[Pkg-mediawiki-devel] Bug#530322: Nothing at http://www.myserver.org/mediawiki

[Kingsley G. Morse Jr.]

Package: mediawiki
Version: 1:1.14.0-1
Severity: normal


I'm looking forward to using mediawiki, and in the
process of setting up this fine software, I
noticed that the instructions in 

    /usr/share/doc/mediawiki/README.Debian.gz

say that mediawiki can be accessed at

    http://www.myserver.org/mediawiki

but that didn't work for me.

Nor did replacing "www.myserver.org" with
"localhost" or "127.0.0.1".

However, uncommenting the line that says

    # Alias /mediawiki /var/lib/mediawiki

in 

    /etc/mediawiki/apache.con

solved the problem.

I would like to humbly suggest either

    a.) uncommenting that line in the package's
    file, and having the install script restart
    apache2, or

    b.) explaining in 
        
            /usr/share/doc/mediawiki/README.Debian.gz

        that one should manually uncomment the
        line and do

            $ apache2ctl restart

        as root.

Thanks,
Kingsley

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages mediawiki depends on:
ii  apache2                   2.2.11-4       Apache HTTP Server metapackage
ii  apache2-mpm-worker [httpd 2.2.11-4       Apache HTTP Server - high speed th
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]     1.5.26         Debian configuration management sy
ii  mime-support              3.26-1         MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
ii  php5                      5.2.9.dfsg.1-2 server-side, HTML-embedded scripti
ii  php5-mysql                5.2.9.dfsg.1-2 MySQL module for php5

Versions of packages mediawiki recommends:
ii  mysql-server              5.0.81-1       MySQL database server (metapackage
ii  mysql-server-5.0 [mysql-s 5.0.81-1       MySQL database server binaries
ii  php5-cli                  5.2.9.dfsg.1-2 command-line interpreter for the p

Versions of packages mediawiki suggests:
ii  clamav                 0.93.3.dfsg-1     anti-virus utility for Unix - comm
ii  imagemagick            7:6.2.4.5.dfsg1-1 Image manipulation programs
pn  mediawiki-math         <none>            (no description available)
pn  memcached              <none>            (no description available)
ii  php5-gd                5.2.9.dfsg.1-2    GD module for php5

-- debconf information:
* mediawiki/webserver: apache2