It should hopefully really be a one-step upgrade, if the documentation is right, but you never know with software seemingly released in 2004/2005...
sent from phone On Tue, Sep 13, 2022, 07:53 Riccardo Mottola <riccardo.mott...@libero.it> wrote: > Hi Ivan > > Ivan Vučica wrote: > > We have a problem. All the PHP software, including the old MediaWiki, > > is so old that it's still using numerous deprecated functions such as > > the old mysql_*() functions that have been removed from PHP in 2015. > > > > I'll proceed with importing the converted data into MariaDB, but > > existing software won't function unless we get a dead pre-7.0 version > > of PHP running (for things like Software Index), or upgrade.third > > party software (such as MediaWiki). > > If the new MediaWiki opens/converts the old tables and works, that's > fine, we can live without SoftwareIndex and then upgrade it. > But if we loose the wiki, we need probably to think a two-step upgrade. > Make an older (how old?) virtual machine, get things working and then > upgrade MediaWiki. > Keep us updated. > > Riccardo > >
