Tobias Bengtsson wrote:

When I run maintenance/upgrade1_5.php to convert iso8859-1 to UTF-8 as told in UPGRADE I get these errors.

Fatal error: Cannot instantiate non-existent class: specialpage in /home/www/sites/tobbe.nu/mediawiki-1.5.5/includes/SpecialPage.php on line 72 Fatal error: Cannot instantiate non-existent class: unlistedspecialpage in /home/www/sites/tobbe.nu/mediawiki-1.5.5/includes/SpecialPage.php on line 396

linenumbers could be bogus as I changed the file to get it to work. The issue is that you need to put the classes at the top of the file SpecialPage.php. I did that and the upgrade works.

I just tested on an upgrade from a fresh install of 1.4.13 to 1.5.5, running upgrade1_5.php, with PHP 4.4.1, no custom configuration to MediaWiki.

There was no problem at all; the program ran through to the end.

another issue is in UPGRADE, you need to tell folks to change $IP and not just to copy LocalSettings.php, otherwise no upgrade works..

If they change the directory, obviously they need to change the path reference. If they don't, they don't.

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