Manual talk:Upgrading/Archive 2

This has just been changed back into a redirect with the reason "less work, more up-to-date", however I think this page had a useful purpose, which is more than a simple 'upgrading to the latest version' page can offer.

Is there any objection to re-instating the page as it was?

--HappyDog 13:28, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Error
When i try to run: $ php update.php --aconf ../AdminSettings.php

I got the following error: Error, Setup.php must be included from the file scope, after DefaultSettings.php.

What do I do? --Bluesoju 16:51, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

Another Error " failed with error code "Can't create table './wahes_db/querycache_info.frm' (errno: 121) (localhost)" What to do 216.135.135.218

No SSH shell available
I can't access to a command line, or an SSH shell or similar and so I can't run $ php update.php --aconf ../AdminSettings.php

so, how can I update the database?

--anonymous 13:51, 20 June 2009 (CET)

Language Error
My English Sites has Hebrew and Arabic Languages throughout. When I upgraded to 1.15.1 the languages came out looking like this Î•ÎºÎºÎ»Î·ÏƒÎ¹Î± ×”×’×¨×™× ×”×’×¨×™× ×”×ª×•×©×‘×™× ×”×ª×•×©×‘×™× ×”×’×¨×™× ×¢×‘×“ ×§× ××™ ØµØ§Ø¨Ø¦Ø© ØµØ§Ø¨Ø¦ÙŠÙ† Ù…Ø³Ù„Ù… WikiNoah Admin

continue getting error
Hi

whenever I try the update, i get the follwing error message: MediaWiki 1.15.1 Updater

A connection to the database could not be established. Check the values of $wgDBadminuser and $wgDBadminpassword.

I am quite sure the values are correct. I am using Produkt 	Version MediaWiki 	1.15.1 PHP 	5.2.9 (apache2handler) MySQL 	5.1.35 with MacOS X

can anybody help?

Regards MOh

Hi M0h,

I've solved it, by setting $wgDBserver to "127.0.0.1"; in LocalSettings.php Regards exe

MySQL 5.4
By the way, just for reference, MySQL 5.4beta3 x64 Windows Binary seams to be working fine, see here if youd like to see an example.

This script must be run from the command line
cant run the upgrade script from firefox

INDEX command denied to user
i am trying to upgrade a number of wikis [1.11.0 and 1.11.2] to 1.15.1. on virtually all the upgrades i am getting an error:

MySQL returned error "1142: INDEX command denied to user '$WIKIadm'@'localhost' for table 'pagelinks' (localhost)"

the problem being that on each of them, when i go into mysql and issue a show grants, all of those users have INDEX:

mysql> show grants for '$WIKIadm'@'localhost'; +---+ | Grants for $WIKIadm@localhost                                                                                | +---+ | GRANT USAGE ON *.* TO '$WIKIadm'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY PASSWORD '$PASSWORD'                              | | GRANT SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, CREATE, ALTER, LOCK TABLES ON `$WIKI`.* TO '$WIKIadm'@'localhost'      | +---+ 2 rows in set (0.01 sec)

so what gives?

Where do you come from?
I realy miss the clear description whether or not you may upgrade from earlier versions of MW than the predecessor of the announced version. To give an example: I was asked by a customer: Can I upgrade from version 1.9 directly to the newest MW version? and being not well educated in MW my self, I had no proper reaction to make.

Are there restrictions? What restrictions may exist when you have a lot of Extensions installed? OK I accept that you have to find out for each extentention whether or not it supports the version to be installed. But nevertheless a warining for that should be in place here.

Again, may experience on this subject is too low to make changes myslef so please make soma improvements on this subject in the page if you can. JanEnEm 06:46, 25 April 2010 (UTC)


 * Great! Tim Starling did me (and others I hope) the favor introducing a FAQ section that amongst others answers the subject I raised here. Thanks Tim! JanEnEm 18:34, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

Applying a patch
The demarcation between MW specific and OS/other issues is not always obvious. Applying a patch is one of them.

I spent the best part of a day hunting for information about how to apply a MW patch to no avail. Since it is central to the quick application of MW security fixes I think it would be useful to have at least a 'patch file application basics' somewhere on the MW site. Anyway here's what I eventually came up with - posted here in hopes it may help somebody:

Applying a MW patch file requires the Unix 'Patch' utility to be available (or equivalents on other OS's). Detailed usage/syntax instructions are here but the following worked for me on Centos 5.4:


 * 1) Extract the tar.gz to the wiki root directory.
 * 2) Execute the command "patch -i  PATCHFILENAME -p 1

The '-p 1' parameter strips the first part of the pathname from each of the files to be patched. This is necessary because the MW patch files specify each file to be patched from the domain root using the full release specification name as the first directory down from the domain root.

Once you've got it, the whole process takes just a few minutes. Having gone through about 10 installs/upgrades since starting with MW about 9 months ago, I'm fairly proficient at it. However, for bona-fide patches - especially important security ones - the patch process is well worth becoming proficient with.

Upgrading from 1.17alpha to a newer version of 1.17alpha
Are there any difficulties that will occur when upgrading from 1.17alpha to a newer version of 1.17alpha? I have a wiki that I want to keep always on the cutting edge (or close to it) of MediaWiki core development, but I guess this will require frequent upgrades and running of update.php. Would any problems arise in doing that? Tisane 02:59, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
 * I don't think so. I always do the same on my wiki --Diego Grez return fire 03:00, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

Upgrading DB
If I install new version of MW (1.15=> 1.16), will a DB update automatically???

-- 18 June 2010

Method not implemented error
I've hit an intermittent problem that I cannot track down. It goes like this:

Occasionally when editing an existing, or authoring a new article I get the following error when either previewing or saving changes: Method not implemented. Post to /w/index.php not supported I use pretty urls which may or may not be relevant. The problem has only appeared since upgrading from 1.16beta3 to 1.16.0. (Although it is just possible that an upgrade to both php and mysql a few days earlier is implicated). I also thought I'd got the trigger when I found that an article exhibiting this problem contained an unclosed 'blockquote' tag and closing it got rid of the error on that article; but it has since happened several times since with no such obvious trigger present.

I have run setup.php with no problems and the site seems to operate as before in all respects save for this glitch. Any suggestions/observations welcome --Sabretache 07:31, 13 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Turns out this is an Apache Mod_Security issue. Haven't figured out how to implement the precise exception yet but I'm getting there. Anyone with advice to offer welcome. --Sabretache 15:49, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

Upgrade - How?
Dear MediaWiki readers.

I'm using MediaWiki on a free webhosting service, and decides to upgrade from 1.15.0 to 1.16.0, but runs into some troubles. According to the manual, I shall locate the update script, and open it. Yeah okay, I find a update.php inside Maintenance, but I can't open it because a damn htaccess file. Well, okay, when that failed, I just for fun checked the directory config but nothing useful there.

I have to disappoint You: I do not have server access, nor SSH access, I only have FTP and HTTP access to my website, so how the h. can I upgrade, without losing all my data?

- Mikkel Trebbien, Denmark.
 * Manual:Upgrading. Max Semenik 19:34, 14 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Done - Installing extensions again. Obviously the only way to do so, but thanks. - Mikkel Trebbien, Denmark.