Jesse (Pathoschild) wrote: > On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 10:39 PM, Toshi Esumi <[email protected]> wrote: >> We finally got a new Linux based server (running on VMware) to migrate >> our current v1.6 wiki for our company knowledge-base to. >> [...] >> Does anybody have suggestions for the migration procedure? Or can >> anybody point me to a wiki page(s) where I can find the info I'm looking >> for? > > > Hello Toshi, > > This is a major upgrade. Make sure to back up your files and database > before starting. You can try upgrading directly from 1.6 to 1.15, but > this has a good chance of failing. Consider upgrading in several steps > (eg, 1.6 to 1.8 to 1.10, etc). Perhaps someone more knowledgeable > about MediaWiki versions can suggest the minimum safe version steps.
Please upgrade in a single step, do not upgrade to intermediate versions. I have given this answer several times on this mailing list, and in the upgrade FAQ: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:FAQ#Upgrading -- Tim Starling _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
