[Mediawiki-l] Upgrading Mediawiki

[Ekompute .info]

Hi, I looked at the solution from the internet and found an answer at MedaWiki
Users <http://www.mwusers.com/forums/showthread.php?p=30793>. It says to
change the permission for LocalSettings to 644. Does that means that
everyone can read my LocalSettings.php?

Anyway, it works, but to my surprise, I couldn't see any of my files! It is
exactly like what happened when I tried to upgrade Dummipedia.org. So it's
back to square one again.

PM Poon

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 2:51 AM, Ekompute .info <ekompute at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, I just tried to upgrade one of my smaller websites from 1.12 to 1.14.
> Now the site is down. The error message is:
>
> *Warning*:
> require_once(/home/ekomrinf/public_html/mywiki/LocalSettings.php) [
> function.require-once<http://teknologi-maklumat.com/mywiki/function.require-once>]:
> failed to open stream: Permission denied in *
> /home/ekomrinf/public_html/mywiki/includes/WebStart.php* on line *113*
>
> *Fatal error*: require_once() [function.require<http://teknologi-maklumat.com/mywiki/function.require>]:
> Failed opening required
> '/home/ekomrinf/public_html/mywiki/LocalSettings.php'
> (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in *
> /home/ekomrinf/public_html/mywiki/includes/WebStart.php* on line *113
>
> *Doesn't look very serious, though. How do I solve it?
>
> PM Poon
> *
>
> *
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 1:28 AM, Ekompute .info <ekompute at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi Christensen, thank you very much for your reply. I did point to the new
>> database in LocalSettings.php but it didn't work for me. Tried it three
>> times.
>>
>> Extreme phobia began about a year back when Siteground could not help me
>> restore with two of their backups, even though they charge me for it, and I
>> thought that one full year of hard work had gone down the drain. At that
>> time, I thought I would not continue doing websites because if it were 10
>> years of effort, I would have jumped up through the window, LOL. Didn't
>> touch my website for quite many weeks after that, even though Siteground
>> somehow or rather manage to restore it eventually after I told them that I
>> am giving up on websites.
>>
>> Anyway, I will take a plunge and try Mike's proposal. No confidence in
>> backups these days, I know the fear is illogical. Maybe arming myself with 3
>> different copies will reduce the risk.
>>
>> PM Poon
>>
>> I am using a shared server and I do not have access to running the
>> upgrade.php.
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 8:41 PM, Christensen, Courtney <
>> ChristensenC at battelle.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Did you two run upgrade.php from the maintenance folder on your
>>> databases?  And naming your database something new as long as your
>>> LocalSettings.php points to it shouldn't cause any problems.
>>>
>>> Good luck!
>>> -Courtney
>>>
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>>
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