[Mediawiki-l] Re: Upgrading from 1.5b3 to 1.5b4

Tue Aug 2 10:46:12 UTC 2005

Nicolas STRANSKY wrote:
> Le 02.08.2005 12:09, Ashar Voultoiz a écrit :
> 
>>Nicolas STRANSKY wrote:
>><snip>
>>
>>>Yes it does seem to work but I don't even know what is the proper way to
>>>upgrade a mediawiki 1.5 installation.
>>
>>The process should be something like:
>> 1/ back up your data
>> 2/ lock database / shutdown site
>> 3/ put new files from the tar.gz
>> 4/ run ./maintenance/update.php (that will deal with database changes)
>> 5/ unlock database / restart site
> 
> 
> Thanks for the hint.
> I guess that AdminSettings.php should contain the root password for the
> mysql database ?
> 

It used to be that way, but now that's set in $wgDBpassword in
LocalSettings.php, and is inserted by the installation/configuration
script. You might remember it asked for the DB database name, user name,
and password at installation. I don't know just when that changed, but
it should be easy enough to dig out of a changelog.

-- 
John R. Owens
ProofReading Markup Language: http://prml.sourceforge.net/

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