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Comment on LdapAuthentication 1.2c released by Ryan Lane

Ryan Lane — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 21:48:02 +0000

That happens on occasion. Wikimedia staff are working on making the extension distributor a little more reliable. That error should hopefully clear up soon enough.

Comment on LdapAuthentication 1.2c released by Joel Uckelman

Joel Uckelman — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 21:42:44 +0000

There seems to be a problem with the download link. This is what I get:

Subversion encountered an error:

svn: Working copy ‘/mnt/upload6/private/ExtensionDistributor/mw-snapshot/trunk/extensions’ locked
svn: run ‘svn cleanup’ to remove locks (type ‘svn help cleanup’ for details)

Comment on Using the LDAP Authentication Plugin for MediaWiki – The Basics (Part 1) by Ryan Lane

Ryan Lane — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:03:43 +0000

Nearly 100% of the time, a blank screen means the ldap library is missing in php. Run the following in ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install -y php5-ldap
sudo apache2 restart

After doing so, try it again.

Comment on Helpdesk system and datacenter inventory Semantic MediaWiki prototypes added to my prototype wiki by Ryan Lane

Ryan Lane — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:01:31 +0000

Yeah, I guess so. I’ve been really short on free time lately, but will hopefully have more coming soon. I’ll try to put one out.

Comment on Helpdesk system and datacenter inventory Semantic MediaWiki prototypes added to my prototype wiki by enterprise_user

enterprise_user — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:16:38 +0000

Any chance of a guide for the inventory system similar to the one for the ticket system?

Comment on Using the LDAP Authentication Plugin for MediaWiki – The Basics (Part 1) by Ian

Ian — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 06:47:47 +0000

Hi guys,

I’m trying to get this going for our mediawiki that runs on ubuntu server.

We run a Windows 2003 domain.

I actually like trying to figure out problems myself as it’s how I learn best, but I am just running into brick walls.

Basically what is happening is when I try and log in I am just getting a blank page.

I CAN query the DC I am trying to get to using ldapsearch.

When I have tried enabling debugging using:

$wgLDAPDebug
and

$wgDebugLogGroups

I have tried using debug levels 1 2 and 3.

Using either option, nothing appears in the file specified with $wgDebugLogGroups

Using 2 and 3 the following is displayed at the top left hand corner of media wiki after clicking the login button:

Entering validDomain
Uer is not using a valid domain
Setting domain as: invaliddomain
Entering modifyUITemplate

However the login screen then doesn’t load properly and you can’t attempt to login (the login fields are missing).

I am running MediaWiki 1.13.3
LDAP Authentication PLugin is show as version 1.1g ( I installed using LdapAuthentication-MW1.13-r36354.tar.gz).
Ubuntu is 9.04

Can anyone point me in the correct direction as to how to troubleshoot this. Maybe let me know how to get some meaningful logs.

Cheers

Ian

Comment on Helpdesk system and datacenter inventory Semantic MediaWiki prototypes added to my prototype wiki by Ryan Lane

Ryan Lane — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 16:27:32 +0000

I was thinking patch and vulnerability tracking, trouble ticket tracking, work order tracking (to serve as a todo for sys admins). Being able to associate ticket actions with systems over a period of time can give you insight into common problems on those systems, and can hopefully help you avoid similar problems in the future.

I should have more time to try to integrate these things soon.

Comment on Helpdesk system and datacenter inventory Semantic MediaWiki prototypes added to my prototype wiki by enterprise_user

enterprise_user — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 16:20:05 +0000

Echoing the interest in seeing your take on a hardware inventory system integrated with the helpdesk system.

Comment on Creating a simple ticketing system with Semantic MediaWiki by Ryan Lane

Ryan Lane — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 19:32:51 +0000

Dynamic Sidebar is only compatible with MediaWiki 1.16+, unless you patched “includes/Skin.php”; see the documentation for this on the extension’s page.

Comment on Creating a simple ticketing system with Semantic MediaWiki by enterprise_user

enterprise_user — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 16:22:26 +0000

When adding either of the following lines to MediaWiki:Sidebar,

GROUP-SIDEBAR
CATEGORY-SIDEBAR
USER-SIDEBAR

The Wiki in its entirety fails to work, providing only blank pages. The following error is in the apache log:

PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined method SkinMonoBook::addToSidebar() in /var/lib/mediawiki/extensions/DynamicSidebar/DynamicSidebar.body.php on line 35

The same problem is found when incorporating the patch suggested on the DynamicSidebar extension page. The only way to reverse the total failure is to go back in one’s browser history and re-save MediaWiki:Sidebar without the GROUP/CATEGORY/USER-SIDEBAR calls. Alternatively, one could disable DynamicSidebar altogether.

MediaWiki 1.15.1
PHP 5.3.2-1ubuntu4 (apache2handler)
MySQL 5.1.41-3ubuntu12.3