[Mediawiki-l] mediawiki upgrade

[Cong Chinh Nguyen]

You only need to dump the db for backup purpose only, don't import it
back after upgrade.
For ugrading, what you need it:
- Copy the new files over your installation
- Run #php maintenance/upgrade.php if necessary
Chinh


On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 11:29:50 +0100, François Van Der Biest
<francois.vanderbiest at loa.espci.fr> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I'd like to upgrade from 1.3.1 to 1.3.9 on our internal network.
> First I backup the database :
> mysqldump -u root -p wikidb > wiki.db
> 
> Then, I follow the normal setup of a fresh install of mediawiki 1.3.9
> 
> When I want to restore my old data :
> cat wiki.db | mysql -u root -p wikidb
> this tells me : "ERROR 1050 at line 11: Table 'archive' already exists"
> 
> Indeed, the definition of the table 'archive' seems to be at line 11 of
> file wiki.db, and I guess that the fresh install of mediawiki already
> created such a table.
> 
> So my question would be : how do i get my old data back into my new
> install of mediawiki ?
> 
> Thank's for any help.
> 
> I've been looking through the pages :
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker
> http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Installation_du_logiciel
> .... but i could not get any information on this problem.
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