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I installed MediaWiki 1.5beta1 on an Apache/1.3.29 (Unix) environment with CGI
PHP Version 4.3.10 and external MySQL 4.0.20 (not localhost).

After installation page rendering, login and user account creation worked OK.
When I wanted to restrict the page access (see bottom *),
- loading new (uncached) pages resulted in a white page containing the letters
"" before redirecting to the actual page.
- trying to login resulted in an empty page without any redirection, making it
impossible to login.

Undoing all the changes in DefaultSettings.php and LocalSettings.php did NOT fix
this problem.

I tried as well with Firefox (1.0.4) and with Internet Explorer (6.0) from
WindowsXP.


*Access restriction was done:
by commenting (#) the following lines in DefaultSettings.php :

  #$wgGroupPermissions['*'    ]['createaccount']   = true;
  #$wgGroupPermissions['*'    ]['read']            = true;
  #$wgGroupPermissions['*'    ]['edit']            = true;

and entering the following lines into LocalSettings.php :

  # Pages anonymous (not-logged-in) users may see
  $wgWhitelistRead = array ("Main Page", "Special:Userlogin", "Wikipedia:Help");