On 7/9/07, Hiram Clawson hiram@soe.ucsc.edu wrote:
Good Afternoon MediaWiki Fans:
I'm curious what procedures folks use to safely update a MediaWiki installation that is in use.
Do you disable the system temporarily while running the update procedure ?
Or create a copy of the site and do the update there, then switch ?
Or simply run the update procedure and cross your fingers and hope nothing goes wrong ?
It isn't clear to me how to properly update a running system.
--Hiram
I just set the wiki to read-only (with Special:Lockdb) and run the update. I don't know if it would actually mess anything up if I didn't set it to read-only, but I figure better safe than sorry.