Thread:Project:Support desk/MediaWiki 1.5 to 1.21 upgrade/reply (9)

Ive redone it all again - reinstalled debian, installed apache/php5/mySQL/phpmyadmin, copied the mediawiki folder from the original server (tar) and extracted it into /lib/www/mediawiki on the new server, also copied the DB to the new server and created the wikiuser account with all rights to the DB.

all the files are in the /var/www folder on the new server, there is a symlink on the old box for /var/lib/mediawiki and /var/www/mediawiki (from where it was installed via packages)

i have recreated the alias in /etc/apache2/httpd.conf:

ALIAS /wiki "/var/www/mediawiki/index.php"

i now get a 403 Forbidden error - im guessing this is simply a chmod issue now? but im not sure how to fix it. once i have the 1.15 version working, i will do the upgrade to 1.21!