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* PHP 5.2.2-pl1-gentoo installed
* Found database drivers for: MySQL
* PHP server API is apache2handler; ok, using pretty URLs (index.php/Page_Title)
* Have XML / Latin1-UTF-8 conversion support.
* PHP's memory_limit is 128M. If this is too low, installation may fail!
* Have zlib support; enabling output compression.
* Couldn't find Turck MMCache, eAccelerator or APC. Object caching functions cannot be used.
* Found GNU diff3: /usr/bin/diff3.
* Found ImageMagick: /usr/bin/convert; image thumbnailing will be enabled if you enable uploads.
* Found GD graphics library built-in.
* Installation directory: /home/httpd/htdocs/mediawiki
* Script URI path: /mediawiki
* Environment checked. You can install MediaWiki.
Generating configuration file...
* Database type: MySQL
* Loading class: DatabaseMysql
* Attempting to connect to database server as root...success.
* Connected to 5.0.38-log
* Database wiki exists
* There are already MediaWiki tables in this database. Checking if updates are needed...
...hitcounter table already exists.
...querycache table already exists.
...objectcache table already exists.
Creating categorylinks table...Query "CREATE TABLE `categorylinks` (
cl_from int(8) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
cl_to varchar(255) binary NOT NULL default '',
cl_sortkey varchar(86) binary NOT NULL default '',
cl_timestamp timestamp NOT NULL,
UNIQUE KEY cl_from(cl_from,cl_to),
KEY cl_sortkey(cl_to,cl_sortkey),
KEY cl_timestamp(cl_to,cl_timestamp)
) TYPE=InnoDB
" failed with error code "Specified key was too long; max key length is 1000 bytes (localhost)".