This actually isn't all that ancient (MediaWiki has unit tests making sure upgrades work from at least 1.15. And really, anything after 1.5 should probably work fine). Normal upgrade procedure should work fine.
-- Brian
On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 1:59 PM, Bakkies Gatvol bakgat8@hotmail.com wrote:
I have been asked to "make production" an ancient intra-net installation
here is the Special:Version info
Installed software Product Version MediaWikihttp://www.mediawiki.org/ 1.18.3 PHPhttp://www.php.net/ 5.3.10 (apache2handler) MySQLhttp://www.mysql.com/ 5.1.62-log Installed extensions Special pages CategoryTreehttp://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CategoryTree Dynamically navigate the category structurehttp://creswiki.se.fss.aramark.com/wiki/Special:CategoryTree Daniel Kinzler Renameuserhttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Renameuser Adds a special pagehttp://creswiki.se.fss.aramark.com/wiki/Special:RenameUser to rename a user (need renameuser right) Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason and Aaron Schulz User Merge and Deletehttp://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:User_Merge_and_Delete (Version 1.6.1)Merges references from one user to another userhttp://creswiki.se.fss.aramark.com/wiki/Special:UserMerge in the wiki database - will also delete old users following merge. Requires usermerge privileges Tim Laqua Parser hooks CategoryTreehttp://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CategoryTree Dynamically navigate the category structurehttp://creswiki.se.fss.aramark.com/wiki/Special:CategoryTree Daniel Kinzler External Datahttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:External_Data (Version 1.3.6)Allows for retrieving structured data from external URLs, databases and other sources Yaron Koren, Michael Dale and David Macdonald Google Calendarhttp://www.bastianschaefer.org/PHP/MediaWikiExtensions Display Google Calendar Bastian Schaefer ImageMaphttp://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ImageMap Allows client-side clickable image maps using <imagemap> tag Tim Starling RSS Readerhttp://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RSS_Reader (Version 0.2.5)Adds <rss> tag Artem Kaznatcheev Other Google Maps Extensionhttp://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Google_Maps (Version 0.9.4)<gm-descs> Evan Millerhttp://www.evanmiller.org/ includehttp://mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:include This lets you include static content from a local or remote URL. Noah Spurrier (Patched by Matthieu Moy) LDAP Authentication Pluginhttp://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LDAP_Authentication (Version 1.2e)LDAP authentication plugin with support for multiple LDAP authentication methods Ryan Lane Extension functions efCategoryTree, efRSSReader, wfGoogleCalendar, wfGoogleMaps_Install and wf_include Parser extension tags <categorytree>, <gallery>, <googlecalendar>, <googlemap>, <googlemapkml>, <imagemap>, <include>, <nowiki>, <pre> and <rss>
It is probably running under somebody's desk off an ancient PC.
the OS is =>
FreeBSD snokx0fbsd01.fubar.com 8.2-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p4 #0: Mon Nov 14 17:25:54 MST 2011
We are a redhat shop
I would much appreciate if the seasoned experts here could suggest the best way to get from here to anything NOW.
We want to put it on a virtual server, which I imagine is fine.
I doubt I could upgrade in one go - but how many steps does it take? And what are they.
There appears to be backups made as follows
/usr/local/bin/mysqldump -u backup yadda yadda
tar -zcf /backups/mediawiki-current.tar.gz mediawiki
I have worked with other wiki's but not MediaWiki particular.
It looks like there are rpms's for redhat - could I use that or do I have to use the tar ball. I don;t really care - I know how to compile - I just want to best chance of success.
Much appreciate any pointers.
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