Upgrading MediaWiki

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Contents 1 Upgrade from 1.3.5 with MySQL 3.23.58 to 1.4.4 with MySQL 4.0.24 1.1 Backup 1.2 Restore Process 1.2.1 Install a fresh Wiki 1.3 General Notes 1.3.1 Running maintenance scripts

Upgrade from 1.3.5 with MySQL 3.23.58 to 1.4.4 with MySQL 4.0.24

Backup

Backed up the database with:

mysqldump -a wikidb >/home/backupuser/backups/aspwiki-db.mysql

Backed up the whole wiki directory:

tar -cvf /home/backupuser/backups/aspwiki-www.tar /var/www/wiki/

Restore Process

Install a fresh Wiki

• Upgraded MySQL
• Restored the database
• Deleted the wiki directory.
• Untar the new wiki tarball
• Coppied the images directory over from the previous version
• Read through INSTALL
• 'chmod a+w config'
• Opened up the browser and clicked on the config link
  • Choose wikidb as the db name
  • Choose wikiuser and the db user
  • No prefix
• The configuration script made the necessary updates to the database

====Restore the old database

General Notes

Running maintenance scripts

In order to run any of the maintenance scripts you must do:

• cp AdminSettings.sample AdminSettings.php (in the wiki home dir)
• set '$wgDBadminuser' and '$wgDBadminpassword' in that file