Hello Folks,

I got a private Mediawiki 1.4 from 2005 which still runs on a Debian 5 machine. 
I'm about to virtualize this because of various reasons but the first problem I 
ran into just after trying to move it to a clean Wheezy install is that it's 
incompatible with:

ii  php5                               5.4.4-14+deb7u14              all        
  server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language (metapackage)

Of course the solution what I found online was to upgrade your mediawiki 
because it have so many advantages blahblah. Really? New features I do not 
need, and although I went through with the upgrade it become 20xtimes slower + 
I lost the custom skin I had. This all seems disadvantages to me.

So correct me if I'm wrong but by just doing some research this version with 
(1-2 extensions like poem) has no know serious security vulnerability (RFI). 

What I don't want to do is to install another outdated debian just because of 
this, I rather downgrade the php version to (5.2). Can anyone come up with any 
advantage of upgrading Mediawiki from 1.4 to 1.23?


Question2: Storage Engine
=========================

Since this is a small (~3000 pages) private wiki which doesn't get a lot of 
articles added every day, mostly just used for searching and reading articles 
which storage engine is the faster MyISAM or Innodb? I do not care about 
reliability, only speed since the db is backed up every day and as I said it's 
rarely gets new content.

Thanks!


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