Upgrade from 1.3 to 1.4
ngungo@56degrees.com, is attempting to upgrade his media wiki, here are his commands, in order.
in brief
- Backup the database (in case something goes wrong installing)
- Unrar the new mediawiki version into its own new folder
- Redirect (symlink) trafic (from the old wiki folder) to that new folder
- chmod the new wiki folder's /config directory to 777 (everyone can do everything with it)
- Point your browser to the wiki's index.php or config/index.php
- Fill out that install form
- Move the generated localsettings.php in /config up one directory
- chmod the /config directory back to non-readable, writable, or executable
- Replace the /images directory with the old /images
- Restart apache.
for details of each task see Upgrade from 1.2 to 1.3