IT/Software/Mediawiki/Upgrading Mediawiki
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Create backup of wiki database
mysqldump --user=msgwiki --password=password msgwiki > msgwikibackup.sql
Create backup of wiki files
sudo mv /var/www/html/msgwiki /var/www/html/msgwiki-backup
Download latest version
mkdir -p /var/www/html/msgwiki cd /var/www/html/msgwiki wget https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.40/mediawiki-1.40.0.tar.gz tar xvzf mediawiki-1.40.0.tar.gz mv mediawiki-1.40.0/* . rm -d mediawiki-1.40.0 rm mediawiki-1.40.0.tar.gz chown -R www-data:www-data .
Move old files over
cp /var/www/html/msgwiki-backup/LocalSettings.php . cp -R ../msgwiki-last-version/images/* images chown -R www-data:www-data images cp -R ../msgwiki-last-version/extensions/* extensions/ # Extensions can break over new versions. Be aware.
Update the database
cd maintenance sudo -u www-data php update.php sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/msgwiki
Debug any issues. This will likely include updating extensions. Here you can choose an extension and get a download link to its latest version. Replace the extension's files in the extensions directory.