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 all seem to be out of date so I'm a little wary to attempt them.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.
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