Mordur Ingólfsson wrote: Is the new server at a mediawiki version greater or equal to the old one? The first hash is on a newer format, and is always salted. The second one may be salted or not depending on $wgPasswordSalt

Mordur Ingólfsson wrote: The :B: style of password was introduced in MediaWiki 1.13. You should change your copy of MediaWiki to 1.13, rather than attempt to downgrade the database to 1.12. The Debian packages of MediaWiki are pretty much useless. They don't even keep up with our security releases, it took them a month to backport 1.13.3/1.12.2. And it's not particularly easy to use, it doesn't install or upgrade the database for you. Just install it from the source tarball available on mediawiki.org, it's virtually the same procedure. I have plans to improve the Debian package. If/when I think it's up to an appropriate standard, I'll advertise it on our download page. -- Tim Starling

Mordur Ingólfsson wrote: Well, you wouldn't install it into the same directory. Just unpack it into some arbitrary directory, say /usr/local/mediawiki-1.13.3. Then in your Apache configuration, set up an alias, for example... Alias /wiki "/usr/local/mediawiki-1.13.3" <Location /wiki> ... any settings you want to set ... </Location> Then navigate to /wiki/config/index.php, and run the installer, entering the same DB name and prefix that the existing database uses. Then, if you have a LocalSettings.php file from the old server, copy it in, if not, use the one the installer generated. Then you'll probably want to remove the mediawiki package. It would be hard to break things more than they're already broken. -- Tim Starling

Platonides wrote: It doesn't. It doesn't even know what the database name is, so it would have a hard time dropping it. -- Tim Starling