Last modified: 2010-05-15 15:38:53 UTC
It seems as though users who have logged in can't edit webpages, where as anonymous users can. When I log in, all is normal. I can select edit for a webpage, make my neccecary changes, but when I hit Save, it will redirect me to the page i would get if i hit preview. Again, and again and again. I'm using firefox 1.0.7, I've tried turning off the cache, it doens't help. The problem persists after me trying my orginal user, a new user I made, and an alternate person on IRC did the same thign with the same problem persisting. My wiki is installed following the instructions on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Running_MediaWiki_on_Sourceforge.net. The database account on sourceforge was originally the admin account, but I recently changed that to simply the read/write account (in LocalSettings.php, $wxDBuser) to see if it would help with the problem, but to no effect. I have also noticed that my user preferences won't change, no matter how many timees i try to change them and hit save.
Try to reproduce this problem on a box that isn't hosted on sourceforge
Double-check your session directory. Confirm that it is writable, keeping in mind that most files on sourceforge.net are no longer writable from web scripts.
SourceForge's server farms don't like sessions, or writing to files, or anything marginally useful for a web application. Incidentally, the instructions you followed weren't official, and were written taking the current version of the software at that time into account. The chances they're out of date or no longer valid are high, given that MediaWiki has expanded, and SourceForge have made several administrative changes as of late. Also; you selected version 1.5rc4. Why are you using a release candidate when we have release versions (1.5.3) available?
It is an accident, I must have picked the wrong version, I just changed it.
I'm not sure the wiki should behave in this manner even if it is a sessions problem, I mean the problem and what seems like the solution are unrelated, I get no errors or anything.
(In reply to comment #6) > I'm not sure the wiki should behave in this manner even if it is a sessions > problem, I mean the problem and what seems like the solution are unrelated, I > get no errors or anything. MediaWiki uses sessions to save something called an edit token. Hence, it uses sessions to save. Hence, a problem with sessions will cause a problem with editing.
I seem to have found a problem, I configured LocalSettings.php to point to thw wrong sessions directory (I mispelt persistent). However, even after changing the directory to the correct place, the problem persists. If there is some sort of a delay or configuration cache, then its a non issue.
Ok, i have solved a problem, it was a twofold problem, however the new permission settings on the file are loose. I will remain by the idea that mediawiki should give some kind of a warning when its sessions directory isn't writeable or is non existent.
(In reply to comment #9) > Ok, i have solved a problem, it was a twofold problem, however the new > permission settings on the file are loose. I will remain by the idea that > mediawiki should give some kind of a warning when its sessions directory isn't > writeable or is non existent. Resolving fixed. File that as a separate feature request if so desired.
I'm following this bug, because I still have it! When a logged user try to save a page, he gets this message: <<<<<<< A database query syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software. The last attempted database query was: (SQL query hidden) from within function "Block::load". MySQL returned error "1: Can't create/write to file '=c:\programmi\xampp\tmp\#sql_970_0.MYI' (Errcode: 22) (localhost)". >>>>>>> the error is generated by the function sendCacheControl (in the file includes\OutputPages.php) when this test fails: if( !$this->uncacheableBecauseRequestvars() && $this->mEnableClientCache ) my folder c:\programmi\xampp\tmp\ exists and it is writeble.
Please don't post on unrelated bugs. Please see http://dev.mysql.com/ for documentation on MySQL, or whatever support forums for XAMPP there are for your problems with it.
