[Noisebridge-discuss] media wiki data - export of old database to a new installation

[Frantisek Apfelbeck]

Hi to all,
I need to get the data which I had in my old media wiki (personal web pages) to the new installation - I'm moving the content to a new server, my friend Jim is taking thankfully taking care about that.

I wonder how do I get to the data in the wiki? I have the tar file of all the data which I had on the part of the server which I used (many thanks to Ronald for hosting) and I see directories: etc; mail; perl5; public_ftp; public_html; ssl; tmp; www. In a public_html I have found directory wiki. I see images there which is good but I do not know where to find the texts/data. I wonder if I have to install MySQL to be able to access these data, my knowledge of databases is on a freezing point (which will have to change soon). Also I wonder how difficult would it be to export the old database (once I find it and access it) to the new media wiki installation? I'm beginner in this so I'm quite lost feeling that I will probably have to upload all the texts and images manually because it is too difficult for me to do it the "easy way".

Anyway any help would be really appreciated!

Sincerely,
 
Frantisek Algoldor Apfelbeck


PS I'm now trying to install media wiki on a local computer so I can exercise a bit and get better understanding of what I'm doing using this guide

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Installation_guide


biotechnologist&kvasir and hacker


http://www.frantisekapfelbeck.org


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