Last modified: 2010-05-15 15:33:41 UTC
I just upgraded to MediaWiki 1.4.0 from 1.3.x and found that all of my formatting is lost. Opening page source showed that many " codes are now rendered as ' These do not render and completely mess up all skins. See this excerpt: <div id='content'> <div id='topbar'> <table border='0' cellspacing='0' width='98%'> <tr> <td width='152' rowspan='1'> </td><td class="top" align='left' valign='top'> <a href="/wiki/index.php/Main_Page" title="Main Page">Main Page</a>
Created attachment 375 [details] Special pages with broken rendering Example
I downloaded 1.4.0 at 11:40 CET from the Brussels mirror of Sourceforge. Feel free to contact me privately to get rid of this bug.
HTML specification allows usage of both " and ', see http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/intro/sgmltut.html#h-3.2.2 Can you please tell us which browser you used? Exact version number and operating system would be helpful, too. What is rendered incorrectly, can you provide screenshots?
I used Mozilla Seamonkey 1.8ß2 running on Mac OSX 1.3.8. I get the same results with Safari 1.2.4 (v125.12). I will attach a screenshot in a minute and an anonimized php.info.
Created attachment 376 [details] screenshot of broken rendering Text renders, but the formatting is smashed.
Created attachment 377 [details] PHP info for more configuration details.
The screenshot shows a classic skin with a floating left bar (well, it should). Using monobook puts everything vertically in order, which makes it even harder to find stuff..
Updating summary I also noticed there are slashes in the code where I do not expect them. I can send .js files and .css files as needed, but I just unpacked the 1.4.0.tar.gz archive and moved it to my server directory so nothing should have gone missing.
I couldn't immediately see what the problem was, but loading meta.wikimedia.org in "Classic" skin, it looks to me like the CSS rules just aren't being loaded at all. The most obvious error is the URL-expansions showing up on external links (they should be hidden except for on print-outs). Are the CSS files being loaded correctly? Are the paths to bits of the skin set up correctly and accessible? I note that the logo in the top left has been not found as well. Note that the location of these files has changed completely from 1.3 to 1.4, so make sure you've: 1) put all the files in the right place 2) set any newly created files, such as these, to be readable/servable by the webserver Try loading the CSS files referenced in the source directly in your browser and see what happens (and maybe watch the server log while you do it)
OK, thanks everyone. I found it. I put in some rewrites as per http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Rewrite_rules Those were still pointing at stylesheets, rather than skins. Oddly enough, I had to restart and reload several times before the new skin came on line but it works now. Apologies for the fuss, and thanks again. An extra notice in the release notes might be useful.
(In reply to comment #10) > Oddly enough, I had to restart and reload several times before the new skin came on line but it > works now. That's probably caching - combinations of pointing at "...page_title?action=purge" and holding down Ctrl/Shift/similar while clicking "refresh" usually deal with the various kinds of problem this creates (the former being to bypass *internal* caches when the actual page rendering has changed).
