On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Stephen Berg (Contractor) <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm rebuilding a wiki that was previously on 1.5.6. I have a good mysql > dump of the database but trying to use that didn't work so well. What I > ended up doing was a fresh install on the server with mw 1.18 and > exported/imported all the pages. (It's not a big wiki). The problem > now is getting user accounts migrated to the new wiki. I've looked at > the mysqldump's from both versions and there's some big differences. > > I did attempt to run a manual "INSERT INTO blah blah" on the new server > using the format I could discern from the dump, and the user account I > created was indeed added. But any attempt to login failed. Tried to > "email new password" and the wiki said there is no user by that name. > > How can I cleanly migrate the user accounts from the old 1.5.6 to the > new 1.18? The few references I've seen to extensions that might do this > all seem to be out of date so I'm a little wary to attempt them. >
After doing a backup of your 1.5.x wiki, you should update the files to 1.18 and then run update.php from the command line. -Chad _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
