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adding session.save_path to the index.php of mw-config helped

Okay, I have downloaded, extracted, and uploaded my copy of MediaWiki. When I go to the wiki, it says "LocalSettings.php not found. Please set up the wiki first." So i click set up the wiki. Then no matter what I do, this error is thrown at me: "Error starting session: session_start() [<a href='function.session-start'>function.session-start</a>]: open(/var/php_sessions/sess_095f5068adbc6b7c45d3fbdfa00113a3, O_RDWR) failed: No such file or directory (2) " I'm not sure what to do, please help! Freeman2001 01:03, 8 January 2012 (UTC)

This post was posted by Freeman2001~mediawikiwiki, but signed as Freeman2001.

On the manual, it says to change the directory permission to 777 if such error occurs

I had the same problem, but changing permissions around didn't help. It turned out to be an issue with session_save_path in php.ini: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.session-save-path.php

use ssh insert this: chmod -R 777 /var/php_sessions/ Okay~

This problem is php.ini problem:

>hosting control panel >>PHP Scripting

edit php.ini and go to this place:

; where MODE is the octal representation of the mode. Note that this
; does not overwrite the process's umask.
; http://php.net/session.save-path
session.save_path = "/var/php_sessions" 

change this

session.save_path = " /var/php_sessions "

to

session.save_path = " /home/users/web/xxxx/xxxxxx/public_html/phpsessions "

see http://www.netfirms.com/knowledgebase/beta/article.bml?ArticleID=1290&type=How%20To#Nugget_1374

you can "autoinstall" Mediawiki using install script site; https://secure.installatron.com/apps#cmd=browser&display=mediawiki

anyway you have to change your " session.save_path" address

Sadly, the install of MediaWiki 1.21.3 did this for me as well. Instead of getting "file not found" after the "MediaWiki 1.21.3 LocalSettings.php not found. Please set up the wiki first." message, it simply forwards me onto "mw-config/index.php" and displays the same info. If I click the 'set up wiki' link again, it forwards me to: "mw-config/mw-config/index.php" and so on.

Changing the session.save_path did nothing, neither did changing the permissions to 777 for the save_path.

Any advice?

Sadly, the install of MediaWiki 1.21.3 did this for me as well. Instead of getting "file not found" after the "MediaWiki 1.21.3 LocalSettings.php not found. Please set up the wiki first." message, it simply forwards me onto "mw-config/index.php" and displays the same info. If I click the 'set up wiki' link again, it forwards me to: "mw-config/mw-config/index.php" and so on.

Changing the session.save_path did nothing, neither did changing the permissions to 777 for the save_path.

Any advice?

Worked it out. For some inexplicable reason, it won't install using Google Chrome. Used Firefox in a last ditch attempt, and it seems to be going through the install.

Worked for me.

I had a botched install in the directory before and failed to download the LocalSettings file at the end.

Deleted the dir, started again and had this issue.

Switching to Firefox was a work around

This works. Add:

ini_set('session.save_path',realpath(dirname($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']) . '/../session'));

to mw-config/index.php and includes/NoLocalSettings.php (before session start)

where in the file do I add ini_set('session.save_path',realpath(dirname($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']) . '/../session'));

Thank you

at the very first line after <?php

This page says "Warning: MediaWiki is not compatible with PHP 7.4.0 to 7.4.2 due to an upstream bug. See phab:T246594 for more information." Could we replace "bug" by plainer language? The phab page did not seem to be informative. This seems clearer, if it is correct:

"Warning: MediaWiki cannot run on PHP 7.4.0 to 7.4.2 because of a bug in PHP. See phab:T246594 for more information."

Done

Hi there,

I'm trying to install MediaWiki 1.34.2 in my domain space hosted by a provider. The following error message occured right after "Administratorkonto wird erstellt…" (creating admin account):

[XxRmpVKlVr4AALNFucMAAAAK] /RPGWiki/mw-config/index.php?page=Install Error from line 48 of /homepages/18/d372413260/htdocs/RPGWiki/vendor/liuggio/statsd-php-client/src/Liuggio/StatsdClient/Factory/StatsdDataFactory.php: Class 'Liuggio\StatsdClient\Entity\StatsdDataInterface' not found

Here's what I've done so far:

1. checking the installation requirements: I've found PHP 7.4.7, PCRE enabled, JSON support enabled, mysqlnd 7.4.7 => looks OK, doesn't it !?

2. downloaded mediawiki-1.34.2.tar.gz to my Windows 10 client

3. unpacked the tarball to a folder using 7-Zip

4. fixed the issue concerning the 2 identical named files "StatsdDataFactory" in [folder]\vendor\liuggio\statsd-php-client\src\Liuggio\StatsdClient\Factory manually

5. uploaded the folder to my web space via FTP using WinSCP

6. started the set-up. Everything went smoothly until the error message above occured.

Backtrace showed the following information:

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#0 /homepages/18/d372413260/htdocs/RPGWiki/includes/libs/objectcache/wancache/WANObjectCache.php(755): Liuggio\StatsdClient\Factory\StatsdDataFactory->increment(string)

#1 /homepages/18/d372413260/htdocs/RPGWiki/includes/user/User.php(2597): WANObjectCache->delete(string)

#2 /homepages/18/d372413260/htdocs/RPGWiki/includes/libs/rdbms/database/Database.php(3439): User->{closure}(Wikimedia\Rdbms\DatabaseMysqli)

#3 /homepages/18/d372413260/htdocs/RPGWiki/includes/libs/rdbms/database/DBConnRef.php(68): Wikimedia\Rdbms\Database->onTransactionPreCommitOrIdle(Closure, string)

#4 /homepages/18/d372413260/htdocs/RPGWiki/includes/libs/rdbms/database/DBConnRef.php(603): Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBConnRef->__call(string, array)

#5 /homepages/18/d372413260/htdocs/RPGWiki/includes/user/User.php(2599): Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBConnRef->onTransactionPreCommitOrIdle(Closure, string)

#6 /homepages/18/d372413260/htdocs/RPGWiki/includes/user/User.php(4031): User->clearSharedCache(string)

#7 /homepages/18/d372413260/htdocs/RPGWiki/includes/session/SessionManager.php(315): User->saveSettings()

#8 /homepages/18/d372413260/htdocs/RPGWiki/includes/user/User.php(2744): MediaWiki\Session\SessionManager->invalidateSessionsForUser(User)

#9 /homepages/18/d372413260/htdocs/RPGWiki/includes/user/User.php(2699): User->setPasswordInternal(string)

#10 /homepages/18/d372413260/htdocs/RPGWiki/includes/installer/Installer.php(1695): User->setPassword(string)

#11 /homepages/18/d372413260/htdocs/RPGWiki/includes/installer/Installer.php(1624): Installer->createSysop(MysqlInstaller)

#12 /homepages/18/d372413260/htdocs/RPGWiki/includes/installer/WebInstallerInstall.php(44): Installer->performInstallation(array, array)

#13 /homepages/18/d372413260/htdocs/RPGWiki/includes/installer/WebInstaller.php(270): WebInstallerInstall->execute()

#14 /homepages/18/d372413260/htdocs/RPGWiki/mw-config/index.php(80): WebInstaller->execute(array)

#15 /homepages/18/d372413260/htdocs/RPGWiki/mw-config/index.php(38): wfInstallerMain()

#16 {main}

---

Any ideas? Thanks a lot.

Chris

Hi Guys,

I am getting these error on linux server.

Using Mediawiki 1.31

[503c1292cffc0d8d41f078dd] [no req]   ConfigException from line 53 of /var/www/html/mediawiki/includes/config/GlobalVarConfig.php: GlobalVarConfig::get: undefined option: 'CommandLineMode'

Backtrace:

#0 /var/www/html/mediawiki/maintenance/Maintenance.php(645): GlobalVarConfig->get(string)

#1 /var/www/html/mediawiki/includes/libs/rdbms/database/Database.php(3461): Maintenance::{closure}(integer, Wikimedia\Rdbms\DatabaseMysqli)

#2 /var/www/html/mediawiki/includes/libs/rdbms/database/Database.php(3795): Wikimedia\Rdbms\Database->runTransactionListenerCallbacks(integer)

#3 /var/www/html/mediawiki/includes/libs/rdbms/database/Database.php(3582): Wikimedia\Rdbms\Database->commit(string, string)

#4 /var/www/html/mediawiki/extensions/SemanticWatchlist/src/TableUpdater.php(60): Wikimedia\Rdbms\Database->endAtomic(string)

#5 /var/www/html/mediawiki/extensions/SemanticWatchlist/src/MediaWiki/Hooks/UserSaveOptions.php(74): SWL\TableUpdater->updateGroupIdsForUser(integer, array)

#6 /var/www/html/mediawiki/extensions/SemanticWatchlist/src/MediaWiki/Hooks/UserSaveOptions.php(68): SWL\MediaWiki\Hooks\UserSaveOptions->performUpdate(array)

#7 /var/www/html/mediawiki/extensions/SemanticWatchlist/src/HookRegistry.php(77): SWL\MediaWiki\Hooks\UserSaveOptions->execute()

#8 /var/www/html/mediawiki/includes/Hooks.php(177): SWL\HookRegistry->SWL\{closure}(Bechtel\KMUser, array)

#9 /var/www/html/mediawiki/includes/Hooks.php(205): Hooks::callHook(string, array, array, NULL)

#10 /var/www/html/mediawiki/includes/user/User.php(5511): Hooks::run(string, array)

#11 /var/www/html/mediawiki/extensions/Bechtel/src/KMUser.php(310): User->saveOptions()

#12 /var/www/html/mediawiki/extensions/Bechtel/maintenance/Batch.php(190): Bechtel\KMUser->setLastRun(ConvertibleTimestamp)

#13 /var/www/html/mediawiki/maintenance/doMaintenance.php(94): Bechtel\Batch->execute()

#14 /var/www/html/mediawiki/extensions/Bechtel/maintenance/Batch.php(257): require_once(string)

#15 {main}

I have use this but still getting error.

Manual:$wgCommandLineMode

Kindly help me.

Be sure you have an updated version of SemanticWatchlist compatible with 1.31.

Maybe you need to disable this extension during install. Some of them may be not compatible with the installer or cause strange errors.

I have installed mediawik but whenever i runs Batch.php

Then i gets this error message

This may be a problem with that Bechtel extension (I didn't notice it before, sorry), that doesn't set the command line mode properly.

@Ciencia Al Poder Thanks for you suggestion.

Finally i got solutions,

We have set these Global key in location setting files.

$[WIKI PRE FIX]CommandLineMode = true;

$[WIKI PRE FIX]StatsdServer = false;

In wiki page these details are not mentions clearly.

After upload all the files on the server. I go to the page to follow installation but the page is comp-letely blank. What I have done wrong? What is missing?

Have a look [[Manual:Errors_and_symptoms#You_see_a_Blank_Page|here]].

I have no idea why but the link does not work in my previous post. See here. Unsolved mysteries all over the place. Robert Stack, I miss you.

EditThis.info should upgrade

This wiki EditThis.info has been running MediaWiki 1.15

EditThis.info should upgrade

This wiki EditThis.info has been running MediaWiki 1.15

So? However they should upgrade.

Upgrade

Trying to upload the XML file, but the web server has returned an error:

MediaWiki 1.15 is very ancient and not supported. Please upgrade.

@Ciencia Al Poder: The ideas may upgrade MediaWiki to 1.28.2

I just used softaculous to upgrade our Mediawiki installation from 1.23.6 to 1.26.2 on a Litespeed server. The script appeared to installed the latest SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi extension, and I also see a recent composer.json in the folder. But I am seeing Category:Pages_with_syntax_highlighting_errors on every wiki page that uses the extension.

I looked at the extension page and noticed the recommendation to use

wfLoadExtension( 'SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi' );

so I put that into my LocalSettings.php instead of the old "require_once..."

but that doesn't change the error indication. I don't know what else to try - suggestions are welcome.

Note: the only language that is used is 'xml'.

The extension page says that since 1.26 it requires composer when downloading from git. Although you don't seem to download from git, unless softaculous does that.

Try redownloading the extension again from the extension distributor page.

I have narrowed the problem down to no installation of Composer. I am having difficulty installing this on our shared host. This new dependency is quite a headache - I suggest you make it more clear in your release notes.

I am trying to install a mediawiki on an hosted space by aspnix, it's a Windows Server 2008 R2. I am trying using the installation offered by the hosting platform but also trying to make installation by myself.

In any case I keep the result the home page says to me "MediaWiki 1.20.3 LocalSettings.php not found. Please set up the wiki first. " I accept the suggest and I click "set up the wiki" pointing to /mw-config/index.php. This page returns an Internal Error: MessagesEn.php is missing.

Please can you help me to solve this matter?

Thank in advance, Marco

I am trying to install a mediawiki on an hosted space by aspnix, it's a Windows Server 2008 R2. I am trying using the installation offered by the hosting platform but also trying to make installation by myself.

In any case I keep the result the home page says to me "MediaWiki 1.20.3 LocalSettings.php not found. Please set up the wiki first. "

I accept the suggest and I click "set up the wiki" pointing to /mw-config/index.php. This page returns an Internal Error: MessagesEn.php is missing.

Please can you help me to solve this matter?

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