I spent 2 or 3 hours working intensively on Sunday morning, completing SMART03 and then tackling the next steps towards getting the wiki up and running on the new host.

• I saved the account details in gmail and private furl.
• I set up a new ftp connection in Dreamweaver.
• uploaded all the mediaWiki subdirectories and files to the new host.
• logged in to the dc-hosting control panel
• experimented with the file manager therein. This is a tricky tool, when choosing a file from the directory tree-structure on the left it doesn’t always seem to tally with the one pointed to by the control panel ( add read/write/exe permissions etc ) on the right. It took many attempts to make the /config directory writable.

*But once I succeeded, the php script which configures the wiki did actually start to run.

That was a breakthrough.

The script then demanded answers to questions about the mySQL database

it took several attempts to even find the place for managing this part of the hosting, but once discovered it is easier to recognise another time. I created a database called “wiki” and a user for it, then put these details into the config script. After a few goes, I got it right and the script ran right through, telling me that my wiki is now installed – and I can click ::here:: to start using it.

Another breakthrough, even if clicking there does only result in an error message from the browser – “ukcider.co.uk not found”.

Since then I have wondered whether it’s todo with the delay in DNS transference, although that doesn’t make total sense it’s the next thing to rule out. So tomnorrow will tell. If that’s not it, then I have to look at the database creation, config parameters and file permissions again, uninstall and re-install everything and try again looking out for references to the domain which may be absolute instead of relative or something like that.

So I was disappointed that I didn’t get it working today, but I suppose I have made quite a lot of progress really.