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Etaulbee (talkcontribs)

I've been tasked with upgrading our Mediawiki application. The upgrade path is a big jump:

Old:

New:

Product Version
MediaWiki 1.34.0
PHP 7.2.24-0ubuntu0.18.04.3 (apache2handler)
MariaDB 10.1.44-MariaDB-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
ICU 60.2

Not having any luck as to find the best way to get this upgrade done (new system is already online).

Is there any info on the best way to cut to old system over to the new one? Recommendations?

Thank you in advance!

Bawolff (talkcontribs)

well your lucky its 1.5 (1.4 is a pita to upgrade from).

Basically take a backup first of all. Then follow normal upgrading instructions (see manual:upgrading). In theory it should just work if your coming from 1.5. However upgrading from that old is prob not tested much. If it doesnt work, id say try and do it in steps - first to 1.16 and then to 1.34, but definitely try doing it in one shot first as it may just work.

Ciencia Al Poder (talkcontribs)

We'd also appreciate your feedback about the upgrade process, if you succeeded to do the one-step upgrade or if you did need to do multiple steps

Etaulbee (talkcontribs)

I'll hopefully try this over the weekend - will post update.


Etaulbee (talkcontribs)

Forgot to update this - my apologies! Long story short, we're doing a manual cut over of data so no need to do an upgrade!