Usermap for OSGeo wiki

[christian]

Installation of a Mediawiki extension to display a Usermap and maps of every users home location.

Tasks:

• Postgressql installation (Martin)
• editing of the mediawiki settings (Martin)
• documentaion for using the extension (Christian)

Note: In the installed version on the OSGeo wiki are some major changes to the UserLocalization extension (​http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UserLocalization). You can find the actual code at: ​http://christian-willmes.de/software/userMap.tar.gz

[christian]

• It seems that the code I wrote is not compatible to Mediawiki 1.11 (I wrote and tested it under a 1.13.2 instalation), maybe it is something with the RawHTML settings. I try to find out what the problem is and than make a workaround for it.

[martin]

I had been planning to update the Wiki software anyway, therefore I'd like to announce a Wiki maintenance window at 15:00-16:00 UTC,

Martin.

[christian]

great, thanks for the wiki update martin! :)

But there is now a problem with the database access via php, folowing error is caused:

*Warning*: preg_match() [function.preg-match <​http://wiki.osgeo.org/function.preg-match>]: Unknown modifier 'p' in */var/www/mediawiki-1.13.2/includes/EditPage.php* on line *747*

*Warning*: pg_connect() [function.pg-connect <​http://wiki.osgeo.org/function.pg-connect>]: Unable to connect to PostgreSQL server: could not translate host name "dbname=usermap" to address: Name or service not known in */var/www/wiki_osgeo/extensions/userMap/umDB.php* on line *18*

*Warning*: pg_last_error() [function.pg-last-error <​http://wiki.osgeo.org/function.pg-last-error>]: No PostgreSQL link opened yet in */var/www/wiki_osgeo/extensions/userMap/umDB.php* on line *19* Verbindungsaufbau fehlgeschlagen: host= dbname=usermap user=usermap password=

looks like host and pw are not providet?

[martin]

Yup, not providing host an pw was the plan .... apparently it didn't work.

The 'regular' PostgreSQL client connect defaults to using the Unix domain socket when the hostname is empty - and I had configured the PostgreSQL DB to accept connections without password authentication for this very special case. Apparently the PostgreSQL interface in PHP doesn't inherit this behaviour - thus now I have configured 'regular', password-authenticated database connect from within the PHP script,

Martin.

[christian]

Its running now. :-) Again, thanks very much to Martin!

A first documentation of how to use this extension can be found at: ​http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/UserMap_Documentation

I imagine, that there will maybe some bugs comming up in the first time. So we can leave this ticket open? Or should we adress a new ticket for every upcoming bug?

[tmitchell]

Closing - looks like things are running fine from past few months.