[Mediawiki-l] upgrade advice and help

[Dale (Inquisitor Betrayer)]

my concern on running the install again, I am not sure I remember all the
details on the install ...
I did review the Local settings file to get the info I needed to open the
databases. Perhaps that is what I should do,
print out the local settings file, have in hand and follow those steps.

Thanks, I will update the list here when I do this, I have some backups to
do. ;-)

I did run error check and optimize the tables while I was in the databases.
;-)

dale

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christensen, Courtney" <ChristensenC at BATTELLE.ORG>

> Hi Dale,
>
> Have you seen this upgrade walkthrough?
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading_to_1.14
> You will probably need to do
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading_to_1.14#Alternative_2:_Re-run_the_installer
>
> You definitely want to make a backup of your database and uploads (I might
even suggest of your whole code base so you can revert if necessary).  But
other than that it should work.  I've heard the MediaWiki devs mention that
they would like to know about any snags you run into because they want to
make it a painless as is reasonable for people to upgrade.
>
> Good luck,
> -Courtney

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mediawiki-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org
[mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Dale
(Inquisitor Betrayer)
> It might help this wiki if I upgrade it. I am having a lot of spam
problems.
> I did read the notes on upgrade and I am not all that clear on it. Here is
> the installed and running wiki
> http://aim.alienearmusic.com/aimw/index.php/Main_Page . It has been up for
a
> few years and I think I upgraded once before.
> Right now it's info is :
> MediaWiki: 1.5beta3
> PHP: 5.2.5 (apache)
> MySQL: 5.0.67-community
>
> My questions are :
> 1. What steps do I need to do to upgrade it to the current version?
> 2. I understand I need to backup the files and database, that I will do
via
> my hosting panels for it. Other than that, what do I need to do to prep it

> for upgrade?
>
> note I do not have shell access to the server, so I need to upgrade via
web
> interface
>
> dale