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<p><b>Caveat:</b><br>
I'm no longer an employee and haven't touched MediaWiki in a few
years</p>
<p>Community Library did (and does) internal hosting of the Staff
Wiki because:<br>
Wasn't to be accessed from outside so very secure<br>
Had full control and didn't need to upgrade just because the
provider said so<br>
Had plenty of virtual machine capacity available</p>
<p>That being stated:<br>
I'd <b>absolutely read the upgrade instructions</b> with a new
version<br>
I recall the actual s/w change was very easy, but <b>read to see
if you can skip versions</b>.<br>
I think it was a matter of:<br>
Bursting (unziping) MediaWiki to a folder with a different name
than used on the server.<br>
Copying the folder to the server.<br>
Copying any files as needed to the new folder.<br>
Rename the existing folder to something else.<br>
Rename the new folder to what the original folder was.<br>
Google also found "You should run update.php after each upgrade"<br>
Maybe a reboot.<br>
And Bob's your Uncle. (No relation)</p>
<p>Sometime later you can delete the renamed original folder.<br>
</p>
<p>Before doing an upgrade I'd always copy the complete virtual PC,
just in case.<br>
But obviously you can't do that.<br>
</p>
<p><b>NOTE-NOTE:</b> There is a MySql data base involved to backup
along with what you mentioned.<br>
We used phpMyAdmin to export the file.<br>
<br>
</p>
<p><b>FWIW</b><br>
I might suggest building one on site with an old PC using the old
MediaWIKI s/w.<br>
(Although that could be quite daunting)<br>
Get it running and try doing the MediaWiki upgrade.<br>
Once it is running correctly you should have a fallback option.<br>
Then upgrade PHP and whatever else 1and1 wants on your backup PC
to see if anything breaks.<br>
If it still all works, then try the upgrade on the 1and1 server<br>
</p>
<p>I googled "migrate mediawiki" and found these sites which may
help.<br>
There are others out there.<br>
</p>
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Moving_a_wiki">https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Moving_a_wiki</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2008-August/028294.html">https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2008-August/028294.html</a><br>
</p>
<p><b>You might also ask if 1and 1 will do the upgrade or possibly
find a local guru.</b><br>
</p>
<p>Bob<br>
</p>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="80">R. W. (Bob) Neeper
(Retired Toledo Scale Engineer & Library Computer Guy)
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:neeperro@gmail.com">neeperro@gmail.com</a>
Doing Genealogy at:
Community Library
Sunbury, Ohio
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/14/2019 3:12 PM, Karen Perone via
OPLINTECH wrote:<br>
</div>
<blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:66ee947e-98aa-d853-579c-3801796229a2@rodmanlibrary.com">We
are using MediaWiki for our staff intranet through 1&1/Ionos.
We need to upgrade our installation from 1.24.1 to the most recent
version 1.32 in order to upgrade our PHP version from 5.4 to 7.2.
I have an export of all the pages on the site and have downloaded
all the image and PDF files on the site. There has been no
modification to the original code except to add a couple of users
for access to the site.
<br>
<br>
Is there someone out there who would be willing to walk me through
this process? I know enough to be dangerous and don't want to blow
the whole thing up ;)
<br>
<br>
Thank you!
<br>
<br>
</blockquote>
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