Last modified: 2010-05-15 15:34:02 UTC
MediaWiki 1.4.7 installation Please include all of the lines below when reporting installation problems. Checking environment... * PHP 4.3.9: ok * PHP server API is apache2handler; ok, using pretty URLs (index.php/Page_Title) * Have XML / Latin1-UTF-8 conversion support. * PHP's memory_limit is 11M. If this is too low, installation may fail! Attempting to raise limit to 20M... ok. * Have zlib support; enabling output compression. * Turck MMCache not installed, can't use object caching functions * Found ImageMagick: /usr/bin/convert; image thumbnailing will be enabled if you enable uploads. * Found GD graphics library built-in. * Installation directory: /var/www/dev/info * Script URI path: /info * MySQL error 1045: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO) * Trying regular user... ok. * Connected to database... 4.1.10a-log; enabling MySQL 4 enhancements * Database info exists * There are already MediaWiki tables in this database. Checking if updates are needed... ...linkscc table already exists. ...hitcounter table already exists. ...querycache table already exists. ...objectcache table already exists. ...categorylinks table already exists. ...logging table already exists. ...user_rights table already exists. Adding ipb_id field to table ipblocks...Query "ALTER TABLE ipblocks ADD ipb_auto tinyint(1) NOT NULL default '0', ADD ipb_id int(8) NOT NULL auto_increment, ADD PRIMARY KEY (ipb_id)" failed with error code "Table 'info.ipblocks' doesn't exist". I was installing MediaWiki when I ran into the "key length too long" error. I altered the create table statement to use a smaller key length and created the table manually. Once the table was created, I re-ran the installation script. I then got this error listed above. My guess is that the script does not check if all tables exist before altering the table. My guess is that the code logic should check for the existance of every table before attempting to do any alter table statements. Is there a listing of a unified create table SQL with all alterations pre-configured so that alter table statements are not needed? Thanks againd and have a great day! Phade.
Your database was incomplete. Drop the database and do a clean reinstall.
I did that, but still the installation continuously fails. The previous error to this one was: Creating tables...Query "CREATE TABLE categorylinks ( cl_from int(8) unsigned NOT NULL default '0', cl_to varchar(255) binary NOT NULL default '', cl_sortkey varchar(255) binary NOT NULL default '', cl_timestamp timestamp NOT NULL, UNIQUE KEY cl_from(cl_from,cl_to), KEY cl_sortkey(cl_to,cl_sortkey(128)), KEY cl_timestamp(cl_to,cl_timestamp) )" failed with error code "Specified key was too long; max key length is 1000 bytes". The simple answer I came up with to fix that error was to change the key definition and create the table manually. I tried KEY cl_sortkey(cl_to(205),cl_sortkey(128)) and KEY cl_sortkey(cl_to,cl_sortkey(78)), both of which seemed to create a valid table. After creating the table, I re-ran the installation script hoping that it would continue where it left off. That is when I got the error as reported above. Oddly, if I drop all tables, manually create the troublesome categorylinks table, and then try to run the install script, the "Specified key was too long; max key length is 1000 bytes" error appears instead of an expected "table already exists" error. Should the installer instead check for the existence of all tables, not just one or two tables? A check of 'table exists' and 'table is empty' would be a good indication that the installation is a restart and to continue where a logical 'this is where I left off' point would be. Should the installer check if UTF8 is on and adjust key lengths accordingly? Is there an available SQL script to manually create the tables so that there is no need for the alter table updates? Is there some other way to do a manual installation without using the install script? Thanks again for your help and have a great day! Phade.
Drop the database and install 1.5beta4, which has table definitions compatible with your MySQL configuration.
Is 1.5b4 stable enough to use in a production environment? Is there an ETA on the official 1.5 release? I was eventually able to get 1.4.7 installed, but I had to modify the installer code in the tables.sql file. Is it detremental to site performance to use cl_sortkey(cl_to(205),cl_sortkey(128)) in the categorylinks table? Thanks again and have a great day!
