Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Re: My wiki has been corrupted by spammers

[Joel U. <uck...@no...>]

Thus spake Wookey:
> +++ Joel Uckelman [05-06-24 19:59 -0500]:
> > Thus spake Wookey:
> > > I used to have a nice wiki at http://balloonboard.org/wiki but it got fil
> led
> > > up with wikispam :-(
> > > 
> > > You can see the old wiki at http://balloonboard.org/wikitest (which now j
> ust
> > > produces:
> > > lib/DbaDatabase.php:32: Fatal[256]:
> > > dba_open(/var/lib/phpwiki/phpwiki_pagedb.db2,c-): No such handler: db2
> 
> Whilst I am here can someone give me clues on fixing this? I have upgraded
> the server from Debian 3.0 to 3.1 and I think the libdb default version has
> changed from 2 to 4. phpwiki seems to support db2 and 3 formats.
> 
> Do I need to db_dump and db_load my database file in order to convert it
> from v2 to 3. I don't see anything in the man pages saying how to specify
> the format when generating the file with db_load.

I don't know whether this is the case with Debian, but sometime ago the
build of PHP which ships with Fedora stopped being built with GDBM support.
This is the error message you'd get if your PHP wasn't compiled with
the right db support. ('php -m' should list 'dba' for you. If it doesn't,
then that might be your problem.) 
 
> 
> Nope - where is the admin page and how do I do that - I searched for some
> mechanism for dumping the contents but failed to find it - is there some doc
> I missed?

[Snip]

What version of phpwiki are you using?

 
> 
> OK - looking in /etc/phpwiki I see a number of things which look like
> authentication mechanisms. Again are there docs explaining these options, or
> do I just read the comment sin the config file and try and work it out?

The comments in the config explain it what the different methods are.