Help:UpgradeWiki

Warning: This page has been superseded by Assist Upgrade Actions. See there for more information. However, this old version might contain some useful information, so is preserved.

Note: The latest validated version of MediaWiki that works with Assist is 1.16.5.

Note: Although later versions may work, it is expected that the PDF export (required for most of the Assist pages) will eventually break, due to CSS being introduced in more modern versions.

Software Required

• MySQL Administrator (root access)
• php (part of MediaWiki)
• The full MediaWiki archive file, from here:
  • Current versions: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download
  • Old versions: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/

Prior to Upgrade

• Back up the database schema being affected.
• Back up the installation for the wiki being upgraded.

Upgrade

Full upgrade instructions related to your version of MediaWiki are in the folder as a file called UPGRADE. Follow these instructions

Essentially it involves running

• php /maintenance/upgrade.php

Note: php is part of MediaWiki. you may need to directly point to the php exe in the main MediaWiki folder.

Note: Ensure that the <wiki>_owner account has full access to create and alter schema properties, or updates will fail.