Thread:Project:Support desk/PHP and Mysql was upgraded on my server and now I get a blank white page./reply (7)

Hi again,

the page Installation contains a walk through on how to set up a new installation of MediaWiki.

If it is only about the pages (not about uploaded files or MediaWiki extensions), which you want to keep, then you can go through the installation instructions. When you are in the installer, where it asks you for a database name, enter a name of an empty database. Then complete installation. You will get an empty new Wiki.

Now two possible ways of getting your data back:
 * Extract it out of your old database manually and save it in your new wiki. See one of the first sections on Manual:Page_table for a way how to locate the current versions of the text on your pages.
 * The second possibility is to now change the database name and the database password in LocalSettings.php so that it points to the database from your old wiki (= the one with your old pages in it). Then the new wiki will use your old database. Run the web updater to update this old database to the new layout.

After one of these processes you should have a new wiki with your old content in it.