Hi Poon, I've always used the reinstall-technique when upgrading my wiki, but I've never user the <wiki dir>/maintenance/update.php but rather the alternative described in
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading#Alternative_2:_Re-run_the_installer I've copied the critical text-passage from the webpage: Alternative 2: Re-run the installer An alternative to running the update script from the shell is to re-run the web installer. To do this, follow these steps: 1. Rename LocalSettings.php to LocalSettings.old.php 2. Make the config directory writable by the web server 3. Make sure the database user has full rights to the database 4. Browse to the wiki and start the installer Fill in the form fields with the same values as was done during the previous version's installation. When the installation process starts, the script will detect existing MediaWiki tables, and upgrade their schema. When this is complete, a new LocalSettings.php will be generated. 5. Delete the new configuration file (LocalSettings.php) 6. Rename LocalSettings.old.php back to LocalSettings.php 7. Restore permissions on the config directory It's always worked well for me. :-) Note that you should compare your version of LocalSettings.php with the new version that came with the upgrade in order to adopt those changes and innovations you want/need to use with the new version. You should do that between step 4. and 5. ;-) Greetings Katharina _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
