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.
BG