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This page is on my watchlist, so if you want to leave me a message I will receive the next time I log on, leave it here.

I have also created a category listing all the extensions installed on this site, and detailing instructions how to install and what if any modifications were made to make them work on this site. This is still being written so not currently complete.

Question about AWC

hello admin, just wondering if you know an easy way to get the discussion tab to go to a forum/thread? even a dynamic link like they have at http://examples.anotherwebcom.com/wikis/MediaWiki/Category_talk:MediaWiki:Forum would be an improvement
thanks --Phalseid 13:59, 5 June 2008 (PDT)

Hello Phalseid

Unfortunataley at this point, there is no way to do as such, others have asked for such a feature and I have attempted various MediaWiki syntax to make it work, with no success

May I suggest you post this feature request in the Debuggung & Testing forum as while I have helped with this extension, I am not the developer, and that forum will get the attention of AWC (Joe) himself.

Good luck

--Admin 21:39, 5 June 2008 (PDT)

Help on phpfreechat extension

Hello, I'm creating a new site using MediaWiki and I take example from you website because I love it. I see that mediawiki phpfreechat extension works well on your site. How did you succeed in making it working well ? When I try to use this extension, I have the problem of chat loading and loading, exactly as you described at the bottom of this page. Did you make changes to this extension, or did you use another extension for the chat tab ? I use MW 1.12 and the latest version of the extension. Thanks for you Help. Phil - 7 may 2008

Gidday Phil

Its been a while since I installed the chat extension, and know it gave me many problems, so I am not sure I can recall everything I did to get it to work, but here is some things I did:

For a start, follow my conversation with Firebreather here...when ever I have a problem with an extension, I ask the same help question in multiple places to better attempt to get an answer.

What I did change, was the version of phpfreechat I had installed...I did have the most current available on the phpfreechat site, but at Firebreathers recommendation, I changed that to phpfreechat-1.0-beta11, and that worked. (I think I needed to clear my cache after the change, as while it did not work straight away, it worked later without any additional modifications, proberly after I closed my browser and shutdown, thus, clearing my cache)

I should point out I use MediaWiki 1.11, so there is a point of difference there.

Hope that helps, let me know --Admin 21:20, 7 May 2008 (PDT)

Thank you for your help. I will try your solution :-) -- Phil - 7 may 2008

Extension:SocialProfile

I tried to install Extension:SocialProfile in my wiki but had some similar bugs as you described already. Could you give my some detail hints to remove prefix of tables and fix those bugs i) errors in DB query when request a friend or view a list of requested friends; ii) could not upload user avatar, iii) the send button of the board did not work. Looking forward to hearing you. Vietbio 12:47, 13 May 2008 (PDT)

Hello Viebio

To be honest, I would not recommend SocialProfile as it is very buggy, as you have noticed, and even with the changes I have made, I am still having issues.

Having managed to get every feature to work, the major issue I am still having is the excessive warnings appearing, that many will remain in the screen, so is very unsightly...as described here.

The 2 major changes I made, was removing the use of a prefix on my wiki...and following the steps detailed by Roulion here.

The removal of the prefix got everything working and looking how it should (but with warnings)...and as far as I could tell, the only thing Roulion's modifications achieved was to fix the appearance of the 'Board', so it displayed the text correctly rather than in code format (when there are no message posted to the board)

To remove your prefix, assuming you have access to your database, you will have to go into whatever admin control panel you use (phpMyAdmin?), select the database your wiki uses, then you have to remove the prefix of every table within that database, otherwise you will find other extensions you may have installed using the prefix, will no longer work...

To remove the prefix from each table, in phpMyAdmin, you would go into 'Operations', and you could either rename the table, or create a copy...

I suggest creating a copy, so that if something does not work once all done, ya can come back to the original configuration easily...

Your old table will likely have a name such as: prefix_filearchive...you want to make a copy called: filearchive...so is exactly the same name, just minus the prefix, whatever your may be...

As already stated, this needs to be done to every table concerning the wiki and installed extensions...otherwise they will not work.

Once all the tables have been renamed or copied, then you need to edit your localsettings.php file...

Find the line including:

$wgDBprefix         = "prefix";

And change that to:

$wgDBprefix         = "";

So you remove the prefix (whatever yours is)

That is it, your wiki and extensions should now work like usual, but without using a prefix, and as a result, the SocialProfile extension will run better.

If all runs smothly, then go back into phpMyAdmin (or whatever you use), and mass delete all the old tables with the prefixes that are no longer required.

Hope that helps, but like I said, even now I find it still buggy so its your call...but if you do proceed, and make more progress on the remaining issues I have, I would love to hear back from ya how ya went.

Good luck --Admin 20:03, 14 May 2008 (PDT)

I now have this extension running issue/bug free, and now recommend it.

If anyone wants help with installing it, I am happy to explain what I did to make it work. -- Admin 22:59, 21 May 2008 (PDT)

It's such a great news. Could you kindly explain it in a separating how-to wiki page? And I also wonder how about CPU usage of your wiki? Which hosting provider for this wiki? Because my wikis MW1.12 with total ~ 19.000 pages and 500 visits /day cause a high excessive CPU and memory usage. Do you have the same situation? Vietbio 04:47, 21 May 2008 (PDT)