I recently posted my experience migrating from 1.5.3 (MySQL 3.23) to 1.17 (MySQL 5.1). If you can't find it in the archive, contact me off-list. Boris
On 2011-12-05, at 1:01 PM, Daniel Friesen wrote: > On Mon, 05 Dec 2011 09:45:40 -0800, Stephen Berg (Contractor) > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 12/05/2011 11:35 AM, OQ wrote: >>> On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Stephen Berg (Contractor) >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> I've been tasked to migrate a MediaWiki install (V 1.5.6) to a new >>>> server. I suppose I could just install the older version but I'd >>>> rather >>>> migrate if it's possible. Is the jump from 1.5.6 to the current 1.18.0 >>>> too big a jump? I was planning on dumping the database from the old >>>> server and importing to the new if that is possible. I don't have a >>>> lot >>>> of experience here but if that will then I should be able to copy in >>>> all >>>> the images from old to new and be pretty much done. This wiki doesn't >>>> have any add-ons, just a basic wiki for some of my users to collect and >>>> share information. >>> Dont try to import an old dump into a new version, upgrade to the new >>> version and then dump, or install the old version on the new server >>> and then upgrade. >>> >>> Few more details mentioned here: >>> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Moving_a_wiki >> I like the idea of installing old version on new server, importing the >> database and then upgrading. Is it necessary to upgrade from 1.5.6 to >> 1.6 to 1.7 etc etc. Or can I jump straight to 1.18? >> > > Our database migration code should be able to handle upgrading the > database from that far back, so you can just skip straight to 1.18. > The only problem with database migration might be the 1.5 to 1.6 iirc > where some collations in the database schema were changed. > It's been ages since then so it's possible that our code for that change > has rotted a bit. > > If you do have any issue with going straight to 1.18, instead of going one > version at a time you can just do one upgrade to something like 1.11 and > then jump all the way to 1.18 from there. No need to do every version > upgrade incrementally. > > -- > ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name] > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
