Tech Geek wrote:
I am using MediaWiki 1.12 installed on Linux machine.
You should be using MediaWiki 1.16...
We have been using MediaWiki for over a year with the
file upload variables
set to their default values. Here is what the current mediawiki image
folder looks like:
wikiserver:~# ls /var/www/wiki/images
0 2 4 6 8 a b d e gnuplot thumb
1 3 5 7 9 archive c deleted f temp
Now we need to change upload directory path to something more generic like
"uploads" with the hash strcture instead of "images" directory.
...
Now I am thinking to have the following in my
LocalSettings.php file:
$wgUploadPath = "{$wgScriptPath}/uploads";
$wgUploadDirectory = "{$IP}/uploads/";
$wgHashedUploadDirectory = false;
So far everything looks good and the new files uploaded will work just fine.
Now my question (s):
What about the links/path to the files that have been upload previously? I
am guessing that those will break since they reside in
/var/lib/mediawiki/images directory. Do I need to move them to the new
upload directory /var/lib/mediawiki/uploads ? What about the existing
articles that link to those files in the images directory? Is there a script
which will do the automated image link building?
Thanks
The articles know just the image name. The is generated from that so
just moving everything by it should fix it (if you uploaded into uploads
a new version of a file which existed in images you may need to manually
clean it).
As you also changed from $wgHashedUploadDirectory to false, you will
need to move the files from the childs to the uploads root. There's a
script for moving files into hashed folders if needed, too.
The cached pages may still contain pointers to the old location, but
changing LocalSettings.php by defaults updates $wgCacheEpoch forcing to
rerender them.
If someone manually linked to the old location (eg. where they should
have used Media:), well, that link will break. You can use
Special:LinkSearch for the wiki, and/or place a redirect from images to
uploads.