Mediawiki upgrade - Revision history

Ted: Add section "Troubleshooting".

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Add section "Troubleshooting".

Ted: /* ^ Mediawiki Documentation */ add link to Mediawiki how to debug.

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^ Mediawiki Documentation: add link to Mediawiki how to debug.

Ted: Add keywords, top of document.

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Ted: Add Golang installation link to DigitalOcean article

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Ted: /* ^ Local Testing Environment */ - add note about mkcert.

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^ Local Testing Environment: - add note about mkcert.

Ted: Add sections, add medium.com post by Satish Verma about mkcert.

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Add sections, add medium.com post by Satish Verma about mkcert.

Ted: add link to Mediawiki upgrade page.

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add link to Mediawiki upgrade page.

Ted: minor formatting

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Ted: Create page for Mediawiki upgrade process notes.

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Create page for Mediawiki upgrade process notes.

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2024-03-26 Tuesday

Mediawiki Upgrade Notes

In file `RELEASE-NOTES-1.x` may be useful to search for:

692 == Upgrading notes for 1.35 ==
693 1.35 requires PHP 7.3.19 or above (up from 7.2.9). (T257879)

...this so at least in MW release 1.35. Speaks to which minimum version of PHP is needed.

In file `UPGRADE` which is part of mediawiki tarball, there is mention that for upgrades a wiki curator will want to preserve the following dirs and files from the older installation:

(1) "extensions" directory
(2) "images" directory
(3) LocalSettings.php file

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	* https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-go-on-ubuntu-20-04		* https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-go-on-ubuntu-20-04
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		+	== [[#top\|^]] Troubleshooting ==
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		+	* https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:X9lrwbosld3sbobj

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 . . . search for the phrases "Frequently asked questions" and "How hard is it to upgrade?"
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 == [[#top|^]] Local Testing Environment ==

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	Mediawiki Upgrade Notes		Mediawiki Upgrade Notes
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		+	<i>Keywords: mkcert web browser restart required</i>
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	In file `RELEASE-NOTES-1.x` may be useful to search for:		In file `RELEASE-NOTES-1.x` may be useful to search for:

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	* https://medium.com/47billion/how-to-work-with-https-on-localhost-7f1d2a11be6		* https://medium.com/47billion/how-to-work-with-https-on-localhost-7f1d2a11be6
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		+	How to install and set up Go aka Golang on Ubuntu 20.04:
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		+	* https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-go-on-ubuntu-20-04

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 == [[#top|^]] Local Testing Environment ==
-Knowledge of apache2 web server config, and SSL certificate authorities and cert generation needed to complete a localhost based testing env for Mediawiki installs and upgrades.  One blog post at medium.com regarding how to configure SSL/TLS certs:
+Knowledge of apache2 web server config, and SSL certificate authorities and cert generation needed to complete a localhost based testing env for Mediawiki installs and upgrades.  One blog post at medium.com regarding how to configure SSL/TLS certs.  Satish Verma's post talks about a util on github named mkcert:
 *  https://medium.com/47billion/how-to-work-with-https-on-localhost-7f1d2a11be6
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 (3) LocalSettings.php file<br />
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 A useful Mediawiki page with general notes on difficulty levels, and issues involved with upgrades from certain ranges of older versions is:
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 In file `UPGRADE` which is part of mediawiki tarball, there is mention that for upgrades a wiki curator will want to preserve the following dirs and files from the older installation:
+<ul>
-(1) "extensions" directory
+(1) "extensions" directory<br />
-(2) "images" directory
+(2) "images" directory<br />
-(3) LocalSettings.php file
+(3) LocalSettings.php file<br />
+</ul>
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