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From: Polaris <xxx(a)northerndragons.ca>
Date: 2011/11/14
Subject: Trying to report a problem, not sure the right place
To: wikitech-l-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subjects: Missing pages after upgrade from 1.5 to 1.17
Hi there,
I have a 1.5 site, that I had to evacuate from my current host to a new
hosting provider. I stood up the old version here:
http://in4k.northerndragons.ca/.
It's running on PHP: 5.2.17 (cgi-fcgi), and MySQL 5.1.39.
I have tried to upgrade this site, using the following process.
1) Creating a replica of the site, by creating a new database / exporting
the old one via PHPmyAdmin, and importing
2) Copying all the data over.
3) Modifying localsettings.php to have the right paths.
4) Validating my site is working as expected.
This works.
Then I drop the files for MediaWiki 1.17, and run the maintenance script
upgrade.php (on the command line), which completes without errors.
The problem is that, I'm missing pages after the upgrade. You can see it
from my old site (just migrated) vs the 1.17 site:
Most of the user pages are gone, and users for that matter too.
Examples:
Working old version:
http://in4k.northerndragons.ca/index.php?title=User:alrj
Missing new version:
http://beta.in4k.northerndragons.ca/index.php?title=User:Alrj
Says User account "Alrj" is not registered.
Another:
http://in4k.northerndragons.ca/index.php?title=User:auld
Missing version:
http://beta.in4k.northerndragons.ca/index.php?title=User:Auld
User account "Auld" is not registered.
What's really odd, is that this isn't true with all users. For example:
http://in4k.northerndragons.ca/index.php?title=User:Blueberry
and
http://beta.in4k.northerndragons.ca/index.php?title=User:Blueberry
Work in both.
I'd greatly appreciate some help here, as I'm totally stumped.
Thanks!
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Kind regards,
Huib Laurens
WickedWay.nl
Webhosting the wicked way.