[Mediawiki-l] Can maintenance/update.php be run on shared hosting?

[Platonides]

Ekompute .info wrote:
> Hi, I have asked this question before and the answer seems like I can't. The
> alternative provided then was to reinstall Mediawiki. I tried doing that on
> GoDaddy but apparently, I faced the time-out. Is there any other method?
> Actually, it runs find on 1.14.0 but I thought I might as well upgrade it to
> 1.15.1. If everything fails, I will revert to 1.14.0 until such time when I
> am ready to go for VDS.


Installing over an existing db should upgrade you just as
maintenance/update.php
You can place a set_time_limit(0); (or some big value) at the top to
change the timeout.