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I am building a new MediaWiki installation on a CentOS 6.4 system.

Server version: Apache/2.2.15 (Unix)
Server built:   May 13 2013 22:11:16

PHP 5.3.3 (cli) (built: Feb 22 2013 02:51:11) 
Copyright (c) 1997-2010 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2010 Zend Technologies

MediaWiki 1.21.1

mysql Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.1.69, for redhat-linux-gnu (x86_64) using readline 5.1

I can reach the index.php page and get this message

MediaWiki 1.21.1

LocalSettings.php not found.

Please set up the wiki first.

When I click on the Please set up the wiki first. hyperlink,

This is the URL, which is correct.

http://appcentral:8587/mw-config/index.php

The page stays blank, and nothing happens. What should I check to see what is going wrong. This is a fresh, clean installation. There is no existing MySQL DB already setup for the wiki.

Here is the error in error.log under /var/log/httpd.

PHP Fatal error: Class 'DOMDocument' not found in /var/www/arlington_it/includes/cache/LocalisationCache.php on line 546, referer: http://localhost:8587/index.php

Jeff Schaller
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First order of business, find out what logs files are currently being written to:

sudo ls -ltrh /var/log/httpd

The files at the bottom of the list are the most recently modified.

The error messages generated by PHP are probably going to php_errors.log or error_log or ssl_error_log

Try running a tail -f on these files while reproducing your error, they may reveal useful information. For example:

sudo tail -f /var/log/httpd/ssl_error_log
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As it turns out, I needed to install php-xml and restart httpd. The answer was found here.

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