[Mediawiki-l] Update 1.14.0 to 1.15.4 queries

Platonides Platonides at gmail.com
Tue Jul 27 22:46:29 UTC 2010


Benjamin Lees wrote:
>> 2) the update instructions say I might not have an AdminSettings.php file
>> but later say I must have one and it's used in the update.php command line.
>> I don't have one for my v1.14.0 mediawiki so do I need this and if not what
>> is the command for running update without it please?
>>
> 
> You won't have it if you haven't upgraded before; you'll need to
> either create it (copy AdminSettings.sample to AdminSettings.php and
> then edit it) or just define $wgDBadminuser and $wgDBadminpassword in
> LocalSettings.php.

In fact, AdminSettings.php is not needed for latest mediawiki versions.
It will try to update with the normal db user (which should then have
enough permissions to do so, of course).




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