Still no luck upgrading to 1.4. I guess something is missing in the instructions:
Brion Vibber wrote:
And then please no more guesses, just a cookbook recipe how to upgrade 1.3.5 to 1.4.0
First, back up all data.
Untar the archive. Run 'php maintenance/update.php' (with a real command-line PHP; if the command is named differently use the actual name.) Remember that for command-line maintenance scripts an AdminSettings.php is necessary; see AdminSettings.sample.
I untarred the archive in /usr/local and made a symlink from my documentroot
Then I copied the old Localsetting.php and modified contents to correct paths
The I ran update with the following result:
--------- [root@kropix mediawiki-1.4.0]# php maintenance/update.php PHP Warning: chdir(): No such file or directory (errno 2) in /usr/local/mediawiki-1.4.0/maintenance/commandLine.inc on line 28 Content-type: text/html X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.10
A copy of your installation's LocalSettings.php must exist in the source directory. -----------
So what does this script do, and how can I check if it did anything: ie does it modify the database??
Daniel