On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 9:59 AM, Bakkies Gatvol bakgat8@hotmail.com wrote:
I have been asked to "make production" an ancient intra-net installation
Should be able to do the upgrade in one go. The installer will take your database through successive upgrades from 1.18 to current.
I'd put it on RHEL or CentOS if you're a redhat shop.
Don't use the RPM (missing extensions), use the tarball. There's nothing to compile. Just untar the distribution and follow the upgrade guide at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading
Make sure you have a backup of the database (like you mentioned) and also the images directory.
The biggest challenge I see is that you're using LDAP authentication, and the whole Session Management / Authentication bit changed in REL1_27
Or, call me and I'll set you up on a maintained and supported distribution of MediaWiki http://qualitybox.us/
~ Greg
Greg Rundlett https://eQuality-Tech.com https://equality-tech.com/ https://freephile.org