[Mediawiki-l] upgrade from 1.3.x to latest stable release

[Patrick Tufts]

I have a MediaWiki installation running on an intranet, and I believe
it's a version of 1.3.x

I would like to upgrade this to the latest stable version, 1.4.10

I need some hand holding with this. If anyone here can help, I would be
grateful.

The last time my company attempted to upgrade our installation (from
1.3.x to 1.3.10) we got the following errors. Note the "755 invalid
titles" section.

>     MediaWiki 1.3.10 installation
>
>     Please include all of the lines below when reporting installation
problems.
>     Checking environment...
>
>     * PHP 4.3.10: ok
>     * PHP server API is apache; ok, using pretty URLs
(index.php/Page_Title)
>     * Have XML / Latin1-UTF-8 conversion support.
>     * PHP's memory_limit is 32M. If this is too low, installation may
fail!
>     * Have zlib support; enabling output compression.
>     * Found GD graphics library built-in, image thumbnailing will be
enabled if you enable uploads.
>     * Installation directory:
/export/home2/apache/public_html/metaweb.com/production/wiki
>     * Script URI path: /wiki
>     * Connected as root (automatic)
>     * Connected to database... 4.0.23-standard; enabling MySQL 4
enhancements
>     * Database metaweb exists
>     * There are already MediaWiki tables in this database. Checking if
updates are needed...
>
>     ...ipblocks is up to date.
>     ...already have interwiki table
>     ...indexes seem up to 20031107 standards
>     ...Adding linkscc table.
>     ...linkscc is up to date, or does not exist. Good.
>     ...have hitcounter table.
>     Adding rc_ip...ok
>     Converting links table to ID-ID...
>     Loading IDs from cur table...
>         1000 rows of cur table read.
>         2000 rows of cur table read.
>         3000 rows of cur table read.
>     Finished loading IDs.
>
>     Dropping temporary links table if it exists... done.
>     Creating temporary links table... done.
>
>     Processing 10361 rows from links table...
>     Inserting 780 tuples into links_temp... done. Total 780 tuples
inserted.
...
>     Inserting 326 tuples into links_temp... done. Total 9606 tuples
inserted.
>     9606 valid titles and 755 invalid titles were processed.
>
>     Dropping backup links table if it exists... done.
>     Swapping tables 'links' to 'links_backup'; 'links_temp' to
'links'... done.
>
>     Conversion complete. The old table remains at links_backup;
>     delete at your leisure.
>     Adding user_real_name field to table user...ok
>     ...have special page querycache table.
>     ...have objectcache table.
>     ...have categorylinks table.
>     Creating redirects
>     Gnunote...redirected
>     All_messages...redirected
>
>     Moving pages...
>     Gnunote...moved
>     All_messages...moved
>
>     Converting text...
>     Initialising "MediaWiki" namespace...
>     Clearing message cache...Done.
>
>     * Finished update checks.
>
>     Creating LocalSettings.php...
>
>     Success! Move the LocalSettings.php file into the parent
directory, then follow this link to your wiki.

I suspect, but am not sure, that the invalid titles errors are the
result of our renaming the "Wikipedia:" article namespace to "Metaweb:"
in our installation.

We're running a very old version, and I have to say, the latest version
is so much better in terms of display and admin features.

If anyone could help walk me through this upgrade, I would greatly
appreciate it.

--Pat