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Hi

I have an old project from 2008 which was documented using mediawiki. Ten years have passed and I recently found the old HDD with this data. I copied the mediawiki directory from the hdd to /var/www/html/mediawiki in my Ubuntu 17.10 LAMP. http://localhost/mediawiki gives a blank page.

The mediawiki drecotry is over 2 GB, mostly images. Did mediawiki already use mysql in 2008?

Timo

Yes, you'll have to dump the DB on that disk to get the content back.

And additionally, your old MediaWiki version might be incomatible with the PHP version, which you are running on your new machine. So should you get according PHP errors, you probable have to upgrade MediaWiki after your move.