Author: timwi

Description:
BUG MIGRATED FROM SOURCEFORGE
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=919777&group_id=34373&atid=411192
Originally submitted by Daniel Keshet (dkesh) 2004-03-19 21:46

I installed mediawiki on my machine (FreeBSD, mysql3.something,
php4.3) once successfully, then nuked it (removing the database).
I then tried installing it again, but I get the following error
message on screen:

Sorry! The wiki is experiencing some technical difficulties, and
cannot contact the database server.

And the following in my apache logs:

[Fri Mar 19 02:22:50 2004] [error] PHP Warning: mysql_error():
supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource
in /web/users/dkesh/wiki/includes/Database.php on line 196
[Fri Mar 19 02:22:50 2004] [error] PHP Warning: Cannot modify
header information - headers already sent by (output started
at /web/users/dkesh/wiki/config/index.php:30)
in /web/users/dkesh/wiki/includes/Database.php on line 413
[Fri Mar 19 02:22:50 2004] [error] PHP Warning: Cannot modify
header information - headers already sent by (output started
at /web/users/dkesh/wiki/config/index.php:30)
in /web/users/dkesh/wiki/includes/Database.php on line 448
[Fri Mar 19 02:22:50 2004] [error] PHP Warning: Cannot modify
header information - headers already sent by (output started
at /web/users/dkesh/wiki/config/index.php:30)
in /web/users/dkesh/wiki/includes/Database.php on line 449

I don't know why it's having trouble talking to the database, but I
get the same error if I put in a non-existent database server. I
think the installer should give a more descriptive error message, if
possible.

• Additional comments ------------------------

Date: 2004-03-21 00:20
Sender: SF user vibber

Unable to reproduce...
FreeBSD: 5.2.1
MediaWiki: 1.2.0rc4
PHP: 5.0.0b4
MySQL: 4.0.16

Never had trouble on my Mac either; PHP 4.3.2. I'll see if I
can find an
MySQL 3 to check against...

Version: unspecified
Severity: normal