Mediawiki: Unable to change Wiki name

Mediawiki: Unable to change Wiki name

Posted by: leejkennedyDH
Posted on: 2009-04-13 11:25:00

Hi, does anyone know how to amend the name of the wiki on the dreamhost apps mediawiki settings page? it's currently set as 'My Mediawiki' and no matter what I do I cannot change it?

Thanks in advance...

Re: Mediawiki: Unable to change Wiki name

Posted by: leejkennedyDH
Posted on: 2009-04-15 04:26:00

The 'Change WIKI name' on the panel.dreamhosts.com/manage >> Change Settings link is broken.

If i change the title to 'mediawiki' i get an error telling me i can't choose that name for techincal reasons
If i change the title to anything else, I get confirmation the change was successful but when i refresh the wiki the old title and all the links remain as 'My MediaWiki'

Do any of the Dreamhost admins read this forum?



Re: Mediawiki: Unable to change Wiki name

Posted by: sdayman
Posted on: 2009-04-15 05:26:00

Admins *might* read the forum from time to time, but it's better to drop them a note.

http://dreamhost.com/contact.cgi

-Scott

Re: Mediawiki: Unable to change Wiki name

Posted by: leejkennedyDH
Posted on: 2009-04-15 11:28:00

Thanks

Re: Mediawiki: Unable to change Wiki name

Posted by: cartman2000
Posted on: 2009-04-16 12:34:00

did you add "&action=purge" to the end of the url? Doing that will purge the cache for that page. You won't see an update to a page immediately, if you change the wiki's config, until you do that.


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Re: Mediawiki: Unable to change Wiki name

Posted by: leejkennedyDH
Posted on: 2009-04-16 13:21:00

to be honest i didn't try that. i've since upgraded to full hosting and deleted the dreamhostapps so i'm unable to test whether your solution would work...

it does seem odd that this would be required though... i would have thought that changing a setting, and having it confirmed that the change was successful, would mean that going back into the admin settings page would show the new information regardless of what the cache is displaying on the page. oh well. BTW i am still awaiting a response from the tech team so i'll post the response if/when i get one

Thanks

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