Can't access http://dev.gibberlings3.net/index.php/Main_Page

[Yovaneth]

Anyone any idea why Firefox reports a 'this page is redirecting in a way that will never be completed' and IE7/IE8 doesn't say anything, but never gets there? Have I got a local browser setting that is preventing access?

 

-Y-

[the bigg]

the G3 wiki has been broken for the last X years (it was already broken before Cam left).

[cmorgan]

We are looking for ways of rebuilding it from the backed up database, but for the time being forseeable future, it is not likely to have a quick fix. That's why all of the main site links to it got edited out, as per devSin's request. Frustrating for all of us.

[Yovaneth]

Thanks guys and - bollix. I was hoping to trawl the code snippets for inspiration; I guess I'll just have to ask.... in the right place, of course!

 

-Y-

[the bigg]

Solution #1: after making a backup, update your mediawiki and ipbwiki software versions.

Solution #2: If any admin has the SQL password, run this query and upload the result somewhere:

 

SELECT page_title, old_text, old_flags
FROM <prefix>page, <prefix>revision, <prefix>text
WHERE page_id = rev_page
AND page_latest = rev_id
AND rev_text_id = old_id

Unfortunately this isn't optimal, because the text can be gzip-encoded (and this is supposed to be fixed from PHP and not SQL). Still, once the data is exported it's trivial to handle presentation.

Mediawiki table documentation.