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122.21.133.199 (talkcontribs)

I am a college student and trying to build a wiki on my own computer using Xampp. But some questions turned out. I cannot figure out what to do. Would someone help me please? I would be so appreciated.

Here are the errors showed up.

Please include all of the lines below when reporting installation problems. PHP 5.3.5 installed PHP server API is apache2handler; ok, using pretty URLs (index.php/Page_Title) Have XML / Latin1-UTF-8 conversion support. PHP's memory_limit is 128M. If this is too low, installation may fail! Have zlib support; enabling output compression. Neither Turck MMCache nor eAccelerator are installed, can't use object caching functions GNU diff3 not found. Found GD graphics library built-in, image thumbnailing will be enabled if you enable uploads. Installation directory: F:\xampp\htdocs\mediawiki Script URI path: /mediawiki Environment checked. You can install MediaWiki. Warning: $wgSecretKey key is insecure, generated with mt_rand(). Consider changing it manually. Generating configuration file...

Database type: mysql

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in F:\xampp\htdocs\mediawiki\includes\Title.php on line 132

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in F:\xampp\htdocs\mediawiki\includes\Title.php on line 219

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in F:\xampp\htdocs\mediawiki\includes\Skin.php on line 134 PHP is linked with old MySQL client libraries. If you are using a MySQL 4.1 server and have problems connecting to the database, see http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/old-client.html for help. Attempting to connect to database server as root...success. Connected to 5.5.8; You are using MySQL 4.1 server, but PHP is linked to old client libraries; if you have trouble with authentication, see http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/old-client.html for help. Created database wikidb Creating tables... using MySQL 4 table defs...Query "CREATE TABLE `user` ( user_id int(5) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment, user_name varchar(255) binary NOT NULL default , user_real_name varchar(255) binary NOT NULL default , user_password tinyblob NOT NULL default , user_newpassword tinyblob NOT NULL default , user_email tinytext NOT NULL default , user_options blob NOT NULL default , user_touched char(14) binary NOT NULL default , user_token char(32) binary NOT NULL default , user_email_authenticated CHAR(14) BINARY, user_email_token CHAR(32) BINARY, user_email_token_expires CHAR(14) BINARY, user_registration CHAR(14) BINARY, PRIMARY KEY user_id (user_id), UNIQUE INDEX user_name (user_name), INDEX (user_email_token) ) TYPE=InnoDB " failed with error code "You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'TYPE=InnoDB' at line 18 (localhost)".

Ron Barker (talkcontribs)

Hi

I do not have a clue as to the above error messages. I am a complete idiot when it comes to mediawiki. What I suggest you do is start again. I think that will be quicker than sorting out the errors. There is as step by step guide at:

http://guides.jlbn.net/setwiki/setwiki1.html Please give JLBN my regards for the help they have given me.

PS I download a more recent verson of mediawiki 1.15.4 rather than the 1.11.1 - I don't know if there will be any problems if you go any higher. I