On 12/12/2011 12:02 PM, Chad wrote:
> 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 all seem to be out of date so I'm a little wary to attempt them.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.
>
>
Tried that, it broke the wiki.  Some pages wouldn't come up at all, just 
a blank web browser window.  That's why I exported all the pages from 
the old wiki/server to the new wiki/server.  My content is fine but the 
user accounts need to be moved.

-- 
Stephen Berg
Systems Administrator
NRL Code: 7320
Office: 228-688-5738
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