Tag: wiki
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New Mediawiki install produces error “Fatal exception of type MWException”
Saw this on a new Mediawiki install where all of the optional extensions were selected, LocalSettings.php had been uploaded to the server and that’s as far as it would go. To fix, open up LocalSettings.php and comment out the line: require_once( “$IP/extensions/LocalisationUpdate/LocalisationUpdate.php” ); You should now be able to refresh the…
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How to change a user’s password in Mediawiki
If you have a wiki you may need to change a user’s password from time to time; you can do this from the back end quite easily. First, access mysql: mysql -u root -p Log in using your root password. Next, list your databases: show databases; On our test system this…