MediaWIKI Upgrade: Difference between revisions

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For the database, use the command line or phpMyAdmin. phpMyAdmin makes it really easy. Select the database, export, simple, Go, save it, done.

== PHP ==

==PHP==

This is a good opportunity to upgrade PHP too. As of this writing, 5.2020, MediaWiki claims there is an issue with version 1.3.X of MediaWiki and PHP 7.4.X, so use 7.3.X

yum ~~clean~~ all

yum upgrade php73* (This will upgrade all relevant PHP version 7.3 modules if FCGI is being used)

==Upgrade (Actually Install and Copy)==

Get the latest version (FULL version, not upgrade) of MediaWiki:https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download

Before unpacking it, rename the original Directory of MediaWiki that is being upgraded to (see steps above in BackUp!)

Unpack the TAR File: tar -xvzf mediawiki-1.xy.0.tar.gz -C /var/www/html/WhatEverDirectory (Don't worry about making a mess with a lot of files as the TAR File's first item is a Directory, as it should be)

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 For the database, use the command line or phpMyAdmin.  phpMyAdmin makes it really easy.  Select the database, export, simple, Go, save it, done.
-== PHP ==
+==PHP==
 This is a good opportunity to upgrade PHP too.  As of this writing, 5.2020, MediaWiki claims there is an issue with version 1.3.X of MediaWiki and PHP 7.4.X, so use 7.3.X
-  yum clean all
+  yum upgrade php73* (This will upgrade all relevant PHP version 7.3 modules if FCGI is being used)
 ==Upgrade (Actually Install and Copy)==
 Get the latest version (FULL version, not upgrade) of MediaWiki:https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download
+Before unpacking it, rename the original Directory of MediaWiki that is being upgraded to (see steps above in BackUp!)
 Unpack the TAR File: tar -xvzf mediawiki-1.xy.0.tar.gz -C /var/www/html/WhatEverDirectory (Don't worry about making a mess with a lot of files as the TAR File's first item is a Directory, as it should be)