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Bug 29255 - Login cannot edit
Login cannot edit
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 2760
Product: Wikimedia
Classification: Unclassified
General/Unknown (Other open bugs)
unspecified
PC Windows 7
: Highest blocker (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Reported: 2011-06-03 07:59 UTC by mail6543210
Modified: 2011-06-12 03:03 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Web browser: Google Chrome
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Assignee Huggle Beta Tester: ---


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Description mail6543210 2011-06-03 07:59:52 UTC
I was using http://zh.wikipedia.org/
and log in.

But if I login and click edit on the top-right, the browser ask me to "download" a file called index.php instead of leading me to the editor page.

If I don't login, I can see the editor page.

And the problem only occurs on the top-right "edit", else are OK.
Comment 1 Niklas Laxström 2011-06-03 08:08:59 UTC
Disable all "Use external editor" options in your preferences and try again.
Comment 2 mail6543210 2011-06-03 08:52:25 UTC
Yeah! You're right, that's the reason.

But does that option mean? Why is the problem?
Comment 3 Bawolff (Brian Wolff) 2011-06-12 03:03:24 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
> Yeah! You're right, that's the reason.
> 
> But does that option mean? Why is the problem?

See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:External_editors (Its a problem, because mediawiki tries to start another program to edit the page if option on, which causes your browser to download an ini file if you don't have such a program configured).

We really need to do something about that preference. (I'm marking this a dupe of the other bug just to increase stats of how many people are confused by this)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 2760 ***

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