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Hi,
I'm running a pretty old version, 1.3.9, and would like to upgrade to the most current version, 1.6.6 as of now.
I'm not yet sure, but as it seems I've to do the upgrade in steps:
* upgraed to 1.4 * upgrade to 1.5 * finally upgrade to 1.6.6
Is this true or can I immidiately upgrade to 1.6.6?
For us only the articles/categories are really important. Users, etc. are not relevant for us. We don't use any advanced stuff like templates or similiar things and there are just some few uploads.
Is there another way to export all the MediaWiki content to a neutral format which can be important into the latest version?
thanks, - - Markus
Markus Fischer escribió:
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Hi,
I'm running a pretty old version, 1.3.9, and would like to upgrade to the most current version, 1.6.6 as of now.
I'm not yet sure, but as it seems I've to do the upgrade in steps:
- upgraed to 1.4
- upgrade to 1.5
- finally upgrade to 1.6.6
Is this true or can I immidiately upgrade to 1.6.6?
For us only the articles/categories are really important. Users, etc. are not relevant for us. We don't use any advanced stuff like templates or similiar things and there are just some few uploads.
Is there another way to export all the MediaWiki content to a neutral format which can be important into the latest version?
thanks,
- Markus
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Yes, you need to make upgrades step by step for each lastest version.
I dont know how many articles you have so, make a backup of your database and try to upgrade.
Read this for more information, http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Upgrading_MediaWiki
Good luck.
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Thanks, not what I wanted to hear but well ...
Is there no generic export/import facility?
erchache2000 wrote:
I dont know how many articles you have so, make a backup of your database and try to upgrade.
- - Markus
I upgraded from 1.3.9 to 1.6.6 without intermediate upgrades. So far, I've not noticed any problems.
I upgraded a copy ("WikiNew"), in order to safely test the process and not disturb the live wiki, so I had to copy the Images directory over from the live wiki. I also had to make a copy of the MySQL database and link to the copy. I had mods to the old Monobook skin, so I had to merge them into the new css code which is in a different directory now. And then I had to manually find and copy mods to the 1.3.9 code...
When I was comfortable, I renamed the root directories, and adjusted the LocalSettings.php file accordingly. This leaves me using a different database, with a different name. There were no edits on the old wiki during testing, otherwise I would have had to either upgrade the live wiki, or copy the edits across.
I don't think I had to run any maintenance scripts, I think all the upgrading of the database was performed in the main install script which is run the first time you access the wiki from a browser without the configurations established.
James
On 07/06/06, =James Birkholz= jbirchwood@comcast.net wrote:
I don't think I had to run any maintenance scripts, I think all the upgrading of the database was performed in the main install script which is run the first time you access the wiki from a browser without the configurations established.
maintenance/update.php is a command-line accessible version of the upgraders, for working on a live database without using the installer again.
Rob Church
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Hi,
just reporting how I solved this, unfortunately not in an elegant way. I separately installed 1.6.* and manully hand-copied all pages, only using the history (not that in important in this case).
- From all what I've read on web, mailing list and update documentation I didn't had the feeling that an upgrade from such an old version was a good idea. Since the >100 pages only took me about 90 minutes to transfer it was ok for me.
- - Markus
Markus Fischer wrote:
Hi,
I'm running a pretty old version, 1.3.9, and would like to upgrade to the most current version, 1.6.6 as of now.
I'm not yet sure, but as it seems I've to do the upgrade in steps:
- upgraed to 1.4
- upgrade to 1.5
- finally upgrade to 1.6.6
Is this true or can I immidiately upgrade to 1.6.6?
For us only the articles/categories are really important. Users, etc. are not relevant for us. We don't use any advanced stuff like templates or similiar things and there are just some few uploads.
Is there another way to export all the MediaWiki content to a neutral format which can be important into the latest version?
thanks,
- Markus
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