New subject: [Mediawiki-l] upgrade from 1.3.x to latest stable release

22 Sep 2005

      I have a MediaWiki installation running on an intranet, and I believe
it's a version of 1.3.x
I would like to upgrade this to the latest stable version, 1.4.10
I need some hand holding with this. If anyone here can help, I would be
grateful.
The last time my company attempted to upgrade our installation (from
1.3.x to 1.3.10) we got the following errors. Note the "755 invalid
titles" section.
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MediaWiki 1.3.10 installation

Please include all of the lines below when reporting installation

problems.
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Checking environment...

* PHP 4.3.10: ok
* PHP server API is apache; ok, using pretty URLs

(index.php/Page_Title)
...
* Have XML / Latin1-UTF-8 conversion support.
* PHP's memory_limit is 32M. If this is too low, installation may

fail!
...
* Have zlib support; enabling output compression.
* Found GD graphics library built-in, image thumbnailing will be

enabled if you enable uploads.
...
* Installation directory:

/export/home2/apache/public_html/metaweb.com/production/wiki
...
* Script URI path: /wiki
* Connected as root (automatic)
* Connected to database... 4.0.23-standard; enabling MySQL 4

enhancements
...
* Database metaweb exists
* There are already MediaWiki tables in this database. Checking if

updates are needed...
...
...ipblocks is up to date.
...already have interwiki table
...indexes seem up to 20031107 standards
...Adding linkscc table.
...linkscc is up to date, or does not exist. Good.
...have hitcounter table.
Adding rc_ip...ok
Converting links table to ID-ID...
Loading IDs from cur table...
    1000 rows of cur table read.
    2000 rows of cur table read.
    3000 rows of cur table read.
Finished loading IDs.

Dropping temporary links table if it exists... done.
Creating temporary links table... done.

Processing 10361 rows from links table...
Inserting 780 tuples into links_temp... done. Total 780 tuples

inserted.
...
...
Inserting 326 tuples into links_temp... done. Total 9606 tuples

inserted.
...
9606 valid titles and 755 invalid titles were processed.

Dropping backup links table if it exists... done.
Swapping tables 'links' to 'links_backup'; 'links_temp' to

'links'... done.
...
Conversion complete. The old table remains at links_backup;
delete at your leisure.
Adding user_real_name field to table user...ok
...have special page querycache table.
...have objectcache table.
...have categorylinks table.
Creating redirects
Gnunote...redirected
All_messages...redirected

Moving pages...
Gnunote...moved
All_messages...moved

Converting text...
Initialising "MediaWiki" namespace...
Clearing message cache...Done.

* Finished update checks.

Creating LocalSettings.php...

Success! Move the LocalSettings.php file into the parent

directory, then follow this link to your wiki.
I suspect, but am not sure, that the invalid titles errors are the
result of our renaming the "Wikipedia:" article namespace to "Metaweb:"
in our installation.
We're running a very old version, and I have to say, the latest version
is so much better in terms of display and admin features.
If anyone could help walk me through this upgrade, I would greatly
appreciate it.
--Pat