Benjamin and Tobias: thanks for your replies.

This is the first time that I do an update of my wiki and therefore I am still not clear about what really goes on when I run index.php in mw-config. To my mind there are two problems in my case, which may or may not be related:

1. index.php is displayed without styles 2. the routine doesn't see the existing installation

1. Styles: Does it really matter, what skins are in defined in LocalSettings.php? As far as I understand it, LocalSettings.php is not executed during the upgrade process. Only its existence matters, as it implies that I want to upgrade my existing wiki. If it were read, why would I have to supply information about the database, when this information is stored in LocalSettings.php and the upgrader could read it itself. I thought that the styles needed to display index.php properly were stored in mw-config and in its subdirectory, images.

2. locating files Again, I am not clear about what the routine does. To my mind, the upgrader should look into the parent-directory of mw-config, ie. the root directory, and should look for LocalSettings.php. The file is there, I can see it, but the routine can't. Why?

And finally, are the two problems related?

Thanks, Andreas

Am 07.04.2016 um 09:20 schrieb Tobias Oetterer:

Also, skin handling has changed since 1.24.

See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Skin_configuration And https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Skin_autodiscovery

Regards, Tobias

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Maybe your URL configuration is tripping it up.

What does the error log say? https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:How_to_debug

On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 1:36 PM, A. Johannsen, vij Koordination andreas.johannsen@vij.de wrote:

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Dear all,

I have a problem with updating mediawiki 1.18.1 to the current version 1.26.2. Since I have no access to the command line, I am using the web browser instead.

The problem is that index.php in mw-config is read, but it is displayed without styles. I am still able to select a language. But when I click "continue", the next page is white. The procedure doesn't find an existing installation, even though a Localsettings.php exists in the root directory.

Please help.

Many thanks,

Andreas

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