When the powers that be at 757 upgraded PHP, they turned on various magic_quotes functions so that a program that needed them could be run. The problem with magic_quotes being turned on is that it breaks MediaWiki. The side effect noted here (on an already installed MediaWiki 1.6.8) was the addition of cumulative addition of delimiters ('\' characters) in front of every ' and ".
Credit goes to Count at 757 for pointing me to the (for now, tentative) fix of adding the following near the top of LocalSettings.php and index.php:
set_magic_quotes_runtime(0);
That's it! Please let me know if this doesn't fix it or causes other problems.
Wiki entry here.
No comments:
Post a Comment