[Mediawiki-l] Upgrade

[Hugh Prior]

I don't know how likely you are to find someone who is all three of the 
following:
a) hosting on IX WebHosting
b) experienced in upgrading MediaWiki
c) paying attention to your forum post

Not very I suppose.

Here's my suggestion:
1) Try and understand what upgrade.php actually does (I've no idea - I've 
never looked at it).
2) Load both 1.5.3 and the latest version (say 1.7.1) on a local machine, 
and create seperate databases for both, with a few sample pages/edits in 
each
3) Compare the 1.5.3 db with the 1.7.1 db, and make the changes manually
4) Try and make "manually" (with phpmyadmin or SQLyog) the required changes 
to the 1.5.3 db
5) Point the 1.7.1 code at the newly changed 1.5.3 db and test

The changes between 1.5.3 and 1.7.1 may be so huge as to make this 
completely impractical, but somehow the answer to what you need to change 
will be found in "upgrade.php".  Good luck!


Hugh
http://www.chainki.org

"Mauro do Carmo" <mauro at carmo.info> wrote in 
message news:55ac1u$7a8kpp at smtp01.lnh.mail.rcn.net...
> Hi,
>
> I have a Linux account with IX WebHosting. And I would like to upgrade my
> Mediawiki from 1.5.3 to the newest version.
>
> The problem is that I need a step by step procedure. Specially considering 
> that
> IX WebHosting doesn't allow Security Shell Mode, so I can not use 
> upgrade.php,
> etc.
>
> Any one familiar with IX WebHosting and willing to help me?
>
> Thanks a lot,
> mauro.