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Upgrading from 1.17 to 1.23.1

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Balerion300 (talkcontribs)

Hello,

Finally took the plunge to try and get this done. I backed up our database, our backed up the file directory, I copied LocalSettings.php and our logo image -- the only really unique things we have, as we haven't modified skins such as Vector -- and untarred the file...

And now, nothing. php update.php just gives a blank response -- no countdowns, no error messages, no nothing. Trying --schema tells me that it needs a variable of some sort, even though the file says nothing about it. Right now my site -- http://awoiaf.westeros.org -- is just giving a blank, and I can't see any error messages to explain what's wrong.

Will continue digging through topics and guides to try and figure out what's going on, but if someone has some experience with problems from 1.17 -> 1.23.1, would appreciate some help.

ETA: May be worth noting that mw-config/ web update script also dies once I go through the language step. PHP version is 5.3.3.

88.130.119.221 (talkcontribs)

Hi!

I guess you have not only untarred the tarball somewhere, but you have also actually overwritten the old files, right? :-)

A blank page points to a PHP error. Follow the steps described on blank page to get the actual error message!

Balerion300 (talkcontribs)

Thank you. I had gone through it, and couldn't find the problem that way... but looked at it again, tweaked how I was handling error reporting, and that let me get further. So now I've managed it. Thanks!

88.130.119.221 (talkcontribs)

What have you done? What was the error and how could you fix it?

Balerion300 (talkcontribs)

Oh, there were an array of error messages once I figured out how to get error reporting sorted properly.

Most had to do with various extensions that were out of date (dutifully turned them off one by one), and some tweaks I needed to the auth plugin I was using (IPBWiki's bridge with the Invision Power Board forum software) that weren't too hard to figure out. Once I did that... well, my old Monobook-based theme didn't work, either, so I got rid of it and started fresh with a new copy of the latest Monobook. That, however, is presenting significant new problems for me (I've posted about inserting advertising in a different topic).

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