Comments on: How-To: Install MediaWiki on Windows Home Server

By: MR2

MR2 — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 20:25:02 +0000

Yup, still no help here. Even tried emailing this guy – no response.

By: MR2

MR2 — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 23:48:56 +0000

Not much help here.

By: MR2

MR2 — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 18:51:51 +0000

# PHP 5.2.6 installed
# Found database drivers for: MySQL
# PHP server API is isapi; using ugly URLs (index.php?title=Page_Title)
# Have XML / Latin1-UTF-8 conversion support.
# Session save path (c:\php5\session) appears to be valid.
# PHP's memory_limit is 128M bytes.
# Couldn't find eAccelerator, APC or XCache; cannot use these for object caching.
PHP has encountered an Access Violation at 01B8ABDA

Thanks Drashna,

Same thing – deleted IUSR_**** and created NETWORK SERVICE as suggested.

Looking in C:\php5, there is no error.log being created.

Have tried moving the mysql and php directories to the front of the path and replacing older libmysql.dll files as well as several reboots.

Used php and mysql addins as the initial install. This is a new install of WHS (w all updates) and the wiki (using these addins) has worked previously.

Thanks again for your help

By: Drashna

Drashna — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 17:17:04 +0000

To the media wiki folder. Actually, "NETWORK SERVICE" works better, from what I've seen "iusr_{servername}" inherits the permissions for that group. Either way, make sure you apply full read access to one or both of those user accounts.

If that doesn't work, check the php_errors.log file specified in the php.ini file for errors.

By: MR2

MR2 — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 19:06:56 +0000

Should I have used "IUSR_SERVER" in the setup somewhere?

By: MR2

MR2 — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 18:37:57 +0000

I click “Install MediaWiki!” and I get:

# PHP 5.2.6 installed
# Found database drivers for: MySQL
# PHP server API is isapi; using ugly URLs (index.php?title=Page_Title)
# Have XML / Latin1-UTF-8 conversion support.
# Session save path (c:php5session) appears to be valid.
# PHP's memory_limit is 128M bytes.
# Couldn't find eAccelerator, APC or XCache; cannot use these for object caching.
PHP has encountered an Access Violation at 01C8ABDA

By: rolo sandoval

rolo sandoval — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:59:22 +0000

Hi!
I still have the problem :

PHP 5.2.9-2 installed Could not find a suitable database driver!
For MySQL, compile PHP using –with-mysql, or install the mysql.so module
For PostgreSQL, compile PHP using –with-pgsql, or install the pgsql.so module
For MSSQL, compile PHP using –with-mssql not ready, or install the mssql not ready.so module

I added the lines:
";extension=php_mysql.dll"
";extension=php_mysqli.dll"
"extension=php_iisfunc.dll"

and nothing happens , what can i do?!

By: Andy

Andy — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 09:54:36 +0000

I’m having a devil of a time getting PHP and Mediawiki to work. Could it be some interference from what HP Media Smart is trying to do? I haven’t been able to get the php info page. The sympton I’m getting from http://localhost/wiki is a 403 error. I looked and haven’t seen that question resolved here (see Tademos’ question).

By: Drashna

Drashna — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 08:33:48 +0000

403 is a permissions access problem, and it means that either your wiki files aren’t accessible by IUSR_SERVER (or whatever the account is on your computer), or that the php files (in c:\php\) are not accessible by ISUR_SERVER. Also, the forums are an easier place to discuss the problem. And there is a thread for MediaWiki in the Wiki Discussion section.

And at Harry, there is a walkthrough for increasing the size of your partitions in the WGS Wiki. Also, you need to actually use a “recovery” disk that supports NTFS (should be anything remotely recent), and boot off that disk. DO NOT install to WHS, as it won’t resize the active partition anyhow.

By: Drashna

Drashna — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:46:37 +0000

@Harry, sorry to hear about your storm. The 20GB partition is indeed hard coded in to the installer at early stages, and this has been a problem for a lot of people. There are a number of programs that can do what you want, but I recommend trying it on a fresh system with nothing important on it, because you may end up having to reinstall.

By: Harry

Harry — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 12:47:16 +0000

Due to the recent “bad” weather here in the “Mid West”, my WHS server took a shot. Had to replace the APC UPS and the 230GB WD Harddrive. Back ups saved most of the good stuff.
I replaced the 230GB with a 500GB (read 1/2 TB) drive. I was still hoping to “punch-out” to a 50GB c:\ partition. I have the “real estate” now. The install never ever mentions changing the size of the c:\ slice. This is “too” automatic.
Partition Magic 8.0 does not work on 2003 Server software. (I tried several permutations.) I have found Paragon 9.0 Personal. That is the next effort. I just want to push the c:\ out to 50GB for a comfort zone in using Mediawiki on the WHS.
Is the 20GB limit “hard coded’ for that size? Is this going to be another attempt at something “stupid”? I have not found any article about larger WHS c:\ drives, yet; no one confesses to there being a limit.

Comments Please.

Thank You.

By: Drashna

Drashna — Tue, 27 May 2008 18:09:27 +0000

@Harry: Good point. However, unless you are adding *a lot* of content, there is about 14GB of room left on the system drive in a fresh install. That and one of the problems I ran into was that on my system and a few others, PHP doesn’t like being anywhere but in c:\inetpub.