Had the same error.
I have a redirect from http to https in apache. Apache does not pass headers on redirect (because a client should do it)
Also, I had
$wgServer = "//brainstorage.amust.local";
Because of that http was used as a protocol for Parsoid.
I've changed it to:
$wgServer = "https://brainstorage.amust.local";
Now everything works
just installed 1.35 on a brand new server, I am getting:
"Something went wrong
Error contacting the Parsoid/RESTBase server (HTTP 415)"
Haven't seen any troubleshooting regarding an HTTP 415 error, does anyone have any pointers where I could look or try?
Thank you
This is the response I get
{"message":"A Content-Type header must be supplied with a request payload.","error":"no-content-type","httpCode":415,"httpReason":"Unsupported Media Type"}
and the trace
#0 /var/www/html/w/extensions/VisualEditor/includes/ApiParsoidTrait.php(279): ApiVisualEditorEdit->requestRestbase(Object(Title), 'POST', 'transform/html/...', Array, Array)
#1 /var/www/html/w/extensions/VisualEditor/includes/ApiParsoidTrait.php(296): ApiVisualEditorEdit->postData('transform/html/...', Object(Title), Array, Array, NULL)
#2 /var/www/html/w/extensions/VisualEditor/includes/ApiVisualEditorEdit.php(189): ApiVisualEditorEdit->postHTML(Object(Title), '<!doctype html>...', Array, NULL)
#3 /var/www/html/w/extensions/VisualEditor/includes/ApiVisualEditorEdit.php(163): ApiVisualEditorEdit->getWikitextNoCache(Object(Title), Array, Array)
#4 /var/www/html/w/extensions/VisualEditor/includes/ApiVisualEditorEdit.php(349): ApiVisualEditorEdit->getWikitext(Object(Title), Array, Array)
#5 /var/www/html/w/includes/api/ApiMain.php(1593): ApiVisualEditorEdit->execute()
#6 /var/www/html/w/includes/api/ApiMain.php(529): ApiMain->executeAction()
#7 /var/www/html/w/includes/api/ApiMain.php(500): ApiMain->executeActionWithErrorHandling()
#8 /var/www/html/w/api.php(90): ApiMain->execute()
#9 /var/www/html/w/api.php(45): wfApiMain()
#10 {main}
and this is the request
[method] => POST [url] => /restbase/local/v1/transform/html/to/wikitext/TestingPage [body] => ([html] => <!doctype html><html><head><base href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/"><base href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/"></head><body><p>Test Text for Test PAGE</p></body></html> [scrub_wikitext] => 1 ) [headers] => ([If-Match] => [Accept] => text/html; charset=utf-8; profile="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Specs/HTML/2.0.0" [Accept-Language] => en [User-Agent] => VisualEditor-MediaWiki/1.35.0-rc.3 [Api-User-Agent] => VisualEditor-MediaWiki/1.35.0-rc.3 )
on the previous message it should say myWebsite instead of en.wikipedia.org (the spam filter was blocking it when I had my website there)
The exact same setup works on my local machine when running with localhost. Same OS, Debian 10.6. Same packages. The only difference is that this error is when deploying on the AWS cloud.
Could it have anything to do with the base ref having to be localhost on the POST message?
Could it be that it should be http and not https, my EC2 instances only have port 80 open, I believe the load balancer forwards http to the EC2 instances?
This appears to be related to HTTPS. When I use http I can save using VisualEditor. I get the error only when using SSL.
Thanks Tstout21
I tied hacking the file /var/www/html/w/extensions/VisualEditor/includes/ApiParsoidTrait.php with the following:
$request['body']['html'] = '<!doctype html><html><head><base href="localhost/w/"><base href="localhost/w/"></head><body><p>Test Text for Test PAGE</p></body></html>';
also tried using http + localhost and http + mywebsite but none worked...
Same issue on 1.36.1 of mediawiki. Tried reinstalling it and it does not work.
For me the problem was in the LocalSettings.php file. The URL path of the installation was there without http. I changed it to https. Now it works.
Thank you!!! After chasing a bunch of different suggestions, this seems to have actually fixed it!
After a new install, I got HTTP 5xx errors. Based on other suggestions, I added an SSL certificate, but then I got HTTP 415 errors instead. I tried other suggestions, but this seems to have actually worked.
For those who stumble upon this, specifically I changed the URL in $wgServer from http: to https:
## The protocol and server name to use in fully-qualified URLs
$wgServer = ...
Sigh. Not sure what else changed (I've been trying different map extensions), but I'm back to HTTP 500 errors from the Visual Editor.
Narrowed this down to pages that I've added a map to for display by Extension:Maps. For example, if I add {{#display_map:145 Athol Avenue, Oakland, CA|zoom=15}} to a test page using edit source, then I get HTTP 500 errors after that when using the Visual Editor.
I have fixed the error by changing http: to https: in the LocalSetting.php file.
Thanks to 138.188.55.41 !
Thanks for the update, I had the same problem and this is what solved it for me