From: Platonides(a)gmail.com
Parker Jones wrote:
I have to move my wiki installation several times a year and it's always a laborious,
time-consuming admin task.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Moving_a_wiki
I was wondering if there were any plans to make it easier? Would it be possible to
develop a script or admin functionality to automate the task - saying breaking it into
just two steps: "Export entire wiki" and "Import wiki". It would
backup/restore the database, copy any additional files LocalSettings, (uploaded images
etc), ...
It's easy to do, but each sysadmin will have different needs and will
thus need different scripts.
Thanks for your suggestion and scripts Platonides, I maintain a sequence of commands too.
I think it comes down to different user groups: some people maintain a large mediawiki
installation for an organisation/company/club (usually sys-admin-/db-admin types), others
use it as a personal wiki. The latter group is not a regular admin type, so a sequence of
admin steps is not really appropriate.
Another
problem I encounter is that one platform has an older version of mediawiki and the new
platform has a newer version - but to move the wiki there's no way around installing
two versions on one of the servers. Am I missing something?
Moving to an older wiki is not supported. You could install two
mediawiki versions side by side, each with its own database but what you
neeed is to update if you are moving to a server with an *older*
mediawiki (moving to a newer mediawiki is not a problem, just run
update.php, see the above sample)
Yes just as I thought, you need to two installations. For me this is a pain because the
initial installation was from a package manager (apt) so a second manual installation is
unavoidable. Makes perfect sense for large installs, but still too hairy for the personal
wiki demographic.
Perhaps a LAMP stack is simply too heavy duty for a personal wiki. I have just discovered
MediawikiLite which uses sqllite and nanoweb and I am now looking into that.
Cheers,
Parker
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