Toshi Esumi wrote:
Thanks Benjamin for the link. Based on what I understood from this
manual page, it is assumed the upgrade procedure happens on the server
that the existing Mediawiki+database reside. Is this implying there is
no way to set up a new version of Mediawiki on a new server machine and,
somehow, convert the existing, or backed-up, database (including
imagefiles) to fits into the new environment off-line and inject it into
the new machine/environment?
In other words, in our case, we need to install V1.6 and all database
(or duplicate the current environment) into the new server first, then
from there, we can upgrade Mediawiki based on the procedure written in
the manual page. Am I right, or misunderstanding something?
You don't need to install the source code from MediaWiki 1.6 before
you upgrade. You only need to move the database across to the new
machine. The data needs to be loaded into a MySQL instance, you can't
upgrade an SQL dump.
Unpack the MediaWiki 1.15 tarball on the new machine, then copy the
images and LocalSettings.php from the old server across to the new
1.15 directory tree. Then run update.php or the web installer to
upgrade the database.
-- Tim Starling
We need to unstaill 1.15 then. Coping the data first, and re-installing
the 1.15 to let it grab all tree structure including the all images
under "images" folder based on what's in the LocalSettings.php.
Toshi