:53, Sharon Kimble wrote: mick crane writes: On 2018-07-08 08:53, Sharon Kimble wrote: I'm unable to get mediawiki from the repos working as it is consistently failing at accessing the database as part of its configuration at the beginn

Re: unable to connect to database in MediaWiki 1.27.4 installation

2018-07-08 Thread mick crane
On 2018-07-08 17:53, Sharon Kimble wrote: mick crane writes: On 2018-07-08 08:53, Sharon Kimble wrote: I'm unable to get mediawiki from the repos working as it is consistently failing at accessing the database as part of its configuration at the beginning. I say 'consistently' as the same pr

Re: unable to connect to database in MediaWiki 1.27.4 installation

2018-07-08 Thread john doe
On 7/8/2018 6:53 PM, Sharon Kimble wrote: mick crane writes: On 2018-07-08 08:53, Sharon Kimble wrote: I'm unable to get mediawiki from the repos working as it is consistently failing at accessing the database as part of its configuration at the beginning. I say 'consistently' as the same pro

Re: unable to connect to database in MediaWiki 1.27.4 installation

2018-07-08 Thread Sharon Kimble
mick crane writes: > On 2018-07-08 08:53, Sharon Kimble wrote: >> I'm unable to get mediawiki from the repos working as it is consistently >> failing at accessing the database as part of its configuration at the >> beginning. I say 'consistently' as the same problem has occurred when >> trying to

Re: unable to connect to database in MediaWiki 1.27.4 installation

2018-07-08 Thread mick crane
On 2018-07-08 08:53, Sharon Kimble wrote: I'm unable to get mediawiki from the repos working as it is consistently failing at accessing the database as part of its configuration at the beginning. I say 'consistently' as the same problem has occurred when trying to install mediawiki from source,

unable to connect to database in MediaWiki 1.27.4 installation

2018-07-08 Thread Sharon Kimble
I'm unable to get mediawiki from the repos working as it is consistently failing at accessing the database as part of its configuration at the beginning. I say 'consistently' as the same problem has occurred when trying to install mediawiki from source, and this is a clean fresh install so I think