Warning: techie post ahead, mainly for my own future reference…<\/p>\n
Back in 2005 I set up Zappa Wiki Jawaka<\/a>, a wiki (you guessed it) dedicated to (you guessed it) Frank Zappa. Grabbed the latest MediaWiki<\/a> package and patiently went through all the loops of setting up a database, configuring php files, customizing, etc.<\/p>\n No more than one month later, Dreamhost<\/a> made MediaWiki a one-click install. Instead of having to fiddle around for hours, you now had your own wiki at the push of one button — and were able to upgrade it at the push of that same button. Alas, there I was, stuck with my own homegrown 1.4.2 install which didn’t allow for one-click upgrading.<\/p>\n Adding insult to injury, along came the spam<\/a>– and vandalbots<\/a>. My poor outdated wiki was taking a constant beating, and there was nothing I could do about it, because every single extension I tracked down required a more recent version. There was only one solution: bite the bullet and upgrade.<\/p>\n Here’s what I did:<\/p>\n No dice. The installer ran okay for about half a second, then choked, complaining that it couldn’t find a certain table within the database.<\/p>\n MediaWiki’s online manual<\/a> to the rescue: a huge forest of words and links where you tend to get lost within a minute or so. A couple of hours and liters of cafeine later, I came across a page that looked like it had the answer. It said: go to your maintenance<\/em> folder, look for two files (upgrade1_5.php<\/em> and update.php<\/em>) and run them.<\/p>\n Hurrah! I quickly pointed my browser to upgrade1_5.php<\/em> and was greeted with the following message: “this script must be run from the command line”.<\/p>\n Uh oh. Command line. Wargames<\/a>, anyone?<\/p>\n We’re now a couple of hours later, I’ve got some basic shell commands under my belt from various tutorials<\/a> and I’m staring at the Terminal<\/a>. Time for the real magic:<\/p>\n … upon which I re-ran the installer, and was greeted with a shiny “Installation complete!<\/strong>” message.<\/p>\n Hello, one-click upgrade!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Warning: techie post ahead, mainly for my own future reference… Back in 2005 I set up Zappa Wiki Jawaka, a wiki (you guessed it) dedicated to (you guessed it) Frank Zappa. Grabbed the latest MediaWiki package and patiently went through all the loops of setting up a database, configuring php files, customizing, etc. No more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moonbug.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moonbug.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moonbug.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moonbug.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moonbug.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.moonbug.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moonbug.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moonbug.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moonbug.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nssh me@mydomain.com
\nme@mydomain.com password: mypassword
\n$[server] ls
\n$[server] cd wiki.killuglyradio.com\/maintenance\/
\n$[server] php upgrade1_5.php
\n$[server] php update.php
\n<\/code><\/p>\n