David,

        Thanks for the recommendation.  It worked great.  Now I need to recreate
the custom skin.

Iry

On 12/17/12 4:42 PM, "David Gerard" <[email protected]> wrote:

>On 17 December 2012 20:51, Iry Witham <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I have been tasked with upgrading a wiki from mediawiki 1.11.0 to the
>>latest version.  I started with a VM running SLES 11 R2, Mysql Ver 14.12
>>Distrib 5.0.96, for suse-linux-gnu (x86_64) using  EditLine wrapper and
>>PHP 5.2.14.  There have been several issues related to images and the
>>highly configured skin that was designed.  I have been able to work
>>around some of these issues, but can't seem to get it to work with
>>anything beyond version 1.15.5.  Even then there has been some sort of
>>an issue where I am unable to login to make page modifications.  I then
>>upgraded to PHP 5.3.8 and now I cannot access any .php pages.  I am
>>prompted to download the file.  Additionally, I have attempted to start
>>fresh with version 1.19.3 and can't get past the php file downloading
>>issue.  Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>
>
>The .php fie downloading issue sounds like a simple Apache
>misconfiguration, where it doesn't know a PHP file is PHP so serves it
>up as binary data. Does libphp5.so in SuSE come in a package, that
>sets up Apache properly? (Debian/Ubuntu does this.)
>
>When you solve that one, try doing the upgrade without the custom
>skin, so you can see if it's at least upgradable. Then the custom skin
>can be recreated in 1.19.
>
>
>- d.
>
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