Recover Mediawiki articles from backup disk (solved)

[Antares]

Hi all,

I recently needed to reinstall my server for a lot of reasons. Before removing my old gentoo I've made an full backup of my hdd. However, I had a wiki (using mediawiki) and I'd like to recover my articles from my backup and put them in the new installed wiki. I copy the /var/ww/localhost/htdocs/mediawiki directory to my new disk (after emerging mediawiki and all other stuff needed) but I only have my old configuration, my article aren't there.
How can I recover them?

Excuse my english and thank's in advance.

Antares.

[coriolan]

So, where's the database? Can you log to the mysql server and check is the stuff still there?

[Antares]

I have a backup of my whole disk and my old databases are in too. I'm really a newbie in mysql. Could I import it to my new mysql server or something like this?
It's certainly a very stupid question but, are the data of the wiki (the article) saved in a databases or in other files on the hdd?

[coriolan]

Mediawiki stores the content in a mysql database. You can find the mysql settings you used from Localsettings.php from the variables: $wgDBserver, $wgDBname, $wgDBuser, $wgDBpassword and $wgDBprefix. A simple first guess of what's wrong is that mysqld is not running

[Antares]

Ok, I just copied my database files to my new mysql server and now everything is working fine ! Thank's

[gustafson]

Hi, I need some help recovering a wiki page too. I wanted to install a second wiki, so I copied the /var/ww/localhost/htdocs/mediawiki to a different location (as a backup) and the went back to the index.php page which I used to create it. I was able to create a second page using a second mysql database file.

The second page worked, but then the first page did not, returning the following error.