[Mediawiki-l] Wiki migration

[Boris Steipe]

I recently posted my experience migrating from 1.5.3 (MySQL 3.23) to 1.17 (MySQL 5.1). If you can't find it in the archive, contact me off-list.
Boris


On 2011-12-05, at 1:01 PM, Daniel Friesen wrote:

> On Mon, 05 Dec 2011 09:45:40 -0800, Stephen Berg (Contractor)  
> <stephen.berg.ctr at nrlssc.navy.mil> wrote:
> 
>> On 12/05/2011 11:35 AM, OQ wrote:
>>> On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Stephen Berg (Contractor)
>>> <stephen.berg.ctr at nrlssc.navy.mil>  wrote:
>>>> I've been tasked to migrate a MediaWiki install (V 1.5.6) to a new
>>>> server.  I suppose I could just install the older version but I'd  
>>>> rather
>>>> migrate if it's possible.  Is the jump from 1.5.6 to the current 1.18.0
>>>> too big a jump?  I was planning on dumping the database from the old
>>>> server and importing to the new if that is possible.  I don't have a  
>>>> lot
>>>> of experience here but if that will then I should be able to copy in  
>>>> all
>>>> the images from old to new and be pretty much done.  This wiki doesn't
>>>> have any add-ons, just a basic wiki for some of my users to collect and
>>>> share information.
>>> Dont try to import an old dump into a new version, upgrade to the new
>>> version and then dump, or install the old version on the new server
>>> and then upgrade.
>>> 
>>> Few more details mentioned here:
>>> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Moving_a_wiki
>> I like the idea of installing old version on new server, importing the
>> database and then upgrading.  Is it necessary to upgrade from 1.5.6 to
>> 1.6 to 1.7 etc etc.  Or can I jump straight to 1.18?
>> 
> 
> Our database migration code should be able to handle upgrading the  
> database from that far back, so you can just skip straight to 1.18.
> The only problem with database migration might be the 1.5 to 1.6 iirc  
> where some collations in the database schema were changed.
> It's been ages since then so it's possible that our code for that change  
> has rotted a bit.
> 
> If you do have any issue with going straight to 1.18, instead of going one  
> version at a time you can just do one upgrade to something like 1.11 and  
> then jump all the way to 1.18 from there. No need to do every version  
> upgrade incrementally.
> 
> -- 
> ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name]
> 
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