Thread:Project:Support desk/Order of MW upgrade (1.22 to 1.24) + extensions

Dear all,

I'm having some difficulties in upgrading Mediawiki from 1.22 to 1.24. I'm struggling to understand what is the best order for upgrading MW and the related extensions.

To my understanding I should not update the extensions to the latest version before the MW update as this might stop MW to work, right?

On the other hand I am seeing the same issues if I do it the other way around (MW update first). After this my wiki only comes up with error messages that are related to incompatible extensions.

What I did so far: I deleted the whole wiki files (except the "images" folder and LocalSettings.php) and copied the new MW 1.24 file structure to the server. After this I moved back my LocalSettings.php to the root dir.

It even looks like that this prevents the maintenance/update.php script from running (apart from the html errors mentioned above I am also seeing similar error messages in PuTTY when trying to run this script).

Therefore I am a bit stuck and don't really know in which orders I should do the updates?!?

Could anybody please give me some hints?

BTW - compatibility of MW 1.24 and PHP/SQL has been confirmed.

Many thanks!