Talk:MediaWiki/Upgrading

PHP and libxml2 error
I had the following error: MediaWiki 1.16.0 Updater

Your system has a combination of PHP and libxml2 versions which is buggy and can cause hidden data corruption in MediaWiki and other web apps. Upgrade to PHP 5.2.9 or later and libxml2 2.7.3 or later! ABORTING (http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=45996 for details).

I had no way to run the script from the command line, the alternatives were:
 * 1) provided here (subsection Re-run the installer), which basically means rename the Localsettings.php and navigate to the wiki to use the installation script setting it up from scratch - it then recognises the tables exist and performs an update.
 * 2) Another method which I've found to be less effort was to go to phpmyadmin under the wiki user in question and manually run the SQL required (assuming this is what had to be done).

In the mean time I've put a support ticket (#4221729) in to have that done (not sure that it would be globally done though!).

Terado 16:43, 27 February 2011 (PST)