I am using https://bitnami.com/stack/mediawiki which "one-click installs" a mediawiki stack on my MacBook. This means I can point my browser to http://localhost:8080/mediawiki/Main_Page and create my wiki from that page (which I did, putting several months of neuroscience research work into this wiki).
I upgraded Mavericks -> Yosemite, and it no longer worked.
Bitnami fixed their stack; upgrading /Applications/mediawiki-1.23.3-0 -> /Applications/mediawiki-1.23.6-0 gives me a fresh Wiki.
But how to transfer all my old wiki across?
This is what the filesystems look like:
pi@piBookAir.local ~ /etc:
⤐ ls /Applications/mediawiki-1.23.3-0/
README.txt apps common img manager-osx.app php scripts uninstall.app
apache2 changelog.txt ctlscript.sh licenses mysql properties.ini sqlite use_mediawiki
(mediawiki-1.23.6-0 has identical structure)
I attempt to find where my user data is being kept:
pi@piBookAir.local ~ /etc:
⤐ sudo find /Applications/ -iname "*dendrite*"
/Applications//mediawiki-1.23.3-0/apps/mediawiki/htdocs/images/1/1d/2014_--_Regulatory_mechanisms_underlying_the_differential_growth_of_dendrites_and_axons.pdf
/Applications//mediawiki-1.23.3-0/apps/mediawiki/htdocs/images/f/f0/2002_--_Axon-_or_dendrite-predominant_outgrowth_induced_by_constituents_from_Ashwagandha.pdf
ok, that is finding a couple of PDF-s I added into the wiki as resources.
So I've attempted to overwrite:
mediawiki-1.23.6-0//apps/mediawiki/htdocs/*
with:
mediawiki-1.23.3-0//apps/mediawiki/htdocs/*
And making the following modifications to mediawiki-1.23.6-0//apps/mediawiki/htdocs/LocalSettings.php :
## Database settings (old x.3 version)
$wgDBtype = "mysql";
$wgDBserver = "localhost";
$wgDBname = "bitnami_mediawiki";
$wgDBuser = "bitnami";
$wgDBpassword = "d77297bcc6";
## (new x.6 version):
## $wgDBtype = "mysql";
## $wgDBserver = "localhost:3306";
## $wgDBname = "bitnami_mediawiki";
## $wgDBuser = "bitnami";
## $wgDBpassword = "ed5e8d6e1c";
i.e. Using the old settings Also replacing "1.23.3" -> "1.23.6" everywhere.
However, this doesn't work. If I keep the new password it does produce a standard empty wiki page. With the old password no page loads, there is an error.
I also tried posting on the Bitnami forum: https://community.bitnami.com/t/transfer-wiki-from-1-23-3-to-1-23-5/26629 but can't see how to implement the reply.
How can I transfer my wiki, short of having to reinstall Mavericks + mediawiki-1.23.3-0, make a backup of the wiki, and then upgrade again to Yosemite + mediawiki-1.23.6-0 and restore from this backup?
EDIT: here is the complete 1.23.3 file structure (that somehow contains my original wiki data: http://www.pasteall.org/55429)
There are a couple of ways:
Dump your DB from the old version and import to the new DB that you'll be using.
mysqldump -h hostname -u userid --password --default-character-set=whatever dbname > backup.sql
Export your Wiki to XML and then import it.
"To create an XML dump, use the command-line tool dumpBackup.php, located in the maintenance directory of your MediaWiki installation. See Manual:dumpBackup.php for more details."