That seemed to do the trick. Removing $wgDBmwschema allowed the update to
proceed. I'm now getting a different error with my extension (which is
unrelated and on my own plate to fix), but at least the core wiki is
working just fine.
Thanks for the input, especially David D., who hit the nail on the head.
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On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 10:55 AM Jeff Darlington
jeff.darlington@gmail.com
wrote:
> Actually, that looks suspiciously familiar, and looking at my
> LocalSettings.php, $wgDBmwschema *is* present. I never set it; it's a
> default under the "Postgres specific settings" block and has been carried
> over from install to install for years. (I have no idea how old that is; I
> probably first installed MediaWiki back in 2008, maybe?) I'll try removing
> that and see if that works.
>
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> Jeffrey T. Darlington
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>
> On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 10:49 AM David Daw
daw1cb2@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> Hey Jeff,
>>
>> Take a look at this and see if this helps
>>
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Uf63mplrzzuxz0it
>>
>> $wgDBmwschema may need to be removed from or corrected in
>> LocalSettings.php
>>
>> It's also mentioned here :
>>
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.31#Configuration_changes
>>
>>
>> - $wgDBmwschema
>> <
>>
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:$wgDBmwschema%3E
>> now
>> affects all database types. Old MediaWiki versions were setting this to
>> 'mediawiki' during the installer, which may cause errors during the
>> upgrade
>> when your database is not PostgreSQL or MSSQL. In that case, remove
>> this
>> setting from LocalSettings.php.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 9:47 AM Jeff Darlington <
>> jeff.darlington@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > I only run one wiki, and the database has been "wikidb" since I first
>> > installed it years ago. The definition of $wgDBname appears only once
>> in
>> > LocalSettings.php.
>> >
>> > When I upgrade I always extract the tarball into a pristine new folder,
>> > then copy over LocalSettings.php and my one extension. I use symlinks to
>> > point to a common external image folder (which has worked better for me
>> > than copying the image folder back and forth all the time) and for the
>> > site's definition in Apache (i.e., Apache points to the symlink "wiki",
>> > which then points to the currently active MediaWiki code base). When I
>> run
>> > update.php, I always use the raw path rather than the symlink so I know
>> I'm
>> > pointing to the right code.
>> >
>> > My guess is that update.php or some script it depends on isn't honoring
>> > $wgDBname. That said, I can't believe I'm the only person who's using a
>> > custom DB name and thus the only person who is having this problem.
>> >
>> > On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 10:35 AM [[kgh]]
mediawiki@kghoffmeyer.de
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > > This may sound stupid, but are you sure that you are mapping the
>> update
>> > > script to the correct "LocalSettings.php" file? Perhaps you moved
>> around
>> > > folders at some time. Another thing may be that you have the parameter
>> > > twice in your "LocalSettings.php" file and that one value overrides
>> the
>> > > other. Apart from that, I do not know what could be the issue.
>> > >
>> > > Cheers
>> > >
>> > > Am 21.09.2018 um 16:28 schrieb Jeff Darlington:
>> > > > As I stated several months ago, the updater isn't honoring
>> $wgDBname,
>> > > which
>> > > > I have explicitly set in LocalSettings.php to "wikidb":
>> > > >
>> > > > $wgDBname = "wikidb";
>> > > >
>> > >
>> > >
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