mediawiki-admin-guide

mediawiki admin guide ##########################

This post will document some common procedures that an admin will need to maintain a media wiki installation.

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What version of MediaWiki are we running?

View the source of any wiki page. Locate the generator meta tag inside the head tag.

Example:

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In the example above our generator is MediaWiki 1.16.2.

Migrating and upgrading a MediaWiki install

This documents the steps I took to migrate MediaWiki to a new server and then upgrade to the latest version. RHEL4 to Ubuntu.

Install the webserver stack on new server:

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sudo apt-get install apache2 php5 php5-mysql php5-cli php-apc graphviz graphviz-dev

sudo cp -p /etc/apache2/sites-available/default /etc/apache2/sites-available/001-wiki

sudo vim /etc/apache2/sites-available/001-wiki

Basic MediaWiki configuration:

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<VirtualHost *:80> ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost ServerName wiki.foxhop.net

LogLevel warn ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error-wiki.log CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access-wiki.log combined

DocumentRoot /www/wiki/mediawiki Options FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride None Order allow,deny allow from all

Create directories and download sourcecode:

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sudo mkdir /www sudo mkdir /www/wiki cd /www/wiki # copy mediawiki installation to new server and untar it sudo tar -zxvf mediawiki-backup.tar.gz sudo chown -R root:www-data /www chmod 775 mediawiki/config/ -R

import MySQL dump into new server

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mysql -u root -p wikidb < wikidb-dump-2012-11-26.sql

Enable Virtual Host and restart Apache

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sudo a2ensite 001-wiki sudo a2dissite default sudo apache2 restart

Navigate to the new servers IP address or domain name and verify migration.