This actually isn't all that ancient (MediaWiki has unit tests making
sure upgrades work from at least 1.15. And really, anything after 1.5
should probably work fine). Normal upgrade procedure should work fine.
--
Brian
On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 1:59 PM, Bakkies Gatvol <bakgat8(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
I have been asked to "make production" an
ancient intra-net installation
here is the Special:Version info
Installed software
Product Version
MediaWiki<http://www.mediawiki.org/> 1.18.3
PHP<http://www.php.net/> 5.3.10 (apache2handler)
MySQL<http://www.mysql.com/> 5.1.62-log
Installed extensions
Special pages
CategoryTree<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CategoryTree>
Dynamically navigate the category
structure<http://creswiki.se.fss.aramark.com/wiki/Special:CategoryTree&g… Daniel
Kinzler
Renameuser<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Renameuser> Adds a
special
page<http://creswiki.se.fss.aramark.com/wiki/Special:RenameUser> to rename a
user (need renameuser right) Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason and Aaron Schulz User Merge and
Delete<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:User_Merge_and_Delete> (Version
1.6.1)Merges references from one user to another
user<http://creswiki.se.fss.aramark.com/wiki/Special:UserMerge> in the wiki database
- will also delete old users following merge. Requires usermerge privileges Tim Laqua
Parser hooks
CategoryTree<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CategoryTree>
Dynamically navigate the category
structure<http://creswiki.se.fss.aramark.com/wiki/Special:CategoryTree&g… Daniel
Kinzler External
Data<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:External_Data>
(Version 1.3.6)Allows for retrieving structured data from external URLs, databases and
other sources Yaron Koren, Michael Dale and David Macdonald Google
Calendar<http://www.bastianschaefer.org/PHP/MediaWikiExtensions> Display Google
Calendar Bastian Schaefer
ImageMap<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ImageMap>
Allows client-side clickable image maps using <imagemap> tag Tim Starling RSS
Reader<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RSS_Reader> (Version 0.2.5)Adds
<rss> tag Artem Kaznatcheev
Other Google Maps
Extension<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Google_Maps>
(Version 0.9.4)<gm-descs> Evan
Miller<http://www.evanmiller.org/>
include<http://mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:include> This lets you include static
content from a local or remote URL. Noah Spurrier (Patched by Matthieu Moy) LDAP
Authentication
Plugin<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LDAP_Authentication>
(Version 1.2e)LDAP authentication plugin with support for multiple LDAP authentication
methods Ryan Lane
Extension functions efCategoryTree, efRSSReader, wfGoogleCalendar, wfGoogleMaps_Install
and wf_include
Parser extension tags <categorytree>, <gallery>, <googlecalendar>,
<googlemap>, <googlemapkml>, <imagemap>, <include>,
<nowiki>, <pre> and <rss>
It is probably running under somebody's desk off an ancient PC.
the OS is =>
FreeBSD
snokx0fbsd01.fubar.com 8.2-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p4 #0: Mon Nov 14
17:25:54 MST 2011
We are a redhat shop
I would much appreciate if the seasoned experts here could suggest the best way to get
from here to anything NOW.
We want to put it on a virtual server, which I imagine is fine.
I doubt I could upgrade in one go - but how many steps does it take? And what are they.
There appears to be backups made as follows
/usr/local/bin/mysqldump -u backup yadda yadda
tar -zcf /backups/mediawiki-current.tar.gz mediawiki
I have worked with other wiki's but not MediaWiki particular.
It looks like there are rpms's for redhat - could I use that or do I have to use the
tar ball. I don;t really care - I know how to compile - I just want to best chance of
success.
Much appreciate any pointers.
BG
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