MSSQL should allow opening connections without $wgDBuser being set
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	Rillke
	May 27 2014, 2:54 PM

Description

When using $wgDBWindowsAuthentication [option "Windows Authentication"] in the WebInstaller, $wgDBuser is left empty. This causes that no connection is created in DataBase::__construct() and the consequence is that we get an error message telling us that it cannot connect to the database (despite it could in theory) when attempting to access the main page.

Result:

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(Cannot contact the database server)

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Expected result:

Working wiki despite no DB user name.

Woraround:
Set a dummy user name.

Details

Reference: bz65808

Event Timeline

• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 22 2014, 3:08 AM

• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-libs-Rdbms.

• bzimport set Reference to bz65808.

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Rillke created this task.May 27 2014, 2:54 PM

tstarling added a project: MSSQL.May 19 2017, 10:12 AM

tstarling removed a parent task: T11767: [DO NOT USE] Microsoft SQL Server/MSSQL support (tracking).May 19 2017, 10:15 AM

Krinkle moved this task from Untriaged to Rdbms library on the MediaWiki-libs-Rdbms board.Jun 27 2019, 9:26 PM

Krinkle renamed this task from MSSQL allows opening connections without $wgDBuser being set to MSSQL should allow opening connections without $wgDBuser being set.Jul 23 2019, 4:49 PM

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Krinkle moved this task from Rdbms library to Rdbms: Non-MySQL support on the MediaWiki-libs-Rdbms board.Jul 23 2019, 5:35 PM

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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.

Umherirrender closed this task as Declined.May 29 2021, 6:16 PM

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