you should just be able to lock the DB (in special pages), run an export of the DB (phpmyadmin or mysqldump)
copy the content dir in its entirty over to the new server, import the DB dump and your all set (oh and unlock the DB on the new server)
Mike Valstar
casper.levy@eu.nabgroup.com wrote:
Hi can anyone point me in the right direction of a guide on how to move mediawiki from one server to another. I tried to do this before and failed with lots of confusing sql errors and erratic behavior so instead i just recreated it from a fresh installation as at that time my wiki had onlya few pages. Now however it has grown quite a bit and i would like to just move the installation to a new server.
Any ideas ? thanks in advance Caspar
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