Reggie Thomson’s Diary

I’ve just installed MediaWiki on my windows machine. It was fairly straightforward according to the installation instructions.

I found in addition to changing the following two lines from varchar(255) to varchar(150):

  job_cmd varchar(150) NOT NULL default ”,
job_title varchar(150) binary NOT NULL,

I also had to change the following lines:

  pr_type varchar(150) NOT NULL,
pr_level varchar(150) NOT NULL,

I was having problems with my test website after deactivating the gengo plug-in. Whenever I clicked on a link, I got a “Woops - the server tried all options but could not find the page you requested” (or similar) message.

To solve it, I reactivated gengo (this meant that the admin panel disappeared - blank page because I haven’t enabled phperrors). I then used phpmyadmin to put the gengo plug-in as the last in the list in “active_plugins” on the table “wp-options”. This allowed me to navigate to the “gengo” page and perform an “uninstall”, which simultaneously deactivated the plug-in. I now have all my permalinks available again.