Last modified: 2010-05-15 15:41:12 UTC
the 1.7.1 installer failed to setup the wiki when one doesn't feed the root password and the like
Created attachment 2170 [details] fix a wrong test
See message below "Superuser password:" field in installer: If the database user specified above does not exist, or does not have access to create the database (if needed) or tables within it, please provide details of a superuser account, such as root, which does. Leave the password set to - if this is not needed.
This is totally off-topic. The fact is that with 1.7.1: - I didn't fill superuser fields - adding debug statements showed that mediawiki did go in the superuser code paths and thus tried to create the database with "@localhost"
... which of course failed. Looking at what it does, it assumes that root password is initialized to "-" but in my case, it was set to "", hence the failed test, hence the try to use a non specified superuser account, thus the faillure.
I think you may be misunderstanding how the installer works. The superuser account will be used *unless* the password is equal to a single dash. It does not matter what your actual password is - just leave it as a single dash and the superuser account will not be used. If you want the superuser account to be used, change the password from a single dash to the actual password.
I should have used a checkbox, like Brion told me to...
...and in that vein, I've added one. As of r18549, the superuser account will not be used unless the appropriate checkbox is selected during the initial form completion. This should be much clearer than a check based on an obscure default value.
