do you have the access to cron? Maybe you can schedule the running of
update.php script?
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Yury Katkov, WikiVote
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 8:58 PM, Mickey Feldman <mfeldman(a)vigil.com> wrote:
I'm getting ready to upgrade our (hosted)
corporate wiki from 1.161.1 to
1.21.1.
I have done an upgrade using the web interface on a local copy of our wiki -
this worked fine. The docs suggest that with a "large" wiki this could fail
due to timeouts, that the command line upgrade script is preferred, and that
if you don't have command line access you should change hosting providers to
one that allows command line access.
Changing hosts is not always an option, but it seems to me that you ought to
be able to upgrade the DB on a local machine, using the command line script
if necessary, then import that new DB structure (and data) on your host. Has
anyone tried this, and is there some reason it does not/would not work?
Also, I have found that although I don't have command line access, I can run
php scripts as cron jobs. Is there any reason the upgrade script could not
be run this way? For example, is there any point at which the upgrade script
requires/requests user input?
I have not yet tried to upgrade our hosted wiki, and I think it's likely
that the web interface will work fine, I just want to be aware of all
possible safety nets in case problems do arise.
Thanks
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Mickey Feldman
Vigil Health Solutions Inc.
2102- 4464 Markham Street
Victoria, BC Canada
V8Z 7X8
250.383.6900
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