[Wylug-help] Need to re-access old data after Mediawiki upgrade

[John Hodrien]

On Mon, 27 Apr 2009, Dave Fisher wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Hopefully there is a mediawiki user out there who can help med with the
> folowing questions.
>
> Does media wiki store all of its data in /var/lib/mysql/wikidb, by
> default? (debian/ubuntu).

That sounds believable, although it's not accessing that directly, since it's
going through mysql.  So the actual on-disk location is irrelevent.

> If so, how do I get a new installation to use the stuff in that
> directory?

Copy the database details out of the old install's LocalSettings.php.

jh

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