Jesse (Pathoschild) wrote:
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 10:39 PM, Toshi Esumi email@toshiesumi.com wrote:
We finally got a new Linux based server (running on VMware) to migrate our current v1.6 wiki for our company knowledge-base to. [...] Does anybody have suggestions for the migration procedure? Or can anybody point me to a wiki page(s) where I can find the info I'm looking for?
Hello Toshi,
This is a major upgrade. Make sure to back up your files and database before starting. You can try upgrading directly from 1.6 to 1.15, but this has a good chance of failing. Consider upgrading in several steps (eg, 1.6 to 1.8 to 1.10, etc). Perhaps someone more knowledgeable about MediaWiki versions can suggest the minimum safe version steps.
Please upgrade in a single step, do not upgrade to intermediate versions. I have given this answer several times on this mailing list, and in the upgrade FAQ:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:FAQ#Upgrading
-- Tim Starling