[Mediawiki-l] Delete Histories, with multiple wikis and indiv databases

[Tim Ware]

I edited AdminSettings.sample by adding the values for the db I want  
to delete old histories from by replacing:

$wgDBadminuser      = 'wikiadmin';
$wgDBadminpassword  = 'adminpass';

with

$wgDBserver         = "mysql.mydomaini.com";
$wgDBname           = "mydatabase";
$wgDBuser           = "myuser";
$wgDBpassword       = "mypassword";
$wgDBprefix         = "wiki_";
$wgDBtype           = "mysql";
$wgDBport           = "5432";

I then changed the name of that file to AdminSettings.pgp

I telneted into the server, into the /wiki/maintenance/ directory and  
ran this from the command line:

php deleteOldRevisions.php  --delete

and I got this error:

X-Powered-By: PHP/4.4.4
Content-type: text/html

<br />
<b>Parse error</b>:  syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting  
T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in <b>/home/.laker/ 
redbug/pynchonwiki/wiki/includes/Exception.php</b> on line <b>139</ 
b><br />

So where did I go wrong? Thanks!

Tim

> Edit your
> * AdminSettings.sample with the correct DB-Login of the wiki to  
> delete history,
> * rename it to AdminSettings.pgp
> * use maintainence/deleteOldRevisions.php
> * But dont forget to backup before!
>
> Regards,
> Jan

Tim Ware schrieb:
 > I'm running 3 wikis off one install of v1.8.2, with 3 distinct
 > databases - each wiki has its own subdomain (I have LocalSettings.php
 > set to check which subdomain is being called and it then points to
 > the proper db and styles).
 >
 > On two of the sites I want to delete the entire history, as it's just
 > all stuff I did in prepping the wiki for launch.  But I definitely
 > don't want one of the wiki's history deleted, just the other two.
 >
 > How do I do this, either via the command line or the browser?
 >
 > Thanks!
 >
 > Tim
 >