Moving mediawiki to a different server

• make a dump of the database

ex:
mysqldump --port=2081 --socket=mysql.sock --user=root
--password=yourpasswd --databases wikidb --single-transaction
--flush-logs | bzip2 -c > backup.bz2

• make a archive of the web folder of wiki

ex: tar jcvf web.backup.tbz wiki/

• On the new server install mysql, php , php-mysql, httpd
• create a database and user in mysql.
• change LocalSettings.php to point to new database
• start/restart httpd