DaqWikiManagement

Links

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Version_lifecycle
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_version_history
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Backing_up_a_wiki
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Installation_guide

Migrate and update (el7 to U-20.04)

Migrating AdWiki from daqstore (el7) to daq00 (U-20.04).

• rsync daqstore:/var/www/html/AgWiki to /home/daqweb/mediawiki/AgWiki/core
• rsync core to core-1.30 ### make a backup
• cd core
• git fetch
• refer to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Version_lifecycle to decode which version to use
• upgrade path 1.30 -> 1.31 LTS -> 1.35 LTS
• mv composer.json composer.json-1.30
• git checkout REL1_31
• cd extensions/WikiEditor, git fetch, git checkout REL1_31
• cd skins/Vector, git fetch, git checkout REL1_31
• try to load https://daq00/AgWiki, error 500
• run composer update. composer version 2 bombs, composer version 1 bombs with php error
• ssh daqstore, cd ~daqweb/mediawiki/AgWiki/core, ../../composer.phar-1.2.2 update
• try to load https://daq00/AgWiki, php error: no viable database extension found for type 'mysql'
• apt install php-mysql, same error
• edit /etc/php/7.4/apache2/php.ini, uncomment "extension=mysqli", systemctl reload apache2
• try to load https://daq00/AgWiki, php error: Cannot access the database: No such file or directory (localhost), this is correct we did not copy/migrate the mysql database yet.
• ssh daqstore, mysqldump -h localhost -u aguser -p AgWiki > backup.sql
• apt install mariadb-server
• mysql_secure_installation ### accept all default answers
• try to load https://daq00/AgWiki, php error: Cannot access the database: Access denied for user 'aguser'@'localhost' (localhost), this is correct, we did not create the user

Install (el7)

ssh ladd00
cd ~daqweb/mediawiki
rsync -av DaqWiki daqstore:/var/www/html/

ssh daqstore
cd /var/www/html
mv DaqWiki/core AgWiki
cd AgWiki
git fetch

git checkout REL1_30

cd skins/Vector
git fetch
git checkout REL1_30

cd extensions/WebEditor
git fetch
git checkout REL1_30

open https://daqstore.triumf.ca/AgWiki/ - should give an internal error, a php exception

edit LocalSettings.php

do the composer stuff

get the composer: https://getcomposer.org/download/
cd AgWiki
../composer.phar update

open https://daqstore.triumf.ca/AgWiki/ - should give an error - cannot connect to the database

configure mysql

yum install php71w-mysql

rpm -q mariadb ### mariadb-5.5.56-2.el7.x86_64

systemctl enable mariadb
systemctl start mariadb

mysql_secure_installation
# set root password
# accept all default answers

mysql -p ### enter the root password
create database `AgWiki`;
create user `agwiki` identified by `agwiki123`;
GRANT USAGE ON *.* TO 'aguser'@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'aguser123';
GRANT ALL privileges ON `AgWiki`.* TO 'aguser'@localhost;
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
show grants for 'aguser'@localhost;
exit

enter these database settings to LocalSettings.php

configure mediawiki

get rid of (rename) LocalSettings.php
open https://daqstore.triumf.ca/AgWiki/
follow the link to do the configuration
answer all the questions
answer all the additional questions
save LocalSettings.php
copy it to AgWiki

open the wiki  - login page should open, login normally

got to special pages -> version

update all the individual extensions:
cd extensions/XXX
git fetch
git checkout REL1_30 ### as appropriate
systemctl restart httpd
reload the wiki version page

make images directory writable

semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_rw_content_t '/var/www/html/AgWiki/images(/.*)?'
restorecon -Rv /var/www/html/AgWiki/images
ls -alZ /var/www/html/AgWiki/images/

additional selinux incantations

setsebool -P httpd_setrlimit 1

Misc

• MediaWiki:Sidebar edit the navigation side bar