[Mediawiki-l] migrating a MediaWiki installation

[Sullivan, James (NIH/CIT) [C]]

This might help:
 http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Moving_a_wiki

-Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: Boris Epstein [mailto:borepstein at gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 3:23 PM
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Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] migrating a MediaWiki installation

Thanks Raquel!

I'll try that.

What if the versions of MediaWiki are different?

On Oct 31, 2007 3:06 PM, Raquel <raquel at thericehouse.net> wrote:

> On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:57:05 -0400
> "Boris Epstein" <borepstein at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello everyone!
> >
> > If I need to migrate a MediaWiki installation from one machien to 
> > another, how do I go about that task?
> >
> > In other words:
> >
> > 1) Is there an established procedure?
> >
> > 2) If so, where is it described?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > --
> > Boris Epstein
>
> I just did that.  I backed up (Linux, using tar) my MediaWiki 
> directory.  I backed up the database.  Then I ftp'd the directory 
> structure to the new server and untarred it.  Then I imported the 
> database into the database on the new server.
>
> If you have images, execute the maintenance/importImages.php script 
> from the command line.
>
> It worked like a dream!
>
> --
> Raquel
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