Thread:Project:Support desk/MediaWiki 1.5 to 1.21 upgrade/reply (14)

> the main error looks like i've not actaully copied the whole folder over.

Make sure you use no symlinks. Not a single one. Instead, copy over all(!) actual files.

To a): Yes, I think you should do that manually. MediaWiki can run fine without any symlink.

b) Here. No, just joking. Here: http://dumps.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.15/

c) Don't do that. It would replace missing files, but only as far as they are actually part of the main package. All other files will 'not be replaced. You won't come araound a manual run.