Daniel Milne wrote on March 15:
I'm trying to figure out the upgrade procedure.
I'm currently running
mediawiki-1.2.0rc3 and would like to upgrade to rc4.
My setup is such that $wgScriptPath is set to /wiki, and /wiki is a sym
link to mediawiki-1.2.0rc3.
I've copied LocalSettings.php and AdminSettings.php to the rc4
directory. Trying to run the update.php from either the web browser or
command line results in:
php update.php
Can't use command-line utils with in-place install yet, sorry.
What's the correct way to do this update?
For the moment, the way to do an update with an in-place install is:
* decompress the new version in a fresh directory (or over the existing
directory, and move the old LocalSettings.php out of the way for now)
* run the setup, giving it the same info as before (same database etc)
The in-place install will make any necessary changes to the database
structure if it recognizes there's already a database there.
I realize this isn't 100% ideal... it should be refined in upcoming
point releases.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)