Thread:Project:Support desk/How to migrate a very old Wiki on Solaris to a new one on Windows?

Hello,

According to the manual page on moving a Wiki, combining a move with an upgrade doesn't work. However, I've a very old Wiki on Solaris that is running: Mysql     4.1.9 MediaWiki 1.3.5, 2004-09-30 PHP       4.3.10

And I've been tasked with migrating it to a new Windows server that currently has the following: MediaWiki 1.16.5 Mysql 5.5.8 PHP 5.3.5

I thought about setting up an older version on the Windows machine, then do a migration followed by an upgrade, but the oldest version I can find in the archive is 1.3.11 from March, 2005. (I've not even tried to find a Mysql release that is that old, yet.)

The only other alternative I can think of would be to first try to upgrade on Solaris, but I have limited permissions on that system, and with Solaris waning in popularity, I'd either have to build everything from scratch, or I would have to install two year old versions on Solaris, then upgrade, then migrate to Windows, then upgrade again.

Is there another alternative out there?