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Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination

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PrometheusAla (talkcontribs)

I've an error on my main page http://bahai.kg

Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination

But at most other pages same thumbnails is working fine. Please help.

87.123.63.183 (talkcontribs)

In your page, the error message is presented in Russian: Ошибка создания миниатюры: Не удаётся сохранить эскиз по месту назначения. I see it as well.

When this error happens, one of the directories, which are used to store the thumbnails, is not writable. You can fix this by making sure that the directory in fact _is_ writable or by setting a different directory in $wgTmpDirectory; and this directory then has to be writable as well.

PrometheusAla (talkcontribs)

http://bahai.kg/index.php/%D0%91%D0%B0%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%B8 - but at other pages same quotes looking normal

PrometheusAla (talkcontribs)

I've already using $wgTmpDirectory

$wgTmpDirectory = "$IP/images/temp";

Ciencia Al Poder (talkcontribs)

You can temporarily enable $wgShowExceptionDetails and open thumb.php on your browser to force the generation of a thumbnail, like for example http://bahai.kg/thumb.php?w=30&f=Aquote1.png. The output of thumb.php may show you more information.

Anyway, in addition to check permissions on $IP/images/temp, the problem may be on $IP/images/ itself. Be sure to grant write permissions to the server recursively.

The images that are being displayed may be because the thumbnail already exists on the server.

PrometheusAla (talkcontribs)

As I tested problem is exactly in w=30 - http://bahai.kg/thumb.php?w=29&f=Aquote1.png - all other widths are generating correctly )) please help

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Pronull (talkcontribs)

how to create an infobox? i've installed Scribunto and yet i'm still lost. Thanks

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Is there a syntax highlight extension for the source editor?

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Innosflew (talkcontribs)

I'm looking for a syntax highlighter extension or something for source editing on the article pages on my wiki. I'm looking for something that works similarly as the syntax highlighter in Wikia's source editor.

Ciencia Al Poder (talkcontribs)

See w:User:Cacycle/wikEd

Innosflew (talkcontribs)

Thanks. I've tried it and it works flawlessly, but is there any other alternative to wikEd that has little bit more modern look?

2003:86:AD43:7800:A166:7A9F:392A:4700 (talkcontribs)

I have made a copy of my wiki from one hoster to another one.

I have made an copy of all sites and templates with copy and paste the source code.

In the old one i have no problems, but in the new one i have a lot of <td> </tr> </table> errors, and the tables are not right.

What is the problem, why shows me the new wiki so much errors?

Mike

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password reset on a wiki using whitelist

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Tenbergen (talkcontribs)

We have a wiki that uses whitelist and most pages are not accessible without logging in. Some pages are whitelisted. This used to work fine. For about ohhh a year now, the password reset functionality is broken. If a user resets their password, a temporary password is sent. On first login, the user is forced to reset the password. However, that reset password screen is now not accessible, so the user can't finish the password reset. I imagine I need to whitelist a system message, but I don't know which one. Or, is his even deeper in the software so I can't whitelist it?

87.123.55.67 (talkcontribs)

Does it help, if you add "Special:PasswordReset" to $wgWhitelistRead?

If not, I would temporarily grant the "read" right again, use the password reset mechanism and see, to which page it brings me. This is the page, which you have to add to $wgWhitelistRead!

Tenbergen (talkcontribs)

"Special:PasswordReset" is already in $wgWhitelistRead

I set

$wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit']                 = true;

$wgGroupPermissions['*']['read']                 = true;

But still get the error.

Tenbergen (talkcontribs)

Does anyone know the name of the page where you are sent to after you first log in with a reset password, and where you are forced to change your password? Not the Special:PasswordReset... Setting group permissions edit and read to true isn't enough, so I wonder if maybe even a new permission tag was implemented?

I'd be almost as interested in a work around, I just have to be able to add users to this wiki again. My hosting doesn't allow command line access, so I can't use the PHP script. I can edit the files (eg localsettings) and I can access the DB directly with phpmyadmin, but with the encrypted passwords that does me little good.

Tenbergen (talkcontribs)

OK, no answers here, hopefully my ticket (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T121660) will get somewhere

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PaleoIsh (talkcontribs)

Hi all,

I'm looking for something similar to this extension, but one that is supported/uses an up to date version of MW: Extension:TagAsCategory

Many thanks for your help!

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24.39.1.140 (talkcontribs)

I posted here, (Post is called Problems), a week ago, and still have not gotten a response. If I could get one that would be great. Thanks.

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87.123.58.223 (talkcontribs)

The URL /index.php/Special:AbuseFilter looks like you are using short URLs. Maybe the problem is somehow related to the short URL configuration?

67.244.58.187 (talkcontribs)

I dont think thats it though.

87.123.58.223 (talkcontribs)

And what do you think it is?

108.114.10.142 (talkcontribs)

How should I know?

Ciencia Al Poder (talkcontribs)

Disable short URLs (basically, remove all rewrite rules and restore/adapt $wgArticlePath) and try again

LegoFan4000 (talkcontribs)

I was also thinking that it might have something to do with mod_security.

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Groteell (talkcontribs)

I'm using version 2.05

How can I:

- Upload a videoclip from Youtube?

- How can I show this in different screen?

- How can I show this in the question (not a clickable link but ready to go)

87.123.42.56 (talkcontribs)

This is not MediaWiki related, right?

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80.100.160.230 (talkcontribs)

Hi all,

I installed Mediawiki on my own server, but when i go to the URL for starting the installation of MediaWiki, there is no CSS... only pure HTML what shows up... Does anyone know anything how to solve this?

Floris

87.123.42.56 (talkcontribs)

Can you chck, what the output of the URL /mw-config/index.php?css=1 in your wiki is? Does it show a PHP error?

Also see Manual:Errors_and_symptoms#The_installer_is_unstyled_when_installing_under_IIS, which might help.

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Spintop26 (talkcontribs)

Hello to all the wiki fans. I am new and have sent in for a book on wiki. Have already setup a local wiki to play with it and would like to know how to create different instances on wiki on same hosted server along with adding a different database. Did the install with Xammp control panel. The problem is that the instructions in wiki is not so clear. Is there another set of instruction or preferably a video I can what on how to setup the localsettings.php and add new database on one install of mediawiki?

87.123.42.56 (talkcontribs)

Have you read Manual:Wiki family? I fear that is the one documentation, which currently is available on that topic on MediaWiki.org.

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