On 11/25/2009 11:40 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
On 11/23/2009 09:44 PM, Robert L Cochran wrote:
Does the Fedora Project have a wiki page explaining how to migrate a
mediawiki wiki on one server to another server, and perhaps from one
release of Fedora to a newer release? I just migrated my own personal
wiki from my Fedora 11 machine (mediawiki-1.15.1-50) to Fedora 12
(mediawiki-1.15.1-51), and I would like to post my experiences with
this so they can benefit some other person.
I'm familiar with the mediawiki.org pages for moving a wiki, but they
miss some essential steps. And there are some Fedora-specific steps
that could be documented as well.
Something like that would be extremely simple. Heck, I've even moved a
Mediawiki from MySQL to PostgreSQL. The Fedora package does not add
any extra errata versus a vanilla Mediawiki.
(I'll assume you use MySQL)
1. mysqldump -h localhost -u root -p wikidb > wikidb.sql
2. SFTP wikidb.sql and /usr/share/mediawiki/LocalSettings.php to new
server.
3. mysql -h localhost -u root -p < wikidb.sql
4. Copy LocalSettings.php to /usr/share/mediawiki
Done.
With respect. it is not quite simple at all. You missed a few things
above such as restoring symlinks. LocalSettings.php doesn't go in
/usr/share/mediawiki, although a copy is there. It is actually in the
web server's wiki directory. You also need to copy the entire web server
directory for the wiki because that is where things like images are
stored, again not in /usr/share/mediawiki. (You don't really want users
having access to /usr. Our implementation of Wordpress does that in
Fedora 11.)
For a lot of people a detailed how-to guide is extremely valuable.
Bob
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