Hello, Excuse me if my question sounds like a newbie, but I still am; I inherited the Wiki Server some months ago. I am preparing to upgrade MediaWiki 1.11.0 to 1.15.2, and we currently have 30 wiki’s. My understanding is, I can upgrade each wiki individually. Having said that, can I perform the install process of the new version, replace the old wiki’s with the new install individually? Hence not having any databases being affected except for the wiki I upgrade.

You update by replacing the old files with the new ones, then running

So to update you should just surround it with a "foreach wiki..."

Good prectises advise making a db backup before updating.

Tolliver wrote: Install process? You may be taking a wrong approach. You update by replacing the old files with the new ones, then running the script at maintenance/update.php Only the database of that wiki is affected. So to update you should just surround it with a "foreach wiki..." Good prectises advise making a db backup before updating. If the wikis are sharing the files, it may be a bit harder, since you would need to break the links for updating individually (or update all dbs one after other at the same time). _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Tolliver wrote: Install process? You may be taking a wrong approach. You update by replacing the old files with the new ones, then running the script at maintenance/update.php Only the database of that wiki is affected. So to update you should just surround it with a "foreach wiki..." Good prectises advise making a db backup before updating. If the wikis are sharing the files, it may be a bit harder, since you would need to break the links for updating individually (or update all dbs one after other at the same time). _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Try running php ./update.php ...? /Sam sam.sexton(a)thomsonreuters.com thomsonreuters.com -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Tolliver Sent: 01 April 2010 15:29 To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Upgrade to 1.15.2 question Hello, Thanks to everyone for all of your assistance, but I hope this is my last question: Does anyone know what could be causing the following errors when I run ./update.php: ./update.php: line 1: ?php: No such file or directory ./update.php: line 2: require_once: command not found ./update.php: line 3: /appl: is a directory ./update.php: line 4: addwiki.php: command not found ./update.php: line 5: addwiki.php: command not found ./update.php: line 6: addwiki.php: command not found ./update.php: line 7: addwiki.php: command not found ./update.php: line 8: addwiki.php: command not found ./update.php: line 9: addwiki.php: command not found ./update.php: line 10: addwiki.php: command not found ./update.php: line 11: archives/: is a directory ./update.php: line 13: /appl: is a directory ./update.php: line 14: =: command not found ./update.php: line 15: syntax error near unexpected token `(' ./update.php: line 15: `$options = array( 'quick', 'nopurge' );' Thanks, Graham Platonides wrote: said the _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l This email was sent to you by Thomson Reuters, the global news and information company. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Thomson Reuters. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

This part of the update.php log is just a notice, and can be ignored. PHP_AUTH_USER isn't defined because no one is authenticating. You don't need authentication from the commandline though. Comment out the FCKeditor extension from LocalSettings.php, and then try again. Re-add it when you are done. V/r, Ryan Lane ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Hello, Thanks very much, that worked! Unfortunately, when I try to access the wiki I get a permissions error; that I will determine where the permissions need to be granted again, since the upgrade. Forbidden You don't have permission to access / on this server. When I try "apachectl graceful" , I get this error: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- apachectl: Configuration syntax error, will not run "graceful": httpd: Syntax error on line 209 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf: Syntax error on line 180 of /etc/httpd/conf.d/wiki-ssl.conf: Could not open configuration file /appl/web/devwiki/etc/devwiki.conf: No such file or directory Lines in question: line 209 in httpd.conf is: Include conf.d/*.conf Line 180 of wiki-ssl.conf is: SSLOptions +StdEnvVars /appl/web/devwiki/etc/devwiki.conf (doesn't exist) Thanks, Graham Huib Laurens wrote: _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l