Author: jan.eglinger

Description:
I installed MediaWiki 1.5beta1 on an Apache/1.3.29 (Unix) environment with CGI
PHP Version 4.3.10 and external MySQL 4.0.20 (not localhost).

After installation page rendering, login and user account creation worked OK.
When I wanted to restrict the page access (see bottom *),

• loading new (uncached) pages resulted in a white page containing the letters

"" before redirecting to the actual page.

• trying to login resulted in an empty page without any redirection, making it

impossible to login.

Undoing all the changes in DefaultSettings.php and LocalSettings.php did NOT fix
this problem.

I tried as well with Firefox (1.0.4) and with Internet Explorer (6.0) from
WindowsXP.

*Access restriction was done:
by commenting (#) the following lines in DefaultSettings.php :

#$wgGroupPermissions['*'    ]['createaccount']   = true;
#$wgGroupPermissions['*'    ]['read']            = true;
#$wgGroupPermissions['*'    ]['edit']            = true;

and entering the following lines into LocalSettings.php :

1. Pages anonymous (not-logged-in) users may see $wgWhitelistRead = array ("Main Page", "Special:Userlogin", "Wikipedia:Help");

Version: 1.9.x
Severity: major
OS: Windows XP
Platform: PC
URL: http://www.familie-westerkamp.de/w/