Thread:Project:Support desk/Update previous MW 1.16.5 to 1.17.0 throws an 500 internal server error/reply (8)

I unfortunately can't access the command line. There must be a way around this? The help suggest "Use the confic script", which is a nice doom loop... There are hundreds of people that have this exact problem, but somehow nobody posts a solution (just the problem ^^)! The installation of MediaWiki was tricky enough, why does the update have such obstacles? i've never had any problems with any script installation, exept with mediawiki, it's allways a huge hassle... So help would be very much appreciated!