Difference between revisions of "Upgrade a wiki"

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Upgrade a wiki
Organic Design procedure

Upgrading a wiki to a more recent version involves running the update.php maintenance script. Make sure that you have created an AdminSettings.php first.

For information on how to do this, see Run a wiki maintenance script

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-Upgrading a wiki to a more recent version involves running the [[MW:Manual:Update.php|''update.php'']] [[MW:Manual:Maintenance scripts|maintenance]] script.
+Upgrading a wiki to a more recent version involves running the [[MW:Manual:Update.php|''update.php'']] [[MW:Manual:Maintenance scripts|maintenance]] script. Make sure that you have [[Creating an AdminSettings.php|created an AdminSettings.php]] first.
-The prerequisite required to be able to run these scripts is a username and password for the database that the instance of mediawiki uses. This information is contained in a file called [[MW:Manual:AdminSettings.php|AdminSettings.php]] which contains the global variables for a mysql user with root privileges.
 For information on how to do this, see [[Run a wiki maintenance script]]