paladox2014 Posted June 13, 2014 Share Posted June 13, 2014 hi please could you enable popen because mediawiki now requires this be enabled to work correctly. and I doint think it is a security risk. http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.popen.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Byron Posted June 13, 2014 Share Posted June 13, 2014 This support request is being escalated to our root admin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paladox2014 Posted June 15, 2014 Author Share Posted June 15, 2014 Thanks. Mediawiki are investigating the issue because it was introduced in 1.22 but something changed in 1.23 to cause the issue. there are many discussions on mediawiki about the issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krydos Posted June 17, 2014 Share Posted June 17, 2014 popen() is disabled for security reasons. Can you post a link to where mediawiki requires this command? I find it surprising that a wiki needs to be able to execute shell commands. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolstech Posted June 17, 2014 Share Posted June 17, 2014 It's apparently using popen for file uploads and management. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Support_desk#Cannot_upload_files_since_the_update_from_1.22.7_to_1.23._43983 It may or may not be a bug... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yashrs Posted June 17, 2014 Share Posted June 17, 2014 @Paladox2014, stay at 1.22 just now, enabling popen could be very dangerous. Mediawiki will fix this in some time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paladox2014 Posted June 17, 2014 Author Share Posted June 17, 2014 hi link is here but this is just a tread reporting the issue https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Thread:Project:Support_desk/Cannot_upload_files_since_the_update_from_1.22.7_to_1.23. Mediawiki says that popen was introduced in 1.22 but someone changed it and has now caused the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paladox2014 Posted June 19, 2014 Author Share Posted June 19, 2014 Hi they have fixed the problem now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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