Difference between revisions of "MediaWiki Upgrade April 2011"

Latest revision as of 15:25, 21 April 2011

update completed 4:34 PM Thursday, April 21, 2011

1. backup the mediawiki mysql database with mysqld running. (do not stop the mysqld service)

 mysqldump -u root -p --default-character-set=latin1 XXXXwiki -c > XXXXwiki-backup.sql

2. backup the mediawiki filesystem which contains configuration files and uploaded images

 tar -sp -zcvf /XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX/mediawikiXXXXXX.tgz /XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX/mediawikiXXXXXX

3. get the latest version of MediaWiki (below example only, version 1.16.4) The latest version is at: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download

 wget http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.16/mediawiki-1.16.4.tar.gz

4. extract directly into existing mediawiki installation using special replace syntax

 tar xvfz mediawiki-1.16.4.tar.gz
 cp -r mediawiki-1.16.4/* /XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX/mediawikiXXXXXX/

5. run the php shell update script

 cd /home/httpd/webapps/mediawikiXXXXXX/maintenance
 php update.php

6. fix permissions

 cd /XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX/mediawikiXXXXXX
 chgrp XXXXX * -R
 chown XXXXX * -R
 chmod XXX * -R

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-HowTo Backup and Upgrade XXXXXXXXXXXX in MediaWiki
+== MediaWiki Successfully Updated ==
+update completed 4:34 PM Thursday, April 21, 2011
+== HowTo Backup and Upgrade XXXXXXXXXXXX in MediaWiki ==
 based on: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading
 adapted to the XXXXXXXXX
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    cd /XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX/mediawikiXXXXXX
-   chgrp httpd * -R
+   chgrp XXXXX * -R
+  chown XXXXX * -R
    chmod XXX * -R
+[[File:wikiupdate2.png]]
+&nbsp;
+&nbsp;
+edit test 006