Thread:Project:Support desk/Moving mediawiki 1.10.0 from Windows 2003 server to RHEL 6 server/reply (4)

Hi!

Basically it's not hard:

You have the MediaWiki source code. All files from the old source code are no longer needed and should be removed. Instead put the new files there.

Then there are the file LocalSettings.php and the folder images/. They contain your custom data. Keep them.

If you have extensions installed (check Special:Version), they are in the folder extensions/. Keep these as well and update them to make sure they work with your new wiki version.

What skin are you using? If it is one of the skins coming with MediaWiki, there is nothing to do here. If you have an own skin, then you need to update it. The according files then are in the folder skins/.

If you have additional files apart from those named above, you should check, what they are doing. They are not coming with MediaWiki.

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If you think that files might have been changed, you can download the old MediaWiki version from http://dumps.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.10/, extract it and then compare your wiki folder with that newly extracted folder. That e.g. works on the shell with something like diff -ru mediawiki-1.10/ my-wiki-folder/ > differences.txt. Your wiki folder should only contain additional files, but not changed files. If you have changes, you might want to integrate them in the new wiki version. However, modifying the MediaWiki source code is not recommended. You should do things differently, e.g. with configuration settings or by using hooks.