A Chan wrote:

I'm trying to both upgrade our MediaWiki 1.1.0 to the latest stable release, and migrate from a Windows box to a Linux box.

My plan was to install 1.1.0 on the new machine, import the data, then do the upgrade there.

My recommendation would be to import just the database, then install MediaWiki 1.4.0 pointing it at the existing database to run the updates.

From such an old version you may or may not need to fiddle with GRANT permissions in the database.

The 1.1.0 install.php is not working on the new machine, but I noticed it is running PHP5.

Does anyone know if MediaWiki 1.1.0 is compatible with PHP5?

We didn't target PHP 5 compatibility until 1.3 (which was then only partial). I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't work.

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