Hello all,
I am trying to upgrade from 1.4 to 1.13. Any pointer, tricks and advices are greatly appreciated.
Is it a good idea in the first place or should I go in increments of 0.2?
Thanks in advance.
Eshwar
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Koteswara Rao eshwar_bvpr@hotmail.comwrote:
Hello all,
I am trying to upgrade from 1.4 to 1.13. Any pointer, tricks and advices are greatly appreciated.
Is it a good idea in the first place or should I go in increments of 0.2?
Thanks in advance.
Eshwar
Make a backup!
The UPGRADE notes < http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/phase3/UPGRADE?view=markup%3... have some information on upgrading old versions. Ordinarily you can just upgrade directly to the latest stable release, but you could do the upgrade to 1.5 first, since that part is probably the most likely to break.
On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 12:41 AM, Benjamin Lees emufarmers@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Koteswara Rao eshwar_bvpr@hotmail.comwrote:
Hello all,
I am trying to upgrade from 1.4 to 1.13. Any pointer, tricks and advices are greatly appreciated.
Is it a good idea in the first place or should I go in increments of 0.2?
Thanks in advance.
Eshwar
Make a backup!
The UPGRADE notes < http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/phase3/UPGRADE?view=markup%3... have some information on upgrading old versions. Ordinarily you can just upgrade directly to the latest stable release, but you could do the upgrade to 1.5 first, since that part is probably the most likely to break. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
I did a test run of 1.3something and 1.4 MW databases up to 1.8 and 1.9 about 18 months ago, and they didn't make a one-step upgrade cleanly at all. I doubt it's cleaner going further to 1.13
I was advised at the time to try going to 1.5 and then from there try the one-step. That eventually worked.
#$@$% customized intranets with #@$@$ local extensions that aren't upgradeable.
George Herbert schrieb:
On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 12:41 AM, Benjamin Lees emufarmers@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Koteswara Rao eshwar_bvpr@hotmail.comwrote:
Hello all,
I am trying to upgrade from 1.4 to 1.13. Any pointer, tricks and advices are greatly appreciated.
Is it a good idea in the first place or should I go in increments of 0.2?
Thanks in advance.
Eshwar
Make a backup!
The UPGRADE notes < http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/phase3/UPGRADE?view=markup%3... have some information on upgrading old versions. Ordinarily you can just upgrade directly to the latest stable release, but you could do the upgrade to 1.5 first, since that part is probably the most likely to break. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
I did a test run of 1.3something and 1.4 MW databases up to 1.8 and 1.9 about 18 months ago, and they didn't make a one-step upgrade cleanly at all. I doubt it's cleaner going further to 1.13
I was advised at the time to try going to 1.5 and then from there try the one-step. That eventually worked.
#$@$% customized intranets with #@$@$ local extensions that aren't upgradeable.
I made an upgrade from 1.5beta to 1.13 which did not work very well. I had two dumps of the mysql database (with mysqldump and phpmyadmin). I was not able to reimport both correctly. What saved me was an xmldump.
On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 11:46, Ulrich Althaus ulrich.althaus@triagnosys.com wrote:
I made an upgrade from 1.5beta to 1.13 which did not work very well. I had two dumps of the mysql database (with mysqldump and phpmyadmin). I was not able to reimport both correctly. What saved me was an xmldump.
Try going from 1.5 to 1.6, then from 1.6 to 1.7, from 1.7 to 1.8 and so on. It'll take longer, but it should work better.
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Schneelocke wrote:
On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 11:46, Ulrich Althaus ulrich.althaus@triagnosys.com wrote:
I made an upgrade from 1.5beta to 1.13 which did not work very well. I had two dumps of the mysql database (with mysqldump and phpmyadmin). I was not able to reimport both correctly. What saved me was an xmldump.
Try going from 1.5 to 1.6, then from 1.6 to 1.7, from 1.7 to 1.8 and so on. It'll take longer, but it should work better.
It should *always* work to make a direct upgrade from the old version to the new version. If it does not, that is a bug and we need to *find out why* and *fix it*.
Making multiple upgrades with intermediate versions is *more* likely to cause trouble, because the old intermediate versions might themselves be buggy, or fail to properly work with your new PHP or MySQL version.
1) Back everything up first.
2) No, really. Back everything up first. :)
3) Run the updaters *to the current version* and *save ALL output* from the updater script. Just running it a second time will *not* give you the same information.
4) If you have problems, provide *all* of that information when seeking help.
- -- brion
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