Evelyn Yoder wrote:
Yes, this was my process:
- downloaded the files from the MW download page:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download
- used 7-zip to extract the files
- used FileZilla to copy the contents of MW1.14 folder to the hosted site
(first, I renamed /images folder, /extensions folder and /skins folder to preserve the customized contents; I renamed localsettings.php to localsettings-old.php)
- opened the wiki in a web browser, and installed MW the usual way
this is when the odd Notices appeared:
>> *Notice*: Use of undefined constant NS_FILE_TALK - assumed'NS_FILE_TALK' in * /home/platfor1/public_html/wiki/includes/DefaultSettings.php**1930* on line
>> Notice*: Undefined variable: wgAjaxSearch in */home/platfor1/public_html/wiki/includes/Setup.php* on line *272*
Continued the process, since nothing seemed to be fatal...I am now re-thinking this decision...
- moved localsettings.php from /config folder
- deleted folders: /images, /extensions, /skins, and renamed previous
folders
- added my custom stuff to the localsettings.php file
- launched the site
this is when I got the error message: *Fatal error*: Undefined class
constant 'FOR_THIS_USER' in * /home/platfor1/public_html/wiki/includes/Article.php* on line *440*
The error indicates that your includes/Revision.php was from the old version, and includes/Article.php was from the new version. It's possible that FileZilla aborted halfway through the upload, and you didn't notice the error. I seem to remember errors are fairly subtle in FileZilla. We've talked about the possibility of doing an integrity check in config/index.php to check for this sort of thing.
By the way, the skins directory is not compatible between major versions of MediaWiki, you shouldn't keep your old one. You should keep track of the changes you made to it, and then apply them again to a fresh copy of it for each version.
-- Tim Starling