Thread:Project:Support desk/Easy way to upgrade from version 1.8 to 2.1?/reply (10)

Thank you for your help thus far.

I am though, becoming increasingly frustrated by this process. It does not appear to be doing what is required of it.

"# php /var/www/html/mediawiki/maintenance/importDump.php < /home/mydirectory/mediawiki_backup-wikidb-20140123.xml PHP Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach in /var/www/html/mediawiki/includes/Block.php on line 288 100 (88.73 pages/sec 88.73 revs/sec) PHP Fatal error:  Call to a member function fetch_array on a non-object in /var/www/html/mediawiki/includes/db/DatabaseMysqli.php on line 144"
 * I have backed up my original database using both mysqldump and dumpBackup.php.
 * I have backed up my old mediawiki directory.
 * I have transferred these files to my new server.
 * I Have unpacked the tarball of the new version of mediawiki on my new server.
 * I have unpacked my old mediawiki directory into a different directory to the new version of mediawiki.
 * I have copied the LocalSettings.php and the images/ directory from my old nediawiki to the new mediawiki directory.
 * I have copied the extensions directory contents from my old mediawiki to the new mediawiki directory.
 * I have restored the mysqldump created file successfully.
 * 1) /usr/bin/mysql -u root --password=9xbMkl7M wikidb < /home/mydirectory/mysql_backup-wikidb-20140123.sql
 * I have restored the files created with dumpBackup.php to the new mysql database.
 * I now get an error:

I am sorry but I appear to just be running around in circles. This is very frustrating. I have followed the process on the page I was directed to and it DOES NOT WORK.