Thread:Project:Support desk/MediaWiki 1.5 to 1.21 upgrade/reply (13)

found a part of the issue - looks like when mediawiki whas installed on the debian container it was split across different locations with symlinks combining them, when i tar'ed the mediawiki folder to go to the new one, it only gathered the files from the immediate folder (var/lib/mediawiki) and kept the shortcuts/symlinks (etc/mediawiki & usr/share/mediawiki) instead of combining them into the file - so the main error looks like i've not actaully copied the whole folder over.

i've also noticed that there is a missing adminsettings.php as a symlink file that i cant find on my existing server! (this probably explains some of the missing/broken features...)

2 questions now:

a) how can i create a tar file to create a file that has brought all the symlinks into one file - or am i going to have to do this manually? b) i) where can i get the 1.15 mediawiki to install  ii) if i install a 1.15 version and then extract my files on top would this replace any missing files?