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Installing MW 1.21 on Solaris and Oracle: Wrong values set for wgDBuser, wgDBname, wgDBserver
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Author: jfehrman

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While installing MediaWiki-1.21.1 with Oracle on a Solaris machine I ran into an installer issue when the LocalSettings.php file was written. LocalSettings.php did not have the correct values in the wgDBserver, wgDBname, and wgDBuser slots.

I was able to work around this problem by filling the install prompts in the web browser as you normally would and then fixing the database information after I downloaded the LocalSettings.php. Hopefully this helps someone with the same issue.

Version: 1.21.x
Severity: normal

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bz49821

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 22 2014, 2:07 AM
• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-Installer.
• bzimport set Reference to bz49821.
• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).
• bzimport created this task.Jun 19 2013, 2:43 PM
• Aklapper added a comment.Jun 19 2013, 11:09 PM

Thanks for taking the time to report this!

Which exact database backend and database version is this about?

Also, it's not entirely clear to me in which order which steps were performed, unfortunately.

• Aklapper added a comment.Jun 26 2013, 10:40 AM

Joe: Which exact database backend and database version is this about?

• bzimport added a comment.Jun 26 2013, 11:10 AM

jfehrman wrote:

Andre Klapper: We are using Oracle 10 as the database I believe. I'm not sure what you mean by "which order steps were performed". The install process can only really happen one way unless I am mistaken.

• Aklapper added a comment.Jun 27 2013, 9:02 AM

Any chance to find out the *exact* Oracle version, as there are a number of patchset version since 2003?

LocalSettings.php did not have the correct values in the wgDBserver,
wgDBname, and wgDBuser slots.

How did the values differ?

• bzimport added a comment.Jun 27 2013, 10:50 AM

jfehrman wrote:

It has been a few weeks now but I believe wgDBuser and wgDBname had something like wikiuser and wgDBserver had something like wikiserver. It basically looked like they were variables that were displaying not the variable values. Sorry that I am vague on these details.

• Aklapper renamed this task from Install failures - Oracle to Installing MW 1.21 on Solaris and Oracle: Wrong values set for wgDBuser, wgDBname, wgDBserver.Dec 21 2016, 10:54 AM
• Aklapper lowered the priority of this task from Low to Lowest.
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• Aklapper added a comment.Sep 26 2019, 8:28 AM

Heads-up: As per RFC discussion in August 2019, the previously experimental support for using Oracle or MSSQL as database backends in MediaWiki core has been removed in MediaWiki 1.34, so this task might end up as declined in the future.

Mainframe98 closed this task as Declined.Mar 25 2021, 4:31 PM
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In T51821#5525032, @Aklapper wrote:

Heads-up: As per RFC discussion in August 2019, the previously experimental support for using Oracle or MSSQL as database backends in MediaWiki core has been removed in MediaWiki 1.34, so this task might end up as declined in the future.

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