> From: [email protected]
> 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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