Hello Folks,
I got a private Mediawiki 1.4 from 2005 which still runs on a Debian 5 machine.
I'm about to virtualize this because of various reasons but the first problem I ran
into just after trying to move it to a clean Wheezy install is that it's incompatible
with:
ii php5 5.4.4-14+deb7u14 all
server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language (metapackage)
Of course the solution what I found online was to upgrade your mediawiki because it have
so many advantages blahblah. Really? New features I do not need, and although I went
through with the upgrade it become 20xtimes slower + I lost the custom skin I had. This
all seems disadvantages to me.
So correct me if I'm wrong but by just doing some research this version with (1-2
extensions like poem) has no know serious security vulnerability (RFI).
What I don't want to do is to install another outdated debian just because of this, I
rather downgrade the php version to (5.2). Can anyone come up with any advantage of
upgrading Mediawiki from 1.4 to 1.23?
Question2: Storage Engine
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Since this is a small (~3000 pages) private wiki which doesn't get a lot of articles
added every day, mostly just used for searching and reading articles which storage engine
is the faster MyISAM or Innodb? I do not care about reliability, only speed since the db
is backed up every day and as I said it's rarely gets new content.
Thanks!