Mordur Ingólfsson wrote:
Thank you for your reply Mr. Starling.
Is it, in your opinion, safe to install the source tarball of 1.13 on
top of the debian package installation? What would I need to keep in
mind for such a procedure? There is a lot of different things going on
on this particular server where the MW is running so I am a bit wary of
breaking things.
Well, you wouldn't install it into the same directory. Just unpack it into
some arbitrary directory, say /usr/local/mediawiki-1.13.3. Then in your
Apache configuration, set up an alias, for example...
Alias /wiki "/usr/local/mediawiki-1.13.3"
<Location /wiki>
... any settings you want to set ...
</Location>
Then navigate to /wiki/config/index.php, and run the installer, entering
the same DB name and prefix that the existing database uses. Then, if you
have a LocalSettings.php file from the old server, copy it in, if not, use
the one the installer generated. Then you'll probably want to remove the
mediawiki package.
It would be hard to break things more than they're already broken.
-- Tim Starling