[Mediawiki-l] Upgrading PHP5.1 to PHP5.2 breaks MediaWiki's older than v.1.9.1

[Paul Coghlan]

Has anyone had experience of using Special:Import on large files?

Depending on the size of a page I am finding a limit of a couple of hundred
pages per import.

Is there any other method for large imports?

Paul

On 2/22/07 12:32 AM, "Roger Chrisman" <roger at rogerchrisman.com> wrote:

> Just a tip about how to ride out a PHP5.1 to PHP5.2 upgrade on your
> server.
> 
> The recent upgrade of PHP5.1 to PHP5.2 on my server caused trouble for
> my MediaWiki 1.8.2 (and might effect any MediaWiki version older than
> 1.9.1).
> 
> I got my MediaWiki working again like this:
> 
> * I upgraded to MediaWiki version 1.9.2 (most recent version when I did
> this; 1.9.3 has since been released)
> 
> * I also had to uncomment the following line in MediaWiki's
> LocalSettings.php to keep it running okay in this upgraded environment:
> 
>   ini_set( 'memory_limit', '20M' );
> 
> Not sure why that became necessary but it did.
> 
> My MediaWiki runs on a commercial virtual web hosting account at
> Dathorn.com. I moved it there to escape Dreamhost.com's oversold
> virtual web hosting servers. I don't like the cPanel environment I'm
> stuck in now but the server does seem to be snappy. So far so good.
> 
> http://wikigogy.org/Special:Version