Bug 757328

Summary: MediaWiki fails to install with mw-createinstance and PostgreSQL
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Vedran Miletić <vedran>
Component: mediawikiAssignee: Axel Thimm <axel.thimm>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 16CC: axel.thimm, greenrd, tom
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Description Vedran Miletić 2011-11-26 13:45:03 UTC
# mw-createinstance /var/www/mediawiki/test
# chown -R apache:apache /var/www/mediawiki/test
# chcon -R system_u:object_r:httpd_sys_content_t:s0 /var/www/mediawiki/test

Configured /etc/httpd/conf.d/mediawiki.conf and created a database. Results in:

MediaWiki 1.16.5 Installation

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    PHP 5.3.8 installed
    Found database drivers for: MySQL PostgreSQL SQLite
    PHP server API is apache2handler; ok, using pretty URLs (index.php/Page_Title)
    Have XML / Latin1-UTF-8 conversion support.
    Session save path (/var/lib/php/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.
    Found GNU diff3: /usr/bin/diff3.
    Found ImageMagick: /usr/bin/convert; image thumbnailing will be enabled if you enable uploads.
    Found GD graphics library built-in.
    Installation directory: /var/www/mediawiki/test
    Script URI path: /test
    Installing MediaWiki with php file extensions
    Environment checked. You can install MediaWiki.

    Generating configuration file...
    Database type: PostgreSQL
    Loading class: DatabasePostgres
    Attempting to connect to database "mediawiki" as "mediawiki"...
    Checking the version of Postgres...version 9.1.1 is OK.
    Checking for Pl/Pgsql ...OK
    Schema "mediawiki" exists and is owned by "mediawiki". Excellent.
    Setting the timezone to GMT for user "mediawiki" ...OK
    Setting the datestyle to ISO, YMD for user "mediawiki" ...OK
    Setting the search path for user "mediawiki" ...OK
    Connected to postgres 9.1.1
    Creating tables... Warning: fopen(../maintenance/postgres/tables.sql): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /usr/share/mediawiki/includes/db/Database.php on line 2166 FAILED

Could not open "../maintenance/postgres/tables.sql".

Comment 1 Vedran Miletić 2011-11-26 15:34:49 UTC
An upgrade to 1.17, if possible, would likely fix the issue. Release notes [1] mention new installer.

[1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.17

Comment 2 Tom King 2012-01-12 12:36:57 UTC
I'm in no way suggesting that this is the correct way to fix this issue but a simple solution is to alter /usr/sbin/mw-createinstance

It would need to add a symlink to /usr/share/mediawiki/maintenance for the installation to complete successfully.

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