Andreas Tille wrote: <snip hacks>
$ php update.php MediaWiki 1.8.2 Updater A connection to the database could not be established. Check the values of $wgDBadminuser and $wgDBadminpassword.which smells like the very same problem with the missing password and I tried something like "Hack 1" again and patched the root passwd directly into the code. This at least helped a little bit:
Hello Andreas,
MediaWiki use two separate accounts. One is for the application itself and is set through $wgDBuser / $wgDBpassword in LocalSettings.php. It probably just need the select,update,insert,replace,delete rights.
To actually change the database (which you do by running the upgrade script), MediaWiki use other credentials set by $wgDBadminuser and $wgDBadminpassword. This is done with AdminSettings.php a sample is provided as AdminSettings.sample. This user should have additional rights such as ALTER (at least).
<snip install script output>
Initialising "MediaWiki" namespace for language code de... DB connection error: Unknown error (localhost)
Well, now I decided to stop this dirty patching and ask for professional help here on this list. Can anybody enlighten me what might went wrong and how I can move my wikidb to the new server flawlessly?
Kind regards and thanks for any help
I am not sure what could cause that unknown error. Maybe you can enable some logs in your mysql server and see what is failing (probably a wrong user / password or a database name problem).
cheers,