Last modified: 2010-05-15 14:35:49 UTC
I got the error quoted below the moment when trying to install mediawiki 1.4 on a remote linux system I have no root privileges on (webspace provider). However, installing mediawiki 1.38 worked without any problems. The php version they use is 1.5. *Warning*: main() [function.main <http://www.ottomanbiography.net/wiki_140/config/function.main>]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/convertLinks.inc) is not within the allowed path(s): (/home/www/web12/) in */home/www/web12/html/wiki_140/maintenance/updaters.inc* on line *9* *Warning*: main(convertLinks.inc) [function.main <http://www.ottomanbiography.net/wiki_140/config/function.main>]: failed to open stream: Operation not permitted in */home/www/web12/html/wiki_140/maintenance/updaters.inc* on line *9* *Fatal error*: main() [function.require <http://www.ottomanbiography.net/wiki_140/config/function.require>]: Failed opening required 'convertLinks.inc' (include_path='.:') in */home/www/web12/html/wiki_140/maintenance/updaters.inc* on line *9*
If there ever was a PHP 1.5, it would be so old that MediaWiki would definitely not run on it. If it's trying to open "/convertLinks.inc" then you've got some other problem. Your web provider may have a badly broken PHP or a misconfigured PHP which disallows basic necessary file operations. Please find out which version and which operations are disabled before continuing.
(In reply to comment #1) > If there ever was a PHP 1.5, it would be so old that MediaWiki would definitely not run on it. > Sorry for that. It is PHP 5.0.2-1.dotdeb.5. No Safe mode active.
Removing blocker tag as this seems a rare condition. Can you test the 1.4.2 release and see if this still happens? The include_path usage in the installer has been changed a bit.
Unfortunately I have no longer access to the environment in question because my stuff was moved to another server with PHP 4.3 on it. There everything just works fine. Was perhaps really a php configuration problem. Sorry for the inconvenience. Should resolution set to IINVALID or WORKSFORME?
Created attachment 711 [details] fixes the paths that they work with open_basedir php_admin_flag engine on php_admin_value safe_mode On php_admin_value open_basedir /PATHTOWIKI/ php_admin_value upload_tmp_dir /PATHTOUPLAODDIR php_admin_value session_save_path /PATHTOSESSIONSAVEDIR
Issue does not happen with HEAD (1.6a)
