Hello again,
I did try to migrate a Wiki as detailed below and it seems to have worked to some extent - except that in the MySQL DB on the origin server many entries contain hard-coded references to the origin server's FQDN - which obviously doesn't work once moved to the destination server. That does not look right. Does anybody know why that would be, and how to get rid of those hard-coded references?
Thanks.
Boris.
On Oct 31, 2007 2:06 PM, Raquel raquel@thericehouse.net wrote:
On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:57:05 -0400 "Boris Epstein" borepstein@gmail.com wrote:
Hello everyone!
If I need to migrate a MediaWiki installation from one machien to another, how do I go about that task?
In other words:
Is there an established procedure?
If so, where is it described?
Thanks in advance.
Cheers,
-- Boris Epstein
I just did that. I backed up (Linux, using tar) my MediaWiki directory. I backed up the database. Then I ftp'd the directory structure to the new server and untarred it. Then I imported the database into the database on the new server.
If you have images, execute the maintenance/importImages.php script from the command line.
It worked like a dream!
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