Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Troubles with PhpWiki recently developed

[Joby W. <joby@u.washington.edu>]

Johnny L. Wales wrote:
>>1) The error is caused when a variable is assumed to be an object of a 
>>particular type, but for some reason it isn't (probably a null).  Sounds 
>>  like it might have been a bad write (note there is no pagedata).
>>
>>Does it fail on this page or all pages?
> 
> 
> Just this one page. Actually, there are 2 of them now. But, now that you
> mention a bad write, I think I recall my last fsck having some troubles
> with bad sectors. Hmm.. Maybe that problem is bigger than I thought.
> 
> 

Yeah you might want to track that down...

>>2) The error message says exactly where the files are:
>>/home/mark/public_html/phpwiki/lib/Template.php line 212
>>/home/mark/public_html/phpwiki/lib/WikiDB.php line 536
> 
> 
> No, those aren't the files I wanted to know the location of. I mean the
> files where the wiki data is stored. Like, if I edit a page named
> "FoOo" and I write in "Bar!", I wanna know where that "Bar!" is stored.
> 
> 

Phpwiki, unlike twiki, uses databases not flatfiles.  The default is to 
use a gdbm db in /tmp.  The settings are in 
/home/mark/public_html/phpwiki/index.php

>>Which version of phpwiki are you using?  Without that it is pretty hard 
>>to figure out what is happending or you could post +/- 10 lines around 
>>the lines in question.
> 
> 
> The last update to the HISTORY file is as follows:
> 02/12/01 More Jeff's hacks:
> 
> * More CSS stuff.  I think it's neat.
> * Added tables! And modified the footnote stuff a litte.
>   See TextFormattingRules for details.
> * Fixed bugs: including (I hope the two which
>   Reini Urban <ru...@x-...> just reported.)  Also added
>   Reini's patches to the README.  Thanks!
> 

Version is listed in /home/mark/public_html/phpwiki/index.php