On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 9:59 AM, Bakkies Gatvol <bakgat8(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
I have been asked to "make production" an
ancient intra-net installation
Should be able to do the upgrade in one go. The installer will take your
database through successive upgrades from 1.18 to current.
I'd put it on RHEL or CentOS if you're a redhat shop.
Don't use the RPM (missing extensions), use the tarball. There's nothing to
compile. Just untar the distribution and follow the upgrade guide at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading
Make sure you have a backup of the database (like you mentioned) and also
the images directory.
The biggest challenge I see is that you're using LDAP authentication, and
the whole Session Management / Authentication bit changed in REL1_27
Or, call me and I'll set you up on a maintained and supported distribution
of MediaWiki
http://qualitybox.us/
~ Greg
Greg Rundlett
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