Christiaan Briggs wrote:
I'm running MediaWiki on our intranet at work. I
recently upgraded our
server from Mac OS X 10.3 to 10.4. In the process the MySQL default
database location appears to have been moved, so MediaWiki couldn't see
its database. I've also subsequently reinstalled MediaWiki (but to a
more recent version than before the system upgrade), giving it a new
database.
[snip]
Thanks,
Christiaan
Files I found, which I assume are my database:
[snip]
You really messed it up.
The *.myd and *.frm files (and the others in the dir) are used
internally by MySQL. MediaWiki can't do squat with them.
Basically, shutdown MySQL. Either move the files to the current DB
location or change the location to match them. Start MySQL and make sure
that went ok.
Create AdminSettings.php, according to the template. Then run
maintenance/update.php from the command-line (doesn't work on HTTP!) to
upgrade the DB schema. Depending on the size of the wiki, this may take
some time.
Then try out the wiki before calling it done. Make sure that you can
login, logout, edit pages (logged in and anon), upload files, etc. Be
especially watchful for session issues.
BTW, I hope you backed up before beginning this project.
-- Jamie
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