mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> writes: > On 2018-07-08 08:53, Sharon Kimble wrote: >> I'm unable to get mediawiki from the repos working as it is consistently >> failing at accessing the database as part of its configuration at the >> beginning. I say 'consistently' as the same problem has occurred when >> trying to install mediawiki from source, and this is a clean fresh >> install so I think that it must be something in my /home because it is a >> completely new fresh install. But what? >> >> Can anyone give me some guidance here please, as I've been looking in my >> /home for anything 'mariadb' or 'mysql'-like but without any success. >> >> When I input my database details into >> 'http://localhost/mediawiki/mw-config/index.php?page=DBConnect' I get an >> error message saying - >> >> ╭──── >> │DB connection error: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (localhost). >> │ >> │Check the host, username and password and try again. >> ╰──── >> >> To my thinking, its obviously comparing what I'm inputting into >> something, and deciding that they don't match, so therefore giving me an >> error message. But what is it comparing to? >> >> Thanks >> Sharon. > > I don't know what error you get if mysqld is not running but best see if it is > > "ps ax | grep mysql" > > > mick Thanks for replying Mick. This is what I get using a slightly better command than yours (you missed out the 'u' in aux :) ╭──── │$ ps aux | grep mysql │mysql 962 0.0 0.0 698580 65656 ? Ssl Jul07 0:59 /usr/sbin/mysqld ╰──── Which is about right as I rebooted yesterday. And I've just checked and I'm still not able to get past the 'Connect to database' page in the mediawiki setup process. Thanks Sharon. -- A taste of linux = http://www.sharons.org.uk DrugFacts = https://www.drugfacts.org.uk Debian 9.4, fluxbox 1.3.7, emacs 25.3.2, org 9.1.13
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