1055321 - ConfirmAccount extension not working in Mozilla Wiki dev (1.23)

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Infrastructure & Operations :: IT-Managed Tools, task)

Description

[Christie Koehler [:ckoehler]]

https://wiki-dev.allizom.org/Special:RequestAccount
Mozilla Wiki dev instance has been upgraded to MediaWiki 1.23 and the ConfirmAccount extension is not working. 

Special:RequestAccount display a blank page. 

Steps to reproduce:

1. Visit main page of wiki: https://wiki-dev.allizom.org/
2. Click "login/create account"
3. Click "request one"

Expected outcome:

User is able to request a new account at Special:RequestAccount

Actual outcome:

User sees a blank screen.

This is a pretty significant blocker to rolling out the update to Stage and Prod since it prevents new users from creating accounts.

Comment 1

[Mark A. Hershberger (hexmode)]

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Errors_and_symptoms#You_see_a_Blank_Page

Comment 2

[C. Liang [:cyliang]]

Tailing out /var/log/php_errors.log, I saw the following error when trying to request an account:

[19-Aug-2014 08:01:11] PHP Fatal error:  Call to undefined method WebRequest::getFileSize() in /data/www/wiki-dev.allizom.org/wiki/extensions/ConfirmAccount/frontend/specialpages/actions/RequestAccount_body.php on line 318

After updating the extension to 1.23, it looks like the page is displaying.  However, when I attempt to submit an account request, I'm getting "A database query error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software."  

Doing some more debugging ....

Comment 3

[C. Liang [:cyliang]]

Looks like I had to run the maintenance/update.php script to get things sorted out.  I was able to submit an account request.  Please re-open this bug if the account request did not make it through.

Comment 4

[Christie Koehler [:ckoehler]]

Looks good, thanks!