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mediawiki-admin-guide
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mediawiki-admin-guide
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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?
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View the source of any wiki page. Locate the generator meta tag inside
the head tag.
Example:
.. code-block:: html
.. raw:: html
.. raw:: html
.. raw:: html
Main Page - mywiki
.. raw:: html
.. raw:: html
.. raw:: html
In the example above our generator is *MediaWiki 1.16.2*.
Migrating and upgrading a MediaWiki install
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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:
.. code-block:: bash
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:
.. code-block:: apache
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:
.. code-block:: bash
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
.. code-block:: bash
mysql -u root -p wikidb < wikidb-dump-2012-11-26.sql
Enable Virtual Host and restart Apache
.. code-block:: bash
sudo a2ensite 001-wiki sudo a2dissite default sudo apache2 restart
Navigate to the new servers IP address or domain name and verify
migration.