Hi Christensen, thank you very much for your reply. I did point to the new database in LocalSettings.php but it didn't work for me. Tried it three times.
Extreme phobia began about a year back when Siteground could not help me restore with two of their backups, even though they charge me for it, and I thought that one full year of hard work had gone down the drain. At that time, I thought I would not continue doing websites because if it were 10 years of effort, I would have jumped up through the window, LOL. Didn't touch my website for quite many weeks after that, even though Siteground somehow or rather manage to restore it eventually after I told them that I am giving up on websites. Anyway, I will take a plunge and try Mike's proposal. No confidence in backups these days, I know the fear is illogical. Maybe arming myself with 3 different copies will reduce the risk. PM Poon I am using a shared server and I do not have access to running the upgrade.php. On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 8:41 PM, Christensen, Courtney < [email protected]> wrote: > Did you two run upgrade.php from the maintenance folder on your databases? > And naming your database something new as long as your LocalSettings.php > points to it shouldn't cause any problems. > > Good luck! > -Courtney > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
