MediaWiki 1.21 requires PHP 5.3.2 or later.
MediaWiki 1.43 maintains its minimum PHP requirement of version 8.1.x. PHP 8.2.x and 8.3.x are also supported by MediaWiki 1.43. PHP 8.4.x is not.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.21
Important things from changelogs:
| Status | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved | valerio.bozzolan | T1330 Install VisualEditor in pietro.pensa.it | ||
| Resolved | valerio.bozzolan | T1328 Upgrade MediaWiki from 1.21.11 (2013) to 1.43.5 LTS | ||
| Resolved | valerio.bozzolan | T1331 Upgrade from PHP 5.6.40 to PHP 8.1.0+ or PHP 8.3+ | ||
| Resolved | valerio.bozzolan | T1362 Test MediaWiki 1.43.5 LTS with PHP 8.3 locally | ||
| Resolved | valerio.bozzolan | T1359 Create local environment on boz laptop of pietro.pensa.it | ||
| Resolved | valerio.bozzolan | T1360 boz laptop: install PHP 8.3 (I only have PHP 8.4) through sury.org | ||
| Resolved | valerio.bozzolan | T1361 Download database dump of pietro.pensa.it | ||
| Resolved | valerio.bozzolan | T1363 Test MediaWiki 1.35 with PHP 7.3.19+ |
OK so.
Set maintenance.
Downloaded dump again.
Downloaded files again.
rsync --archive --verbose --progress --compress pietro.pensa.it:/home/dh_6zzy29/pietro.pensa.it/mediawiki/ /var/www/pietro.pensa.it/httpdocs/mediawiki-1.21.latest
Updating with 1.35 with symlink to old files
ln -s mediawiki-1.35.14 mediawiki cd mediawiki sudo -u www-data php7.3 maintenance/update.php sudo -u www-data php7.3 maintenance/populateContentTables.php sudo -u www-data php7.3 maintenance/update.php
Updating with latest version
rm mediawiki ln -s mediawiki-1.43/ mediawiki sudo -u www-data php8.3 maintenance/update.php