On Mar 23, 2004, at 12:54, Dan Carlson wrote:
I suppose it's my own fault for trusting what was explicitly labeled as an "experimental" web interface installer, but I'm going to pass this information on so that other people are aware as well.
I've had an existing wiki that I wanted to upgrade to 1.2.0rc4, and I tried using the web interface. I didn't realize that the installer would WIPE MY ENTIRE DATABASE and start over with a blank slate! I think you guys should either (a) put a much more obvious warning against using the installer for existing wikis (I haven't found one yet), or else (b) tell the installer to do nothing as a safeguard if it detects an existing database using the name of the database it was told to set up.
Well, it's sure as hell not *supposed* to do that! If it detects an existing set of MediaWiki tables in the database, it's supposed to update them to current spec, not overwrite them.
Can you detail the exact steps necessary to reproduce this? Obviously I'd like to fix it... PHP version MySQL version Did you give the same database, db username, and db password as previously? Do you have root access on the database? Does the database have a blank local root password? etc
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