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Browser upgrade from 1.21.1 text missing

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John Cummings (talkcontribs)

Hi

I'm running mediawiki version 1.21.1 and I have to upgrade because my web host no longer support PHP 5.3 so the website doesn't work. When I go to /wiki/mw-config/. the first page lets me select the language but the second page has a light bulb in an orange box with a text box underneath and the progress list on the right but nothing else. I have tried highlighting text to see if it is invisible for some reason but it just isn't there, here's a screenshot. How can I fix this so that I can continue the upgrade? Because of PHP being updated the website does no display text on pages, I assume this is the same problem.

The website is ccfzatlas.com.

I have managed to get as far as the Upgrade existing installation screen, the orange box has a tick in it and it seems as though it was successful however there is no option to continue to the next page.

Thanks

Ciencia Al Poder (talkcontribs)

Note that in order to upgrade your wiki you need to download a new version first and put it on the server! Read Manual:Upgrade for instructions. Accessing /wiki/mw-config/ won't upgrade it to a new version. It's just to create the database, or make changes in the database in order to use a newer version of MediaWiki.

John Cummings (talkcontribs)

Thanks, all fixed and upgraded now, I found the instructions very hard to follow, I realise that things may be different for different people but a numbered list of steps for a standard installation including images would be very helpful to have.

Ciencia Al Poder (talkcontribs)

Well I see a lot of bulleted/numbered lists there. About images, it will be confusing to show images of a "download and extract files" since it will be very different-looking depending on the operating system, if done through a GUI, a text terminal or from a web interface, etc.

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