strange 500 internal server error

Anyone experienced this problem?

My MW182 installation throws a "500 internal server
error". Some of
the special pages work fine, but none of the regular content
pages are
displayed. The Main_Page shows up with navigation elements
but no
content. Following any m-wiki links results in 500 error
pages.

To test the server configuration I made a fresh MW install
with a new
database (w other namespace), and it seems that that empty
MW is
working fine. That should mean that the problem that creates
the 500
messages are in the database not in the php code. I can
access all the
tables from PhpMyAdmin, so its probably an inconsistency in
the
database tables that cause the problem.

Is it possible to repair the MW database tables without
doing harm to the data?

--
Harald Groven
University of Tromsø

link to broken wiki (when mod_rewrite is turned off)
http://www.groven.no/mediawiki182/index.php?title=Mai
n_Page

link to broken wiki (when mod_rewrite is on)
http://www.groven.no/hara
ld
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Harald, I had the same exact problem before. I believe it
has something to
do with pages that have been "edited" (special
pages can't be edited, and
the main page was probably the default). After pulling out
my hair for a 2-3
weeks, I installed MW 1.7.1. In order to keep your current
stuff, backup
your database, and make sure you remember all the settings
you used when you
first installed MW.

If your server doesn't have a MySQL backup utility, you can
do it directly
in PhpMyAdmin. On the left choose "Export", select
your database in the
list, check the box to save it to file, then click Go or
Proceed (can't
remember its caption). Save that file. You might also
consider downloading
all the files from your wiki folder to your local computer,
especially if
you've modified the code of any of them. Then delete all
files in the wiki
folder. Restore the MySQL database (unless you somehow were
able to keep it
intact) and start over with 1.7.1. Hopefully your server
will be as
understanding as mine was! Good luck.

Taylor

On 12/3/06, Harald Groven <haraldgroven.no> wrote:
>
> Anyone experienced this problem?
>
> My MW182 installation throws a "500 internal
server error". Some of
> the special pages work fine, but none of the regular
content pages are
> displayed. The Main_Page shows up with navigation
elements but no
> content. Following any m-wiki links results in 500
error pages.
>
> To test the server configuration I made a fresh MW
install with a new
> database (w other namespace), and it seems that that
empty MW is
> working fine. That should mean that the problem that
creates the 500
> messages are in the database not in the php code. I can
access all the
> tables from PhpMyAdmin, so its probably an
inconsistency in the
> database tables that cause the problem.
>
> Is it possible to repair the MW database tables without
doing harm to the
> data?
>
> --
> Harald Groven
> University of Tromsø
>
> link to broken wiki (when mod_rewrite is turned off)
> http://www.groven.no/mediawiki182/index.php?title=Mai
n_Page
>
> link to broken wiki (when mod_rewrite is on)
> http://www.groven.no/hara
ld
> _______________________________________________
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> MediaWiki-lWikimedia.org
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