I'm hoping some kind soul will be able to show me the shortest way to get to my goal. In a nutshell, I am trying to migrate my mediawiki install to a FreeBSD jail...Here are the details.
I have a mediawiki installation on an ancient Debian/sid OpenVZ container. It is mediawiki 1.19 installation running a MySQL 5.0.74 backend.
The target machine is a FreeBSD 13.1 iocage jail running mediawiki 1.38 with MySQL 5.7.38 server. So I have both wikis up and running, and I would like to transfer the data from old to the new. Is it as simple as making a mysqldump of the old database and tarring up the files and putting them on the new wiki (minus LocalSettings.php)? Or is there more to it than that?
For instance, do I need to upgrade the Debian instance to mediawiki 1.35 before trying this?
Thanks,
--vr
I have a mediawiki installation on an ancient Debian/sid OpenVZ container. It is mediawiki 1.19 installation running a MySQL 5.0.74 backend.
The target machine is a FreeBSD 13.1 iocage jail running mediawiki 1.38 with MySQL 5.7.38 server. So I have both wikis up and running, and I would like to transfer the data from old to the new. Is it as simple as making a mysqldump of the old database and tarring up the files and putting them on the new wiki (minus LocalSettings.php)? Or is there more to it than that?
For instance, do I need to upgrade the Debian instance to mediawiki 1.35 before trying this?
Thanks,
--vr