Here is how I upgraded from mediawiki version 1.5 to 1.8.<\/p>\n
First follow the instructions on this page<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n To find PHP version, I created a small file on the server. Called it phpinfo.php. Pasted this code in it:<\/p>\n When called within a web browser it displays useful info about PHP on the server. I got : PHP Version 5.3.2-1ubuntu4.14. so I am good here<\/p>\n Using webmin I can see that mysql is version 5.1.61. All set here too.<\/p>\n To backup\u00a0the database, I used webmin’s Mysql module<\/p>\n To backup the file system I used this command on a shell<\/p>\n This is something which I did but was not mentioned in the official upgrade procedure. I figured it will keep the install clean.<\/p>\n Delete the old files and directories except:<\/p>\n It was\u00a0easily done using webmin’s file manager. I can select multiple files by holding down control key and delete them.<\/p>\n \u00a0Then I used webmin to cut and paste the contents of the uploaded directory to the mediawiki directory.<\/p>\n I ran into problems here. File manager complained that two directories were already there [images and extensions] and wont overwrite them.<\/p>\n \u00a0Since the new images folder has nothing in it. I ignore that problem.<\/p>\n I renamed the old extensions folder to extensions_old and copied over the new extensions folder.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n After copying the stuff we need to make sure every folder under mediawiki has the correct permissions. Make everything writable by user and group called “www-data”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0I copied\u00a0the old extensions<\/p>\n Commented out\u00a0FCK editor by editing the localsettings.php file in mediawiki directory<\/p>\n Since Apache runs as www-data and ‘maybe’ the user account you are using ‘admin’ to run these scripts does not belong to www-data group… you will get errors while running the scripts in the next section. especially while running the refreshlinks.php. That script creates sub directories under images. I was getting an error and found out how to solve it\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n To solve this issue… add www-data group to your admin account temporarily. After running the scripts you can revert this change back.<\/p>\n From a putty session to the server I ran the commands:<\/p>\n While running the refreshlinks.php command some directories are created under the admin account. So lets change the permissions to\u00a0make everything writable by user and group called “www-data” one more time.<\/p>\n We are using these extensions:<\/p>\n TO DO: Need to find out the latest versions of these and update them<\/p>\n <\/p>\nCheck requirements:<\/h1>\n
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<?php phpinfo() ?><\/pre>\n
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Backup<\/h1>\n
tar cvzf mediawiki.tar.gz \/var\/www\/mediawiki<\/pre>\n
Delete old wiki files<\/h1>\n
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Unpack new files<\/h1>\n
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Correct file permisions<\/h1>\n
Copy over the extensions<\/h1>\n
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#\u00a0enabling FCK editor:\r\n# require_once(\"$IP\/extensions\/FCKeditor\/FCKeditor.php\");\r\n# $wgUseAjax = 'true';<\/pre>\n
\u00a0temporarily change user permissions<\/h1>\n
Run the update script<\/h1>\n
cd \/var\/www\/mediawiki\/maintenance<\/pre>\n
php update.php<\/pre>\n
php refreshLinks.php<\/pre>\n
Correct file permisions again<\/h1>\n
upgrade extensions<\/h1>\n
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TESTING the WYSIWYG editor : wikiEditor<\/h1>\n