Uwe Brauer wrote:
> Regarding
Re: [Mediawiki-l] how to upgrade running 1.9 to 1.16 with all the extensions; Brion Vibber
<brion(a)pobox.com> adds:
In most cases an upgrade should be pretty
painless; follow the directions in
the file UPGRADING. Basically:
* back everything up
* drop in the new source
* run maintenance/update.php
I am not 100 % sure I understand step 2. Is the
following
correct.
Suppose my wiki (vs 1.9) is in
/var/www/wiki
- I rename it to say wiki-1.9
- I unpack mediawiki-1.16 in /var/www/ rename it to
wiki (change user and group),
- copy LocalSettings.php from wiki-1.9 into wiki (and
also the image and extension directory)
- I run maintenance/update.php is using the browser.
Is this correct?
Thanks
Uwe
Almost. The last point is to be run from the console:
php maintenance/update.php
Also, renaming the files does not backup the database, you should dump
it first. See
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Backing_up_a_wiki
Since extension configuration is kept in LocalSettings, if the
extensions are compatible with 1.16 (check if there's a newer version!)
they should work out of the box with your configuration.