[Pkg-mediawiki-devel] Bug#438935: mediawiki1.10: Config-webpage not reachable (fresh install, apache2)

[Arnd M�ock]

Package: mediawiki1.10
Version: 1.10.1-2
Severity: normal

I have got problems to set my mediawiki installation up properly. I 
tried to follow the instructions from the README.Debian.gz of this 
package. Apache2 seems to work and is delivering the default webpage 
("It works") when http://localhost is called. However, calling adresses like
"localhost/mediawiki/" "localhost/mediawiki/config/index.php" and so on, 
return a error 404. 

I tried dpkg-reconfigure mediawiki1.10 and as a result the symlink  
mediawiki1.10.conf -> /etc/mediawiki1.10/apache.conf was created in 
/etc/apache2/conf.d/ was created, but the error 404 remains. 

The article about running mediawiki on debian from 
mediawiki.org which is also referenced in the README (BTW, the 
web-adress is outdated. The page moved to 
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Running_MediaWiki_on_Debian_GNU/Linux) 
only covers Versions 1.5 and 1.7. If there are additional steps 
necessary to configure mediawiki (apart from calling 
localhost/mediawiki/config/) please update the README to include 
installation procedures for new installations.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.17 (SMP w/1 CPU core; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE at euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE at euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages mediawiki1.10 depends on:
ii  apache2                       2.2.3-5    Next generation, scalable, extenda
ii  apache2-mpm-prefork [httpd]   2.2.3-5    Traditional model for Apache HTTPD
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.14     Debian configuration management sy
ii  mime-support                  3.39-1     MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
ii  php5                          5.2.3-1    server-side, HTML-embedded scripti
ii  php5-cli                      5.2.3-1+b1 command-line interpreter for the p
ii  php5-mysql                    5.2.3-1+b1 MySQL module for php5

Versions of packages mediawiki1.10 recommends:
ii  mysql-server                  5.0.45-1   MySQL database server (meta packag
ii  mysql-server-5.0 [mysql-serve 5.0.45-1   MySQL database server binaries

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