On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 14:38 +1000, Tim Starling wrote: > Toshi Esumi wrote: > > > > Thanks Benjamin for the link. Based on what I understood from this > > manual page, it is assumed the upgrade procedure happens on the server > > that the existing Mediawiki+database reside. Is this implying there is > > no way to set up a new version of Mediawiki on a new server machine and, > > somehow, convert the existing, or backed-up, database (including > > imagefiles) to fits into the new environment off-line and inject it into > > the new machine/environment? > > > > In other words, in our case, we need to install V1.6 and all database > > (or duplicate the current environment) into the new server first, then > > from there, we can upgrade Mediawiki based on the procedure written in > > the manual page. Am I right, or misunderstanding something? > > You don't need to install the source code from MediaWiki 1.6 before > you upgrade. You only need to move the database across to the new > machine. The data needs to be loaded into a MySQL instance, you can't > upgrade an SQL dump. > > Unpack the MediaWiki 1.15 tarball on the new machine, then copy the > images and LocalSettings.php from the old server across to the new > 1.15 directory tree. Then run update.php or the web installer to > upgrade the database. > > -- Tim Starling > We need to unstaill 1.15 then. Coping the data first, and re-installing the 1.15 to let it grab all tree structure including the all images under "images" folder based on what's in the LocalSettings.php.
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